Five changes that made Claude useful between chat sessions
My first months with Claude followed the same loop: ask a question, get a polished answer, copy part of it somewhere, then lose the useful context before the next conversation. The model…
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OpenSign: a real e-signature tool that does not charge per seat
I have been looking for a legitimate open source e-signature tool for about three years. I wanted something that did not cost $10 per user per month, did not lock my signed…
Stop Windows Update from restarting your work: a tiered guide
Windows Update is one of those background systems that works fine until it does not. The default behavior on Windows 10 and 11 is to download updates in the background and install…
Hard drive errors: how to triage before you lose the data
A failing drive rarely announces itself with a single dramatic crash. More often it whispers for weeks: a file that will not open, a save that takes five seconds longer than it…
15 terminal calendars worth installing on Linux in 2026
I keep a paper notebook for sketching and a digital calendar for everything else. The digital side lived in a browser tab for years until I wanted a calendar I could open…
Stop paying for Windows cleanup and learn Sysinternals
I have removed more paid “PC cleanup” suites from family computers than I have installed. The pattern is familiar: a yearly subscription, a red warning badge, and a dashboard that claims the…
One Android toggle buried my notification chaos
I have used Android for over a decade. Notifications are why I stayed. iPhone notifications are a joke by comparison. For years, my tray was clean, the apps I cared about floated…
Seven Ubuntu tweaks I run on every fresh install
I have installed Ubuntu on at least thirty machines in the last three years. Laptops for clients, a few home lab machines, two of my own. The first thing I do on…
Three open-source whiteboards with no account and no server
Whiteboard tools have multiplied over the last three years, and most of them require an account, send your data to a server, or both. The three below do neither. They are self-hostable,…
One UI 8.5 finally made DeX worth plugging in for
I have been running Samsung DeX (Samsung’s desktop mode that runs on a phone when you plug it into a display) for about six years on three different Galaxy phones. The first…