Ditched the Bloatware Last Month — My Windows 11 Actually Feels Fast Now
My Windows 11 PC was dying. Not literally — it still booted, still ran Office, still played YouTube. But it felt sluggish in that invisible way that makes you hate opening your laptop. Everything took an extra second. Apps loaded like they were thinking about it first. I was blaming Microsoft, blaming the hardware, blaming the universe. Then I actually spent …
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Why Your Note-Taking App Is Probably Costing You More Than It Should
I've been using the same three note-taking apps for the past eighteen months, switching between them based on what I'm doing at any given moment. Some days I'm in Notion for three hours straight. Other days I touch Obsidian once and never come back. Evernote? It sits there doing almost nothing . The problem with most note-taking app reviews is tha…
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Free VPNs Are Risky. But Here's How to Use Them Safely If You Must
Let me be straight with you: I don't trust free VPNs. Not fully. I've tested at least 15 of them over the past three years, and almost every single one has made me uncomfortable at some point—either through sketchy logging practices, surprise ads, or just the creeping feeling that if I'm not paying, I'm the product. But here's the thing: I…
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Six Months of Daily Coding Without These Extensions Felt Like Working With One Hand
===TITLE=== Six Months of Daily Coding Without These Extensions Felt Like Working With One Hand ===CONTENT=== I'm not exaggerating. When I first switched to VS Code from Sublime Text back in 2019, I used it bare. No extensions. Just the editor, a terminal, and pure stubbornness. I lasted about a week before I felt like I was moving in slow motion. The th…
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Can GitHub Copilot Actually Make You Code Faster, or Is It Just Hype?
I was skeptical. Genuinely skeptical. When GitHub Copilot first hit the market, I heard all the usual startup noise — "AI will write your code," "10x developer productivity," that kind of thing. I'd seen enough overhyped tools to know better. But after three months of using it daily across Python, JavaScript, and some messy legacy PHP…
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