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How to replace your mouse with PowerToys Run and the Command Palette. Advanced search operators, plugin usage, and how to wire it into a mouseless developer workflow.
Tech 6 minA complete guide to PowerToys Keyboard Manager. System-wide key remapping, application-specific shortcuts, disabling useless keys, and building a power-user keyboard layout.
Tech 6 minHow to use PowerToys Workspaces to save and launch your entire dev environment in one click, and Awake to keep your laptop alive during long builds and deployments.
Tech 5 minThree PowerToys that transform how you capture, preview, and paste information: Text Extractor OCR, Peek file preview, and Advanced Paste with AI transformations.
Tech 6 minThree PowerToys that fix Windows Explorer's worst gaps: bulk image resizing, regex-powered batch renaming, and identifying which process is locking your files.
Tech 6 minThe four PowerToys utilities that every developer will reach for daily: managing env vars by profile, safe registry file preview, hosts file editing without admin CMD, and pixel-perfect color picking.
Tech 7 minThe PowerToys utilities that take control of your screen: finding your cursor on a 4K display, zooming and annotating for presentations, measuring UI pixel dimensions, and cropping live window thumbnails.
Tech 5 minHow oriz-omnipost reads RSS from any site in the chirag127/oriz family and pushes new entries to dev.to, Bluesky, Buttondown, Telegra.ph, WordPress, and Reddit — with idempotency keyed on the RSS guid.
EngineeringHow the chirag127/workspace coordinates eleven static sites, a shared design kit, and an Open Knowledge Format bundle that captures every architectural decision in plain markdown.
EngineeringThirteen orphan repos, one rejected AdSense application, and a decision to consolidate everything onto a single Astro 6 deploy on Cloudflare.
Engineering 7 minReal free-tier limits, the no-card-on-file rule, and why Cloudflare beats Vercel Hobby for an AdSense-monetized indie site.
Engineering 8 minMigrating from the legacy collections API to the Content Layer, modeling 1,864 book summary pages with one Zod schema, and why Astro.glob is gone.
Engineering 9 min