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This Excel feature makes beginners look like experts
You don’t need coding skills to improve spreadsheets—Excel's conditional formatting handles it with simple rules.
I tried replacing Google Search with Perplexity Comet. There was a clear winner
I used Perplexity Comet instead of Google for a week. It made some searches easier, but not enough to keep me using it.
I stopped using the LET function—and my Excel sheets are better for it
Replacing LET formulas with helper columns made my Excel workbooks easier to audit, adapt, and troubleshoot.
Docker Compose made my homelab 10 times easier to manage—here’s why
Docker Compose makes moving my homelab between systems trivial
You're not using Excel's search properly—and it's costing you time
Searching in Excel becomes far faster when you combine wildcards, filter boxes, advanced "find" settings, and text functions.
These 5 open-source apps do everything your paid subscriptions do, but better
I ditched paid apps for these 5 self-hosted alternatives and saved thousands
Excel has a better way to filter data—but most people ignore it
Swapping traditional Excel filters for slicers creates a cleaner, more interactive workflow for dashboards, reports, and shared spreadsheets.
5 open-source projects that quietly hold together the world's internet
Often thankless, always needed. These are the projects that make the internet work as well as it does.
I ditched Notion for Excel, and my workflow stopped fighting me
Moving from Notion to Excel streamlined my tasks with tables, filters, and reliable offline access without constant maintenance.
Proxmox solves Plex's biggest backup problem, but most people don't know it
Your Plex backups are protecting the wrong thing and Proxmox fixes the part that actually matters.
6 simple Excel automations you can do in under 5 minutes
Stop doing more than you have to in Excel—built-in tools can automate repetitive tasks instantly.
Excel's ribbon is a trap: Here's what beginners should focus on instead
Mastering a few high-impact tools like formatting and tables is the best way to get started in Excel.
4 useful Excel projects beginners can finish in under an hour
Learn how to use tables, formulas, data validation, and formatting to solve everyday organization problems quickly.
This three-second Excel habit will make your spreadsheets run like clockwork
Most spreadsheet problems come from static cell ranges—Excel tables replace them with dynamic, self-managing data structures.
4 game-changing Excel tools you won't find on the ribbon
Excel hides powerful reporting, formatting, auditing, and selection tools outside the ribbon.
These 3 homelab apps are so good that I don't mind paying for them
There are times when paying for something you self-host makes sense.
DaVinci Resolve is the Adobe Lightroom replacement I didn't know I needed
I ditched Lightroom for DaVinci Resolve, and the node-based workflow isn't going to stop me from coming back.
I built a 100TB homelab, then realized the cloud was better for these 3 things
Why my homelab couldn't compete with the cloud (even with unlimited storage)
Named ranges in Excel are fine—but tables are what you should be using instead
Static range definitions require manual upkeep, while tables maintain structure, formulas, and formatting without lifting a finger.
5 ways your phone's Excel app is secretly better than the desktop version
Despite its reputation, Excel mobile speeds up data entry, captures tables through the camera, and streamlines touch-based editing.