VS Code is becoming a better productivity app than most productivity apps
…not a developer The secret text editor everyone should be using Data ownership and future-proofing The power of Git Every time I migrate to a new shiny SaaS tool, I’m…
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I replaced Portainer, Grafana, and Prometheus with this stack
…Or you can set up Watchtower to manage updates, but that project is no longer in active maintenance, and you have to use forks or find another tool. Related 9 Docker containers…
A popular Python library just became a backdoor to your entire machine
…These are the tools that developers and platform engineers install in production environments and CI pipelines, and installing them would typically be considered a safe act. They're not obscure packages with…
The best PowerToys tool just got a ton of stability fixes
…Fortunately, one person has stepped up and squashed a ton of bugs in the tool, and you can download it right now. Related The newest PowerToys update makes the Command Palette a…
Euro-Office is a free, open-source alternative to Microsoft 365 and Google Docs
…Patrick has a BA in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University. Sign in to your XDA account Read update The team behind OnlyOffice has reached out to XDA with the following statement: Summary…
This open-source app finally showed me how much I was actually spending on subscriptions
…From there, it auto updates the dashboard. I like that it isn't replacing a full-fledged budgeting tool. It just tracks your recurring payments. The main dashboard gives you a quick…
My perfect self-hosted setup became my biggest productivity killer
…I was spending more time maintaining containers than actually using the tools. Simple updates required careful checks because something could break unexpectedly. Debugging configuration files slowly became more common than writing content…
After two months of Open WebUI updates, I'd pick it over ChatGPT's interface for local LLMs
…In my spare time, you’ll probably find me playing Counter-Strike or VALORANT, and you can reach out to me at adam@xda-developers.com , on Twitter as @AdamConwayIE , on Instagram…
Cron inside WSL beats Windows Task Scheduler for one reason: it actually works the way I think
…WSL doesn't advertise everything it's capable of WSL gets a lot of attention for its appeal to developers: the Linux build environment, Docker containers, and Linux tooling. The scheduling and…
I added these MCP servers to my local LLM stack, and one of them replaces a $249 paid tool
…Crawl4AI turned scraping into a single tool call Replaces paid subscriptions too Crawl4AI is the other free tool that you'd have to pay for normally in this stack. Firecrawl charges $16…