Poking Around Until Something Breaks (And Then Reporting It to Microsoft) with Morten Mynster

About this episode

Morten Mynster discusses his journey in open-source PowerShell development and the impact of AI on learning and career opportunities.

Andrew welcomes back Morten Mynster for a follow-up conversation that's essentially a highlight reel of one Morten's public journey over the past year. Morten shares updates on three PowerShell modules he's released, including his standout LeastPrivilegedMSGraph module, and walks through a security issue he discovered and responsibly reported to Microsoft. Along the way, Andrew and Morten reflect on how putting your work out publicly can lead to unexpected career wins, how AI is reshaping the way people learn and write code, and why getting hands-on is still the best way to actually understand anything. Morten is also two weeks into a new job as a cybersecurity consultant, which came directly from his open-source work.Key Takeaways: Publishing your work publicly, even to a small audience, creates opportunities that a resume never could. Morten landed a job offer without ever applying, simply because someone found his module on LinkedIn. The best way to learn something technical is still to get hands-on with it. Reading about it is rarely enough, whether that's PowerShell, APIs, or anything else in IT. AI is a powerful accelerator, but over-relying on it without a foundational…

People in this episode

Host: Andrew

Guest: Morten Mynster

Topics covered

• PowerShell
• cybersecurity
• open-source
• AI in coding
• career development

Keywords

• PowerShell
• cybersecurity
• LeastPrivilegedMSGraph
• AI
• open-source

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft, PDQ.com

Products: LeastPrivilegedMSGraph

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