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Intune Assignment Filter Not Working: A Read-First Filter Evaluation, Include/Exclude, and Property Triage
Helpdesk: "We put an assignment filter on the Wi-Fi profile so only corporate Surface devices get it. Half the Surfaces still don't have Wi-Fi, and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Меня достала реклама, и я сделал свой торрент-клиент для Windows
Меня достала реклама в торрент-клиентах. Хотелось открывать программу, выбирать нужные файлы и оставлять загрузку в фоне. Так появился Tern: бесплат…
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…
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…
Гига Писарь: первый пулреквест на Windows и Мозг со своим ключом в облаке
Привет, Хабр! После того как я выпустил Писаря для Windows, скачали его уже больше трёхсот раз, спасибо всем, кто поставил, попробовал и написал, чт…
Chosen Brick and HEAVYGRAM: Iranian Spyware That Reports Through Telegram
Chosen Brick and HEAVYGRAM: Iranian Spyware That Reports Through Telegram On 15 September 2026, the UK National Cyber Security Centre, the FBI and t…
Гига Писарь теперь и на Windows
В прошлой статье я подвёл итоги первых полутора недель и повесил опрос. По итогам голосования я понял, что у большинства не мак, могу предположить,…
Building a slide-aware presentation timer for PowerPoint and WPS
FlyPPTTimer v1.17.0 is a Windows presentation timer and control companion for Microsoft PowerPoint and WPS Presentation. I built it around a simple…
Windows can decode (and encode) HEIC without ImageMagick - but your browser can't decode it at all
Someone hands you a folder of iPhone photos, every file is .heic , and the form you need to upload them to wants JPG. The usual advice is "install I…
Converting WebP to JPG on Windows with no dependencies (and the alpha channel gotcha)
Someone sends you a folder of .webp files and the upload form only takes JPG. You don't need ImageMagick for this: Windows has shipped a WebP decode…
bashy: a pure-Go Bash 5.3 that runs on Windows and rebuilds itself from the downloaded binary
I've been building a Bash 5.3 in pure Go — no CGo, one static binary — on top of mvdan/sh , mostly so the same scripts run on Windows. It passes all…
Docker Desktop costs money now. Your Windows box already has the engine.
Since 2021, Docker Desktop has needed a paid subscription at companies past a certain size. A lot of developers have been told to stop using it, and…
The bug that only existed on the platform nobody was looking at
I ship a Python tool with a regression suite of several thousand checks and CI on ubuntu, macOS and Windows at Python 3.8 and 3.13. Yesterday all fi…
A safer Windows slowdown triage: 30 minutes before you reinstall
When a Windows machine becomes slow, reinstalling the operating system is often treated as the first move. It should usually be much later in the pr…
A Windows Desktop App Is “Not Responding”: Diagnose the Wait Before Reinstalling
A frozen desktop window is a state, not a diagnosis. Windows adds Not Responding when the UI thread stops processing messages for long enough. That…
Isolation, file ownership and cleanup: the boring half of running coding agents in parallel on Windows
Someone left a comment on my last post that was a better outline than the post was: Parallel agents are only practical when the workspace boundaries…
Windows silently stops delivering WH_KEYBOARD_LL hook events when a Chromium window has focus (and the diagnostic hook hides it)
I ship a push-to-talk dictation app for Windows ( VocalCode ). Hold a key, talk, release, text appears at the cursor. The "hold a key" part is a low…
One Letter Broke Four Toolchains. A Symlink Didn't Fix It.
Three Sessions, Four Broken Toolchains When configuring an automated coding assistant or build workflow, one of the most effective safety constraint…
PDFGeek: a free, offline PDF toolkit for Windows
Hi DEV! I built PDFGeek because I kept hitting the same wall: I'd need to merge two PDFs, end up on some web tool, and find myself about to upload a…
Why WSL2 Is Slow on /mnt/c, and How to Find the Exact Operation Costing You Time
cp crawls. npm install takes forever. The exact same command, run one directory over, is instant. If you've used WSL2 long enough, you may have hit…
🔒 I Stopped Testing ATLOCK by Asking “Does It Work?”
A security feature working once is not very interesting. The more important question is: What happens when everything goes wrong? That's the questio…
I Don't Want 87 More Downloads. I Want 87 More People to Test My Software.
Akhouri Systems has reached 513 downloads. My next milestone is 600. That means I need 87 more. But after building ATLOCK for months, I've realized…
Why Does a New Windows Process Appear Every Time I Start My PC?
Have you ever opened Windows Task Manager and noticed a process you don't remember installing? You close it. You restart your computer. And there it…