Having persisted with Windows 11’s context menu for long enough, it’s time to concede. I find it too restrictive and slows down the muscle memory. If you yearn for that touch of Windows 10 back in your life, read on. Reverting from the new style context menu should look something like this: But it isn’t. […]
Automated email alerts lead to information overload. Emails for failures, confirmation, or just for information. So, we build rules and filters to try and handle them, hoping nothing new slips through the net. How about an alternative to bring consistency and streamline your inbound emails? Let’s take a look at Sub-addressing to overcome the overload. What is […]
For this week’s short post I’ve been inspired by Reddit. There’s something a little sus with this snippet of SQL: The result? ඞ A very simplistic way to produce an illustration. Not quite as complex as other ways to create imagery with SQL Server…
If you haven’t seen or used Markdown before, it’s a simple way to annotate plain text in a way which indicates formatting by using specific characters. This means that you can format your text as you’re typing rather than scrolling through countless options in a visual editor such as Word. Personally I find markdown so […]
Productivity is a core component of our day to day jobs in and around code. Part of that comes from the tools we use and a common one would be Notepad++ thanks to all of its handy features and plugins to extend it. One of the simplest out of the box features is the ability […]
Andy Brownsword 