2023 was quite the year for me and PowerShell, so I thought I would put together a brief summary of the year as I saw it. Plus provide you with some fun and interesting statics from the PowerShell Weekly newsletter.
This year was also a huge year for me. My book Practical Automation with PowerShell was released in April. This book aims to help you take your PowerShell skills to the next level and create full enterprise-ready automations. It was a real labor of lover to share my experiences in automation with the world. And I hope everyone who has read it has found it useful.
I’m looking forward to 2024 where I plan on making some major updates to some of my community module, publish more blog content, and in general continue my journey with PowerShell and technology in general. But I know most of you aren’t here to read about me, so here is my recap of some of the highlights from this year.
PowerShell Platform
• PowerShell 7.4 was made generally available in November and is now built on .NET 8.
• The new package manager, PSResourceGet was released and is now included in PowerShell 7.4.
• Microsoft Graph modules have now officially replaced the Azure AD modules.
• There were also new releases for PSReadLine and Crescendo.
Community
• The PowerShell Podcast is still going strong with weekly releases and are almost up to 100 episodes.
• The Pacific PowerShell User Group was started, and many local user groups are still going strong. Most notably the New York PowerShell Meetup and Research Triangle PowerShell User Group. (If you know of other PowerShell user groups please let me know and I’ll add them here.)
• This year was also my time presenting at the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit. It was great getting to meet so many member of the community in person. Be sure to check out the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2023 playlist on YouTube for my presentation and all of the others. And don’t forget to purchase your tickets to the 2024 summit.
PowerShell Weekly by the Numbers
For those who aren’t aware PowerShell Weekly is a weekly collection of PowerShell news, blogs, scripts, and other related media from world the web, that I found useful and wanted to share. With this being the end of the year, I thought I would share some interesting insights and numbers from 2023. Start with the number:
689
The total number of links this year
301
The number of unique contributors
140
The number of unique sites
Top Links
• Completion Predictor v0.1.1 Release by The PowerShell Team (231 – clicks)
• How to Create a Powershell Form Generator by Fabio De Oliveira (193 – clicks)
• PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code Spring 2023 Update by The PowerShell Team (153 – clicks)
• Building your own Terminal Status Bar in PowerShell by mdgrs (145 – clicks)
• Automatically convert a PowerShell command to use splatting by Mike F. Robbins (116 – clicks)
• PowerShell KeePass and saving time. by Emil Larsson (115 – clicks)
• Increase maturity of PowerShell script with Mermaid diagram by Wiktor Mrowczynski (115 – clicks)
• Best Practices Make Perfect by Jeff Hicks (110 – clicks)
• POSH by James Brundage (110 – clicks)
• How to optimize and speed up your PowerShell scripts by Bas Wijdenes (103 – clicks)
I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season and I will see you all again in 2024.