The script library
PowerShell and automation, with the context behind the code.
A small Python script that stitches Markdown chapters into a single clean HTML book with a title page, linked contents, chapter breaks, curly quotes and proper scene breaks.
Tools for the writing desk · Note 1 ↗Politely close your open apps (and, if you ask, tray apps and named services) to free up memory before a game or a long render, while Windows, your security software and the terminal you're typing in stay put.
Spring cleaning for Windows PCs · Note 10 ↗Walk a folder once and get every subfolder's file count and total size in tree order, ready to sort, filter or save as a CSV.
File wrangling · Note 8 ↗Move CBZ and CBR files, or whole series folders, into genre or decade folders using a series list you keep in a spreadsheet, then list what didn't match and check nothing went missing.
Keeping a media library tidy · Note 2 ↗Take a restore point, repair the component store with DISM, then run SFC, and get one object back that says what each step found instead of three screens of scrolling text.
Spring cleaning for Windows PCs · Note 9 ↗Install Bun if it's missing, install the open-source Grok CLI globally, and save your xAI API key as a user environment variable from a hidden prompt instead of a line in a script.
PowerShell craft · Note 8 ↗Shrink a folder of photos or screenshots to WebP with cwebp or NConvert, keep the originals unless you say otherwise, and see how much each file saved.
File wrangling · Note 7 ↗Check every book and comic file's real format from its first few bytes, rename the ones that lie, find identical copies by hash, and file whatever is loose in the library root.
Keeping a media library tidy · Note 1 ↗Find the servicing packages behind a KB number, including cumulative updates that hide it, remove them with DISM, keep a transcript, and optionally hide the update so it doesn't come straight back.
Windows Update, untangled · Note 10 ↗Write the folders you want as an indented outline, or paste the output of tree, and create the whole structure in one go without moving a single file.
File wrangling · Note 6 ↗A small Windows Forms pop-up that appears at logon when a PC has been up for more than a week, with a Later button and a Restart now button that asks before it does anything.
Spring cleaning for Windows PCs · Note 8 ↗One script that dumps a WordPress database and zips the site files into a dated folder, with the password kept off the command line and a -WhatIf that really works.
The WordPress toolbox · Note 3 ↗
