Jupyter Notebook is a tool to run and write Python code easily, showing results right away, and allowing you to combine code, charts, notes, and files in one place. You can start Jupyter Notebook ...

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

At the start of this year, I wrote a blog on how 2025 was the ‘year of the infostealer’, and it doesn’t look like that is going to change anytime soon. We’re now into June and the ‘fix’ attacks have ...

I use Markdown for all writing and Typora is my weapon of choice. But there are all kinds of alternatives out there. And some of them are worth knowing about. I watch a lot of personal technology ...

In a move that heralds a definitive return to native software, Microsoft is doubling down on the WinUI 3 framework to purge bloat from Windows 11. The PC community has reached a breaking point with ...

Editing your PC's environment variables can save you time in Command Prompt and make your scripts more concise. It also lets you customize where Windows stores certain files. This is what you need to ...

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. In the days before we reached the Netzarim checkpoint in Gaza in early April 2024, my wife and I rehearsed a ...

In context: Microsoft is going in some very wild directions with Windows development, with Notepad being one of the most outstanding guinea pigs in AI and design experimentations. Notepad now has the ...

It’s that time of year again—temperatures are dropping, leaves are changing color, and Microsoft is gradually rolling out another major yearly update to Windows 11. The Windows 11 25H2 update is ...

Microsoft’s new Windows 11 Insider Canary Build 27965 brings some important changes for power users and developers. First, let’s talk about Edit, which is a new built-in text editor for the command ...

Here is a tutorial to convert CSV to XLS or XLSX using the command-line interface in Windows 11/10. There are multiple ways to convert a CSV file to Excel formats (XLS, XLSX). You can use Microsoft ...