Mahnoor Faisal Apr 20, 2026, 8:30 AM EDT Mahnoor Faisal is a tech journalist covering AI and productivity tools with bylines at XDA , SlashGear , MakeUseOf , Laptop Mag , and Android Police . She…
…Sign in to your XDA account I'm not a developer by profession (yet), but Claude Code has quickly become one of my favorite tools. It lets me turn my many chaotic…
…Over time, I realized that Claude is more useful when used within the tools I already live in and not as a standalone tool. Then I decided to use Claude Projects along…
…what most people will use, and it's the same tool either way. It's been around longer than I realised - development started back in 2017. The core idea is that you…
…They often just make the project easier for an AI tool to understand without forcing it to infer everything from scratch. When the tool can see the test command, the build process…
…Why Start11? It was developed by Stardock, a company that has been developing similar software for more than three decades, and it has a long history of Windows customization tools. I went…
…Explorer Patcher , a popular tool for moving the taskbar from the bottom position, became incompatible after Windows 25H2 was released. It was more of a developer’s fault, but it doesn’t…
…Developing apps for Linux is hard because not only is the overall audience fairly small, but to cater to all of it, developers may need to package apps in a wide range…
…Whether I am researching a new article topic, improving my home lab infrastructure, or developing a new app, Claude tools are the ones I rely on . Coming from a computer science background…
…Infinite monkey theorem aside, this proved to me that Claude Code is genuinely useful not just as a tool, but it's useful for creating my own tools. I could spend tokens…