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Fish is the Bash alternative all beginner programmers should use
This shell’s approachability and clever features will make your coding life easier.
Your homelab's best quality-of-life upgrade isn't what you think it is
Once you host more than a handful of services, a reverse proxy becomes your best friend.
This hidden Excel upgrade fixes messy, oversized spreadsheets
Power Pivot connects multiple tables in Excel, turning scattered data into a scalable model without merging everything manually.
Replace Spotify Premium with Jellyfin and these 3 plugins
"Mom, can we get Spotify?" "We have Spotify at home."
Gemini just made it much easier to turn ideas into real files
Copy-pasting AI responses into documents might be a thing of the past.
Power Query's real superpower isn't cleaning data—it's combining it without formulas
Replace repetitive copy-paste work by automatically combining, joining, and importing data directly inside Excel.
I replaced PowerPoint with Canva, and I'm not going back
I replaced PowerPoint with Canva and haven’t looked back. It’s faster, easier, and surprisingly powerful for everyday presentations.
Notepad++ is finally available on the Mac, 23 years later
The beloved text editor no longer needs a kludge to work.
The tiny open-source apps that somehow became essential (and you've probably never heard of them)
Stop using bloated tools—these 5 tiny open-source apps quietly solve problems nobody else bothers to fix and do more with less.
I finally ditched Photoshop and Canva for this now-free tool, and I wish I'd done it sooner
Photoshop finally has real competition.
The 5 stages of becoming a true Excel power user
What starts as simple number tracking gradually becomes a journey into logic, visualization, automation, and data architecture.
These 7 Bash tricks will change how you use the terminal
Bash hides a lot of shortcuts in plain sight. Here are seven that'll cut your typing in half.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a USB drive full of files
Your gigabit network is slower than this $15 pocket-sized hardware hack
PowerToys 0.99 makes it easier to drag windows and manage monitor settings
Two new utilities fixing everyday annoyances along with smaller tweaks across the toolkit.
Why digital archivists chose a comic book format over everything else
Comics and magazines can disappear easily. This format seeks to preserve them and make them easier to read.
Excel finally fixed its worst problems—but you're still using the old workarounds
Excel has quietly gained dynamic arrays, XLOOKUP, Power Query, and Python, yet many still work the old way.
I tried to go passwordless with passkeys, here’s why it didn’t hold up in practice
A transition that feels simpler than it really is!
This free Obsidian sync setup is better than Obsidian Premium
No Syncthing or RemotelySync required.
I finally automated Excel timestamps, and it fixed my biggest data trust problem
Excel's Power Query lets you build report-level and table-level timestamps that update on refresh.