Top and side taskbar placement lands in Windows 11 testing
For most of the Windows 11 era, the taskbar has had exactly one legal home: the bottom edge of the screen. That is changing. Windows Central reports that the latest Insider Preview…
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How to actually do GDPR compliance without losing a week
GDPR compliance is the kind of topic where a lot of guides oversell the difficulty. The real work is not glamorous. Most of it is sitting down with a list and confirming…
Terminal batch renamers that earn their place in your toolbox
If you have ever sat in front of a folder full of IMG_20260814_xxx.jpg files and typed a for loop in bash to rename them, you have already written the kind of code…
5 free VPNs worth your time and which one I’d actually keep
I paid for a VPN for three years before I realized I was using the free version of the same product 80% of the time. That confession is the most useful thing…
How I built a hybrid book recommender with Python and Streamlit
Audiobooks are a problem of too much choice. Audible’s catalogue runs into the tens of thousands of titles across self-help, business, fiction, fantasy, technology, history, and several more genres I have never…
Why the Pixel 10 is the smarter buy compared to the Pixel 11
Look, the Pixel 11 leaks are everywhere right now and everyone is acting like the world is ending if you don’t preorder one. Put the phone down. The Pixel 10 is sitting…
I learned Apple Maps by broken-screen: a working tour of every icon
I switched to Apple Maps after a rental car came with CarPlay built in and I didn’t want to fiddle with Google Maps over a rental phone. That sounds like a small…
Building a client-side PDF inverter with PDF.js and PDF-lib
Most PDF readers let you adjust brightness, but very few will invert every color on every page and give you a clean, downloadable file. The freeCodeCamp tutorial by Bhavin Sheth walks through…
Free VPNs ranked by what they actually cost you in 2026
A free VPN (virtual private network, a service that encrypts your traffic and routes it through a remote server to mask your IP address and location) sounds like the safest deal on…
how to give a GitHub Actions workflow only the permissions it uses
A workflow that builds, tests, and deploys your code can also push tags, write to package registries, and rewrite release notes, all without anyone noticing. GitHub Actions will happily run a job…