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Stop trusting Google Drive with your backups and do this instead

Sync isn't backup.

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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.

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Ugreen NAS and Geekom mini PCs on a wooden homelab shelf.
Your homelab's best quality-of-life upgrade isn't what you think it is
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Once you host more than a handful of services, a reverse proxy becomes your best friend.

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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.

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Replace Spotify Premium with Jellyfin and these 3 plugins

"Mom, can we get Spotify?" "We have Spotify at home."

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Gemini Suite Logo on black background.
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.

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Laptop screen showing Microsoft Excel's Power Query Editor with a query.
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.

Canva app on a Pixel 6.
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.

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Notepad++ is finally available on the Mac, 23 years later

The beloved text editor no longer needs a kludge to work.

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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.

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Affinity open on a Surface Laptop 4.
I finally ditched Photoshop and Canva for this now-free tool, and I wish I'd done it sooner

Photoshop finally has real competition.

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A man looking happy while holding a laptop running Excel.
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.

Tux, the Linux mascot, wearing sunglasses and peeking from behind a large terminal window displaying globbing commands.
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.

Person's hand putting a USB drive in a laptop port.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a USB drive full of files

Your gigabit network is slower than this $15 pocket-sized hardware hack

Illustration of the Microsoft PowerToys logo surrounded by interface snippets showing features like Paste as Plain Text, Color Picker, and Dark Mode.
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.

Several comics and a few omnibus editions are fanned out on a tabletop
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.

The Excel logo coming out of a lightbulb with colorful sparkles around it.
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.

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Illustration of a secure vault surrounded by keys, password dots, and lock icons.
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!

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Person holding a smartphone running Obsidian next to a laptop displaying its logo, with a sync icon connecting both devices.
This free Obsidian sync setup is better than Obsidian Premium

No Syncthing or RemotelySync required.

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Laptop screen showing a Power Query output in Excel and a cell labeled Query Last Updated.
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.

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