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The Swift for Visual Studio Code extension adds first-class language support for projects built with Swift Package Manager, enabling seamless cross-platform development on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

When you paste your perfectly formatted article and what happens? The headers show literal ## symbols. Bold text keeps the asterisks. Code blocks lose all formatting. Tables? They just break completely.

What started in 2019 as a couple of utilities for things like window and shortcut management has gradually expanded to nearly 30 useful tools, including a keyboard shortcut creator, an image-to-text extractor, and a better search bar than the one that's built into Windows proper. PowerToys has become wildly popular among Windows power users, with more than 70 million downloads to date, but it's also completely free, with no ads, Office upsells, or ham-fisted Copilot integrations.

I've always found traditional visual HTML editors frustrating because they force you into rigid grid systems. To solve this, I spent the last 1,800 hours building HtmlDrag ( https://htmldrag.com/). It's a "freeform" editor that feels more like Figma or Photoshop but outputs production-ready HTML. Key Features: True Drag-and-Drop: Move elements anywhere on the canvas without grid constraints. URL Import: Import any live website via URL and edit its layout visually. Clean Code Export: No proprietary tags, just clean HTML/CSS.

NotebookLM is quietly becoming one of the most powerful tools for serious thinking work; yet most people use only a fraction of its potential. If you work with research, strategy, product thinking, or complex data research & analysis, NotebookLM can dramatically improve the quality of your decisions. I've demonstrated what NotebookLM is capable of in the article NotebookLM for Product Designers.

Microsoft PC Manager, which first appeared in beta form in 2022, and is now available for free to anyone who wants to give it a try. Microsoft promises it "effortlessly enhances PC performance with just one click," and will "keep your PC running smoothly." In other words, it's intended to clean up some of the clutter and baggage that your PC may have accumulated over the years.

The biggest success so far of generative artificial intelligence in the enterprise is AI coding tools that assist programmers. Startups such as Cursor, Replit, Lovable Labs, Harness, Windsurf, Augment Code, All Hands AI, and Microsoft, with its Visual Studio with GitHub Co-pilot, all offer programs that can drastically reduce the hand-coding humans need to do. And so I wondered: Could a newbie like me, with limited programming knowledge, talk my way through creating an app?

The core appeal of the Codex app is its ability to multitask. Instead of talking to one AI at a time, developers can run multiple coding agents in parallel. Each task is kept in its own "worktree," meaning the agents can tinker with the code simultaneously without creating a tangled mess of conflicting changes.

The reason for this is Snap - a Linux application packaging format - creates a local Trash folder for each VS Code version, one that's separate from the system-managed Trash, according to a VS Code bug report dating back to November 11, 2024. Not only that, but Snap keeps older versions of VS Code after updates, potentially multiplying the number of local Trash folders and the trashed-but-not-deleted files therein. Emptying the system Trash folder doesn't affect the local instances.