Monthly Archives: September 2026

Markdown Midget can encrypt a notes file

Markdown Midget can encrypt a document

09/16/2026
Markdown Midget can lock a single document behind a password, through File ▸ Encrypt Document…, so a file of passwords and account numbers that lives in a synced folder or rides along on a laptop is unreadable as bytes on ... Read More
File Explorer with passwords.docx selected inside a Dropbox/OneDrive synced folder.

Synced Password Troubles

09/14/2026
Somewhere in your OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, or SharePoint tree sits a file named passwords.docx — or passwords.xlsx, or secrets.txt — and the sync client treats it like any other memo. The bytes stay readable for anyone who inherits the ... Read More
A gold MSSQL database drum on a circuit board: tangled JOIN cables on the left, a clean lambda path on the right.

Experiencing Entity Framework Nightmares? Try FunkyORM.

09/11/2026
We’ve lost count of the number of codebases — client work, inherited platforms, the occasional “can you just take a look at this?” — where Entity Framework was the thing that made a simple reporting screen feel like a hostage ... Read More