My Review

Your Windows 11 PC Doesn't Need to Be This Slow

I spent three months thinking my laptop was dying. It took me forever to open Spotify. Chrome tabs would freeze randomly. Boot time went from 8 seconds to 45 seconds. Then I started digging, and I realized I'd done almost nothing to actually maintain the system I was using eight hours a day. The frustrating part? Most of the slowdown wasn't Windows 1…

Three Note-Taking Apps Walk Into a Productivity Crisis—Only One Survives Your Workflow

I've been using the same note-taking app for three years. Then I got frustrated. Really frustrated. The kind of frustrated where you start opening three different apps just to capture one thought, because none of them feel right anymore. So I did what I always do: I tested everything. For the past two months, I've lived inside Notion, Obsidian, and E…

7 Free VPNs That Actually Work Without Selling Your Data (Plus Why Most Others Don't)

I'm going to be honest with you right from the start: most free VPNs are garbage. Not in a dramatic way — they're just... compromised. I've tested probably fifteen of them over the last three years for various projects and client work, and the pattern is always the same. You get what you pay for, except when you don't pay anything, you often …

10 VS Code Extensions That Actually Changed How I Code

I've installed probably 80 VS Code extensions over the past three years. Most of them sit unused, cluttering my extension sidebar like browser bookmarks from 2015. But there's a small handful that genuinely made me faster, smarter, and less likely to rage-quit at 11 PM when I can't find a typo. Here are the ten I actually use every single day. No…

7 GitHub Copilot Workflows That Actually Save Time (Not Just Hype)

I've been using GitHub Copilot for about eight months now. Long enough to stop treating it like magic, start noticing where it actually helps, and admit the parts where I was wrong about it. When I first signed up, I expected it to write entire functions perfectly. That almost never happens. What *does* happen—if you know how to prompt it right—is you ca…