Windows Settings opens to a blank pane. Here’s the actual fix.
I clicked the Start button, opened Settings, and saw nothing. The window was open, the title bar said “Settings,” the sidebar had the section names, but the right pane was empty. No…
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OnlyOffice 9.3 finally treats PDF editing as a first-class job
I have been editing PDFs on Linux for about twelve years. Most of those years were bad. The good tools were paid, the free tools were limited, and the workarounds involved piping…
Rclone UI: a real graphical face for the command-line workhorse
I have been using rclone from the command line for about three years. It runs my offsite backups, syncs files between the two cloud providers I keep subscriptions with, and handles the…
The 5-Minute Kubernetes Cluster Health Check
The 5-Minute Kubernetes Cluster Health Check Kubernetes (the open-source container orchestrator that runs and schedules your applications across a fleet of machines) is great until it is not. One bad node, a…
Why LibreOffice 26.2 Feels More Stable Than Some Major Releases
Why LibreOffice 26.2 Feels More Stable Than Some Major Releases I have been using LibreOffice since it forked from OpenOffice more than a decade ago. In that time I have learned to…
I Ditched Shazam for This Open-Source App — Never Going Back
I Ditched Shazam for This Open-Source App. Never Going Back. Shazam was the first app I installed on every new phone. I have been a Shazam user for fifteen years. The app…
AI Is Not a Coworker—It is an Exoskeleton: The Mental Model That Actually Works
AI Is Not a Coworker. It Is an Exoskeleton: The Metaphor That Finally Made Sense to Me For the last two years, every product launch deck in the AI space has used…
This simple container turned my markdown files into a personal wiki
This Simple Container Turned My Markdown Files Into a Searchable Wiki I have about 400 markdown files spread across six git repos, two cloud drives, and a folder called notes-from-2023 I have…
GitMenuBar: Your Git Commands, Right Where You Need Them
GitMenuBar: Your Git Commands, Right Where You Need Them I have a love-hate relationship with the macOS menu bar. I love that it is a quiet, ambient place where useful status lives.…
Docsify: Turn Markdown into Beautiful Documentation
Docsify: Turn Markdown into Beautiful Documentation Sites I have built documentation sites with six different tools over the years. Static site generators, server-rendered platforms, wiki engines, dedicated doc tools. Most of them…