Joel Bennett Jaykul

This is barely worth sharing, but you can, for instance, get everything pinned to the taskbar, and unpin it from the start menu

Get-Application -PinnedToTaskbar | UnpinStart

Huge Caveat: I haven't figured this all out.

I can't figure out a way to get the order of the taskbar items...
Many items don't have the "pin to taskbar" verb when called this way (I don't know why) and you have to do something ridiculous like making a shortcut to them first (thus, the task bar folder) and then pin that.

When I'm having a bad day, I can spend hours just fiddling with colors and recursion ...

Today I wrote an HslEnumerator class which is fun because if you output it to the PowerShell terminal it just goes on producing colors forever:

[HslEnumerator][PoshCode.Pansies.RgbColor]"Goldenrod" | Format-Wide 30 # I do have a wide screen

But I also made something more fun. Out-Colors will colorize tables or lists with fun HSL rainbows...

	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	gcixels is like gci, but with sixels...
	.DESCRIPTION
	Shows thumbnails of images with titles, directly in terminal.
	However, it's done with ImageMagick montage, so it's awfully slow.
	Just sharing it for your inspiration.
	.NOTES
	Requires ImageMagick and a Sixel terminal (like Windows Terminal 1.22+ or WezTerm)
	#>

	#requires -Modules Metadata
	function Get-PowerShellConfig {
	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	Get the PowerShell.config.json as a hashtable
	.EXAMPLE
	Get-PowerShellConfig

	Returns the user's PowerShell Config (usually just what experiments you've enabled)
	.EXAMPLE

	function Start-Application {
	param($Name)
	if (!($Command = @(Get-Command $Name -CommandType Application -ErrorAction Ignore)[0])) {
	$Command = foreach ($Package in Get-AppxPackage $Name) {
	($Package \| Get-AppxPackageManifest).Package.Applications.Application.Executable \| % {
	Join-Path -Path $Package.InstallLocation -ChildPath $_
	} \| Get-Command
	}
	}
	& $Command

	function Convert-RTTTL {
	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	Convert Nokia RTTL to VT256 DEC PS (PlaySound) escape sequences for Windows Terminal, for instance.
	.EXAMPLE
	Convert-RTTTL 'Mario World Theme:d=4,o=5,b=125:a,8f.,16c,16d,16f,16p,f,16d,16c,16p,16f,16p,16f,16p,8c6,8a.,g,16c,a,8f.,16c,16d,16f,16p,f,16d,16c,16p,16f,16p,16a#,16a,16g,2f,16P,8a.,8f.,8c,8a.,f,16g#,16f,16c,16p,8g#.,2g,8a.,8f.,8c,8a.,f,16g#,16f,8c,2c6' -InformationAction Continue

	Plays the Mario World Theme song (and show the name in the console).
	.EXAMPLE
	Convert-RTTTL 'HauntHouse: d=4,o=6,b=108: 2a5, 2e, 2d#, 2b5, 2a5, 2c, 2d, 2a#5, 2e., e, 1f5, 1a5, 1d#, 2e., d, 2c., b5, 1a5, 1p, 2a5, 2e, 2d#, 2b5, 2a5, 2c, 2d, 2a#5, 2e., e, 1f5, 1a5, 1d#, 2e., d, 2c., b5, 1a5' \| Set-Clipboard

	$global:Suggestion = Get-Completion "This is my question"
	$global:InjectCommand = Register-EngineEvent -SourceIdentifier PowerShell.OnIdle {
	[Microsoft.PowerShell.PSConsoleReadLine]::Insert($global:Suggestion)
	Stop-Job $global:InjectCommand # This removes the event
	}

	[CmdletBinding()]
	param(
	# Limit the number of results
	[int]$Top
	)

	$Tokens = @()
	$Names = @{}
	foreach ($history in [Microsoft.PowerShell.PSConsoleReadLine]::GetHistoryItems()) {
	$null = [System.Management.Automation.Language.Parser]::ParseInput($history.CommandLine, [ref]$Tokens, [ref]$null)

	class EncodingAttribute : System.Management.Automation.ArgumentTransformationAttribute {
	[object] Transform([System.Management.Automation.EngineIntrinsics]$engineIntrinsics, [object] $inputData) {
	if ( $inputData -is [string] ) {
	return [Text.Encoding]::GetEncoding($inputData)
	} else {
	return $inputData
	}
	}
	}