Windows already compresses games. When to use the free tool.
When you install a 100 GB game on a half-full SSD, the question is not whether you can free space. The question is which tool to use. Windows ships with compact.exe, a…
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I dropped Adobe Creative Cloud and the bill went to zero
I cancelled my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription last year, and the only regret I have is that I did not do it sooner. The full Creative Cloud suite was costing me somewhere…
Driving Blender from chat is the most fun I have had with an LLM
I have been dragging my feet on a side project for two years. I want to make a series of short explainer videos about how Unix tools work, and the missing piece…
An ESP32 retro pixel clock that earns its parts list
The makerspace corner of the internet has not gotten tired of putting clock faces on things that do not need them, and that is mostly fine. Some of those projects are honest…
Where Windows 11 hides its per-event sound picker dialog
Windows 11 is louder than most people want it to be. The default event sounds are fine for a fresh install, and they get old fast. There is also a wider problem…
Siemens spent ten years before publishing their design system
I have spent most of my career inside small companies, so the Siemens Element story catches my attention every time. A 1000 product enterprise codebase did not become a public open source…
A Claude Code workflow that survives a real Python project
Claude Code is a paid Anthropic command-line tool that reads your project, proposes code edits as diffs, and runs commands after you approve each one. It is more like a junior pair…
The aria-hidden warning is the browser overwriting your code
The Chrome accessibility tree is its own document, and that is the source of the warning you keep seeing in the console. The aria-hidden attribute (an HTML attribute that tells assistive technology…
Picking a free JavaScript framework without picking wrong
When a small team needs a JavaScript framework in 2026, the honest answer is that the choice is less expensive and more confusing than at any point in the last decade. The…
Why Windows says a file is in use when nothing is open
You know you closed the file. You saved, you hit the X, you watched the app go away. Then you try to rename or move that file and Windows tells you something…