DevOps

How Curiosity About the Snapdragon NPU Turned Into HK NPU STUDIO

Local AI for Snapdragon® PCs Your Hardware • Your AI • Your Control Developing software is rarely a straight line. Sometimes it feels like progress,…

Wi-Fi or VPN sign-in failing after a Windows update? What to check

When a user says their Wi-Fi or VPN stopped working after an update, there are quite a few things to check. Drivers, connection profiles, credential…

Entra Seamless SSO Not Working: A Read-First Intranet Zone, Kerberos Ticket, and AZUREADSSOACC Triage

Helpdesk: "Outlook on the web used to just open on my desk PC. Now it asks for my password every morning." A second ticket from the same floor: the…

Intune Microsoft 365 Apps Not Installing: A Read-First MSI, CDN, and Office CSP Error Triage

Helpdesk: a Required Microsoft 365 Apps assignment sits on Install pending or Waiting for install status for hours. Another device shows Failed . Ou…

Send Files to Linux With a Drag-and-Drop Widget

KiwiDrop lets you drop a file onto a floating desktop widget and send it to a paired device on the local network. It supports Windows, Linux, and An…

Nextcloud Slow? Mount It as a Local Drive Instead

If you've installed Nextcloud and the desktop sync client feels like 2008 software, you're not alone. The sync-everything model breaks down fast: 50…

Building a free Windows AI assistant: one window for cloud and local models

We're a small team in Granada (Spain) and we've been building Cerewro, a Windows 10/11 desktop app that lets you talk to several AI models from a si…

Intune Remediation Script Not Running: A Read-First Exit Code, Context, and HealthScripts.log Triage

You wrote a detection script and a remediation script, uploaded them as a script package under Devices > Manage devices > Scripts and remediat…

Works on desktop, fails on phones: the post-quantum TLS bug hiding in your network card

Modern browsers now send a larger TLS hello. On some Windows servers, a receive-offload bug in the network card silently breaks about half of those…

Batch .bat in 2026: Legacy Glue, Not a Personality

I still write .bat files in 2026. I also refuse to build an identity around them. That distinction— legacy glue vs personality —is the retrospective…

PowerShell Out-File vs Set-Content: Encoding Is the Real Difference

Set-Content and Out-File both put text into a file. On a quiet English UTF-8 machine they look interchangeable. On a Czech log, a CSV opened in Exce…

"Your Organization Has Disabled This Device" (AADSTS135011): A Read-First Entra Device Triage

A user opens Outlook or Word and gets "Something went wrong. Your organization has disabled this device. To fix this, contact your system administra…

BitLocker Recovery Key Missing from Intune or Entra: A Read-First Escrow Triage

Helpdesk has a locked laptop and a recovery prompt. You open Intune admin center > Devices > [device] > Recovery keys (or Entra admin cente…

374 tests went in, 352 came out, and the build was green

The last run had 374 tests. This one had 352. No failures, so the build was green. Twenty-two checks had disappeared. The test host died partway thr…

The UTF-8 / Code Page Surprise That Corrupted My Log Parser

The UTF-8 / Code Page Surprise That Corrupted My Log Parser The parser wasn’t wrong. The bytes were fine. My shell lied about what “text” meant—and…

Vodka, или почему nginx.exe у нас в шесть раз быстрее, чем под Wine

Всем привет! Вторая статья про революционный проект Vodka, где будут реальные замеры производительности nginx.exe . А ещё на этот раз я более подроб…

Microsoft Puts a Petaflop on Your Desk: Windows Goes All-In on Local AI

Microsoft Puts a Petaflop on Your Desk: Windows Goes All-In on Local AI For two years, the loudest argument in personal computing has been about whe…

Office 2021 vor dem Aus: Was nach dem Support-Ende passiert und was Nutzer jetzt tun sollten

Microsoft hat das Support-Ende von Office 2021 mitgeteilt. In Kürze bekommt das Programm keinerlei Updates mehr. Warum sich Nutzer:innen deshalb nac…

TASK#STOMP: A Windows Backdoor That Lives in Scheduled Tasks and VBS

TASK#STOMP: A Windows Backdoor That Lives in Scheduled Tasks and VBS Securonix published an analysis of TASK#STOMP, a Windows backdoor that uses onl…

Computer inventory software: how to choose

Once an office has more than twenty computers, an Excel spreadsheet can't keep up with reality, and you need computer inventory software. There's pl…

PowerShell Measure-Object: Count Lines and Sum Folder Sizes in One Line

The PowerShell Measure-Object cmdlet turns a pile of output into a number. How many lines are in this log? How much disk does this folder eat? What'…

Why Windows 11 Gets Slow After an Update

An update may be related to a slowdown, or it may be coincidence: Windows could still be finishing background work, a startup app may have changed,…

A Windows context menu editor in one PowerShell file

The Windows right-click menu is built from several different places, and Windows 11 hides half of it behind "Show more options". Most tools I found…

PowerShell Test-Path: Check a Path Exists Before You Act

The PowerShell Test-Path cmdlet answers one question: does this path exist? Use it before you read, write, delete, or create — so your script fails…

WSL containers are now generally available

PowerShell Get-Content: Tail the Last Lines of Any Log

The PowerShell Get-Content cmdlet reads text from a file. For day-to-day ops you rarely need the whole file — you need the last few lines of a growi…

How to delete node_modules on Windows (safely, and for good)

If you've cloned more than a handful of JavaScript projects, there's a good chance tens of gigabytes of your drive are sitting inside folders named…

Docker Desktop taking too much space on Windows? Here's the fix

You've run docker system prune , deleted old images, and your C: drive still hasn't gotten any smaller. This isn't a bug — it's how Docker Desktop's…

WSL2 disk keeps growing? Here's how to shrink it

If you use WSL2 for any length of time, you've probably noticed this: you delete files, clear caches, even uninstall packages inside your Linux dist…

Why I Wrote Our Windows Endpoint Security Agent in Rust

An endpoint security agent has an awkward job. It runs on every machine you protect, usually with elevated privileges, around the clock. It parses u…