A Practical Safety Net: Why I Always Create a System Restore Point Before Installing DriversI've been in this game long enough to know that sometimes, even the most promising driver update can turn into a…
Why I Started Using AI for Excel MacrosI recently found myself in a familiar spot: a colleague, sharp as a tack in their field, needed to automate a tedious, repetitive Excel task. They knew what…
Just last week, I was setting up a new machine, and one of the first things I needed was my daily log rotation and cleanup script to run automatically. I'd built a small Python script…
A few weeks back, I had an old Android phone, a Samsung I used for testing, suddenly decide it was tired of operating normally. It just kept showing the Samsung logo, vibrating, going black, and…
When "Gone" Isn't Quite Gone: Recovering Deleted Files Beyond the Recycle BinI’ve been there more times than I care to admit, both for myself and for frantic clients. That moment when you’ve accidentally hit Shift+Delete…
The other day, I was staring down a spreadsheet that needed some serious data wrangling. We had sales data across several regions, product categories, and discount structures, all scattered across three different sheets within the…
A while back, I had a situation at home where a friend's kids were visiting, and they came with a small arsenal of tablets, phones, and various Wi-Fi-enabled toys. Suddenly, I had about ten new…
I was prepping for a quarterly review call last month, screen-sharing my desktop to walk through some architectural diagrams. As I dragged the presentation window into view, I caught a glimpse of my desktop: a…
I recently found myself staring at an ad for a very specific type of niche outdoor gear—gear I'd only mentioned casually to a friend, not even searched for. It was the final straw. For years,…
The Disconnecting Android Auto HeadacheThere are few things more annoying than having your navigation or music abruptly cut out mid-drive, only to be greeted by the dreaded "Android Auto disconnected" message. It happens, often seemingly…
