Some utilities that I use in my journalism work. They help with everything from surveying public sources and doing meaningful data analysis to gig tracking and invoicing automation.
AKA my Essential Windows apps
- system accent color: #ff1e62
- code snippets that follow are meant to be used in PowerShell, unless stated otherwise
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
- run with elevated privileges
choco install git.install
- this method requires Chocolatey
- it also requires pointing Windows to a Git installation using the Path environmental variable
winget install Microsoft.PowerToys --source winget