Rethinking Technology

Updated Feb 2025 Maintaining a system has always been a pain point, especially on Windows, where getting your OS back up to speed after a fresh reinstall requires manually searching, downloading, installing, and configuring about a hundred apps and individual mods for Windows. As of the past few years, the maintenance story has changed dramatically on Windows. Windows now has various tools for maintaining and reinstalling a Windows machine that do not require creating customized Windows installer images and using confusing industrial IT tools....

The Best Way to Maintain Windows 11 - Ryan Johnson Updated Feb 2025 Maintaining a system has always been a pain point, especially on Windows, where getting your OS back up to speed after a fresh reinstall requires manually searching, downloading, i…

A few years ago, Microsoft, under Sundar Pichai's leadership, changed its stance on open source and started to embrace Linux habits. The package manager was one of them. For a long time, Windows did not have a package manager. Some people made a 3rd party one called Chocolatey, but it often contained outdated packages and broken install scripts, and its website was confusing....

How to use Winget package manager - Ryan Johnson A few years ago, Microsoft, under Sundar Pichai’s leadership, changed its stance on open source and started to embrace Linux habits. The package manager was one of them. For a long time, Wind…

Recently, I decided to create a Windows application that would automatically switch between light and dark themes based on sunrise and sunset times. Instead of tackling this project alone, I worked with Claude 3.5 Sonnet as my pair programming partner. Here's how that experience went. The Initial Concept My goal was simple: create a Windows app that would switch my system's theme based on the time of day....

Developing a Windows Theme Auto-Switcher with Claude: An AI Pair Programming Journey - Ryan Johnson Recently, I decided to create a Windows application that would automatically switch between light and dark themes based on sunrise and sunset times. Instead of tackling this project alone, I worked…