Chrissy LeMaire

A GitHub Action for backing up your Mastodon account 🐘 Backup on a schedule or on-demand.

This repo contains importable CSV files with the Mastodon addresses of Data Platform, PowerShell and Power BI Twitter communities. This project is important because Twitter is quickly becoming an unsafe space for many of us in the community.

This PowerShell-based GitHub Action helps Twitter communities find members on Mastodon. Searches lists, hashtags, account followers and more for Mastodon links and exports them to an importable CSV file.

This PowerShell-based GitHub Action imports CSV files to Mastodon for follows, mutes, bookmarks and more. Goes hand-in-hand with Exodus in helping Communities migrate to safer spaces.

This article outlines how GitHub Pages can enable people in the Fediverse, including Mastodon, to have a portable social media identify using aliases. For instance, I am cl@tech.lgbt but searching for cl@dbatools.io will also surface my account. This allows me to add cl@dbatools.io to all of my presentations and if I ever move from the tech.lgbt server, it won't matter. I also get to keep my association/identity with dbatools.

GitHub had to remove Docker from the macOS images because of licensing issues. This required some time-consuming, inelegant workarounds. This blog post outlines how to do it quickly, simply and beautifully, in only two lines of code!

mssqlsuite is a GitHub Action that makes it easy to install and start a SQL Server instance on the Linux, Windows and macOS runners. Most recently, I sped up macOS-runner by implementing colima instead of VirtualBox and merged support for the newly released SQL Server 2022

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