I did. For the longest time, I’d spend more time remembering what I worked on than actually working. At the end of the day, filling in timesheets felt like guesswork. That changed when I came across Chronoid, a Mac time tracking app that helps me monitor app usage, analyse...
I recently ran into a frustrating issue, Azure Application Insights simply wouldn’t load for me. Every time I opened the Logs blade in the Azure portal, I was greeted with the message: Error retrieving data At first, I assumed it was a service outage, so I waited a day...
One of the most universally loved features of Arc is its vertical bookmark bar. For me, it was the feature that kept me hooked on Arc — so much so that when I switched over to Zen Browser, I immediately missed it. Zen has been great, but I’ve occasionally noticed...
AI is everywhere these days—some promise it will take our jobs, others foresee robot overlords, and some simply dream of the next big productivity tool. While we’re not at full “robots-run-our-lives” mode yet, one corner that’s seen huge leaps over the past year is AI-powered note-taking. It...
TL;DR I loved my M2 MacBook Air, and I hit no performance walls for my typical .NET/DevOps/SQL Server workloads. The only real pain point was the 512 GB SSD filling up. I splurged on the M4 MacBook Pro (48 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD), and—after a...
Have you ever felt like your browser was more of a distraction than a helpful tool? That was me at the start of 2024. I’d been using Google Chrome for ages, but then I found myself drawn to The Browser Company’s Arc. It had a neat suite of...
If you use eM Client to manage multiple email accounts, you may occasionally run into an issue where certain attachments appear to be corrupt and won't open. This can be frustrating—especially if the attachments work fine when you check them in other email clients such as Outlook....
As 2025 begins, I figured it was time to give my personal website a much-needed refresh. A new year feels like the perfect excuse to make it more relevant to my work. When it comes to personal sites, I wanted something lightweight, easy to set up, and most importantly, zero...
After years of using Outlook in its various forms on Windows and macOS, I decided to move over to using eM Client this Black Friday (2024), when the commercial pro lifetime deal for this app was on offer. How I use Outlook I live by Rules in Outlook. I use...