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#windows-notepad

Voice interaction with Claude Code significantly enhances the user experience by allowing for faster input. Speaking is often 2-3 times quicker than typing, which can streamline the process of giving commands.

What started in 2019 as a couple of utilities for things like window and shortcut management has gradually expanded to nearly 30 useful tools, including a keyboard shortcut creator, an image-to-text extractor, and a better search bar than the one that's built into Windows proper. PowerToys has become wildly popular among Windows power users, with more than 70 million downloads to date, but it's also completely free, with no ads, Office upsells, or ham-fisted Copilot integrations.

Microsoft PC Manager, which first appeared in beta form in 2022, and is now available for free to anyone who wants to give it a try. Microsoft promises it "effortlessly enhances PC performance with just one click," and will "keep your PC running smoothly." In other words, it's intended to clean up some of the clutter and baggage that your PC may have accumulated over the years.

I've always found traditional visual HTML editors frustrating because they force you into rigid grid systems. To solve this, I spent the last 1,800 hours building HtmlDrag ( https://htmldrag.com/). It's a "freeform" editor that feels more like Figma or Photoshop but outputs production-ready HTML. Key Features: True Drag-and-Drop: Move elements anywhere on the canvas without grid constraints. URL Import: Import any live website via URL and edit its layout visually. Clean Code Export: No proprietary tags, just clean HTML/CSS.

The core appeal of the Codex app is its ability to multitask. Instead of talking to one AI at a time, developers can run multiple coding agents in parallel. Each task is kept in its own "worktree," meaning the agents can tinker with the code simultaneously without creating a tangled mess of conflicting changes.

Using AI to help download photos so we can consolidate all our images into one place. Over the years, [Audrey](https://audrey.feldroy.com) and I have accumulated photos across a variety of services. Flickr, SmugMug, and others all have chunks of our memories sitting on their servers. Some of these services we haven't touched in years, others we pay for but rarely use. It was time to bring everything home.

NotebookLM is quietly becoming one of the most powerful tools for serious thinking work; yet most people use only a fraction of its potential. If you work with research, strategy, product thinking, or complex data research & analysis, NotebookLM can dramatically improve the quality of your decisions. I've demonstrated what NotebookLM is capable of in the article NotebookLM for Product Designers.

Here's the sad truth about sports score apps: Most of them aren't all that interested in actually telling you the score. After all, where's the money in providing straightforward information like that? The modern sports score app has to do more. It must bombard you with banner ads and betting odds, implore you to create an account and opt into notifications, sell you some tickets, and show some videos to keep engagement up. The scores themselves are an afterthought.

Microsoft is making it a lot faster and easier to add links to text inside Word documents. Instead of having to open a menu item to insert a link or use the CTRL + K keyboard shortcut, you can now simply paste a link on top of the text you want to hyperlink. This new feature reduces the amount of clicks you need to do an everyday task like linking URLs, and it works across Word for the web, Windows, and Mac.

After a week vibe coding apps using Nothing's Essential Apps Builder, I'm conflicted. I buy into the smartphone maker's vision for software that adapts to you, not the other way around, but right now it doesn't deliver. It's hard to see how this goes from cool novelty to a reliable tool without serious refinement, and a level of consumer patience it may struggle to find.

The reason for this is Snap - a Linux application packaging format - creates a local Trash folder for each VS Code version, one that's separate from the system-managed Trash, according to a VS Code bug report dating back to November 11, 2024. Not only that, but Snap keeps older versions of VS Code after updates, potentially multiplying the number of local Trash folders and the trashed-but-not-deleted files therein. Emptying the system Trash folder doesn't affect the local instances.

In the past, programmers worked with platform-specific, fast, lightweight native code editors, but beautiful, cross-platform, hybrid code editors changed everyone's minds - programmers started using heavyweight hybrid editors on their powerful hardware. They started upgrading hardware continuously to run these heavyweight hybrid code editors solely because of their modern look and feel, trend, and productivity-focused features. That's how VSCode became the software industry's default code editor.