My Review

4 Automation Tools That Actually Saved Me Hours This Week

I spent three hours last Tuesday doing something a computer should've done in thirty seconds. Copying data from one spreadsheet to another, renaming fifty files, sending the same email template to different clients. My own stupidity, really — I knew automation existed, but I kept putting it off. "It'll take too long to set up," I told mysel…

Free Password Managers Are Actually Good Enough — Here's When to Pay

I spent the last three months testing password managers like someone who actually needs to remember more than five passwords. You know, like normal people do. Here's the uncomfortable truth: the free tier of most password managers will solve 90% of your problems. The paid versions exist mostly to extract money from people who already made the hard choice…

Can You Actually Build a Real Website Without Spending Money?

I spent ₹15,000 on a website builder in 2015. Then I realized I could've done it free. That's the story I'm about to save you from living. Look, I get it. You want a website but the word "free" makes you suspicious. And rightfully so—most free website builders are either so limited they're useless or so bloated with ads they look u…

4 Linux Distros That Actually Work for Beginners (And 2 You Should Skip)

Let me be honest: most "beginner Linux distro" articles are written by people who haven't actually watched a beginner struggle with Linux in 2025. They throw Ubuntu at everyone, call it a day, and move on. But Ubuntu has changed. A lot. Some of those changes are good. Some are... not. And there are distros out there now that genuinely make the …

7 Things Google Colab Does Better Than Your Laptop (and 3 Where It Falls Short)

I spent three months last year telling everyone Google Colab was "basically free cloud computing magic." Then I actually tried building a real machine learning pipeline on it. Turns out, it's more nuanced than that. Here's what I learned: Colab isn't a replacement for your setup. It's a specific tool that's genuinely excellent f…