XDA Developers

I tried Claude Code, VS Code, and a local LLM as a note-taking app, and only one worked

Note-taking apps have a habit of promising you organization, then handing the actual organizing back to you anyway. Obsidian ...

5 apps I always install on new Windows PCs – and most are free

Finally, Microsoft’s free PowerToys earns a spot on every PC I buy and use. Available freely from the Microsoft Store and ...

For those using AI to write articles on note and X: A step-by-step guide to creating a single 'Personal Writing Style Memo'

This article is for office workers who use AI to draft posts on note or X.Do you recognize any of these concerns? Every time ...

For those who find it hard to locate notes when increasing sessions: Decoding the per-session notepad for Claude Code

Increased sessions and notes with nowhere to goWhen you have multiple sessions open in parallel with Claude Code, things you ...
PCMag Australia

Using Passwords in 2026 Is a Massive Risk. Here's What Hackers Don't Want You Doing Instead

Traditional logins are officially obsolete. Learn how passkeys work, why hackers hate them, and the simple cookie trick to ...
XDA Developers

Notepad can't handle large files, but this lightweight alternative handles them instantly

Notepad is an application that everyone knows, if only because it has been around since the earliest days of Windows. That's not an exaggeration, either; it first launched as Multi-Tool Notepad in ...

How I built the writing app I needed in 2 hours for free – with Ollama and VS Code

I'm not a developer, but I was able to use locally-installed AI to create a writing app suited to my needs. Here's how.
How-To Geek

Writing bad code made me twice as productive—but it came with a catch

"If it works, don't touch it" is a well-known meme in the programming community. I'm glad that it's just that. A meme. Bad code didn't make me a worse developer. It made me faster, because I learned ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Stack Overflow 2026 Survey: VS Code Leads, Visual Studio Takes Third

Microsoft's editors remain prominent in the 2026 developer survey, while GitHub Copilot trails Claude Code and ASP.NET Core ranks fourth among web technologies.
XDA Developers on MSN

I replaced VS Code and Notepad++ with this one free open-source editor, and I haven't looked back

After years of using two editors, I finally found one that could handle both jobs.
MUO on MSN

I gave Claude Code access to my note-taking tool and stopped doing everything in my workspace manually

Claude Code can now search my entire note-taking system, not just my repo.