Supercharging Your Productivity with PSProfile

By Nate Ferrell

Elevator Pitch

Finding that your PowerShell profile has become a mass of various settings to initialize and scripts to invoke for each session? Building modules with classes or DLLs and want to avoid session regeneration? Working with Git repos and want to quickly navigate between them? PSProfile is built for you!

Description

PSProfile is designed to house your PowerShell profile configuration as a single file with some quality-of-life enhancements that focus on making your time in the PowerShell console as focused and efficient as possible. It is designed to wrap anything you would normally have in your existing PowerShell profile into a portable configuration file, while also adding some huge quality-of-life improvements to common actions performed in your console.

This demo will cover how PSProfile can elevate your productivity from PowerShell User to Power User with topics around…

  • Project switching with argument completers
  • Prompt management
  • Secret storage and retrieval
  • Extending PSProfile by writing your own plugins
  • Profile configuration portability
  • Making Visual Studio Code’s CLI tool even more powerful

PSProfile is a module created by Nate Ferrell (SCRT HQ), creator of other modules such as PSGSuite, VaporShell, and PEMEncrypt.

Notes

PSProfile is a module I wrote as a central tool to combine a few smaller tools I was using personally for productivity. It is designed for everyone to use, whether you are a long-time PowerShell user or just getting started.