Windows - Shane Gowland

Microsoft Surface Laptop – A Review

January 26, 2019

I purchased a Microsoft Surface Laptop about six months ago (this post has been sitting in drafts for a while—sorry), after my trusty 2012 model Macbook Air started having age-related

Instantly create web-friendly images with Bzzt! Image Editor

April 19, 2022September 1, 2017

Web pages with large and uncompressed image files are going to load more slowly than pages with correctly-sized and properly-optimized images. While there’s hundreds of apps available to resize and

State of the Labs

April 18, 2022August 13, 2017

SingularLabs has been struggling lately. Other projects and commitments have consumed most of my productive time over the last two years, and SingularLabs has languished as a result. In June we had our lowest ever monthly traffic at 68,000 pageviews. To put that in perspective, in June of 2014 we did 68,000 pageviews in the month’s first three days.

An image manipulation and compression app I’ve been working on.

January 2, 2018January 25, 2016

After reading Jeff Atwood’s recent blog post on Zopfli optimization, I wanted to see how hard it would be to create a GUI to apply the compression algorithm to my PNG files.

Atom Editor ‘Open With’ Assistant for Windows

April 3, 2018December 15, 2015

Github’s Atom text editor is one of the best available. Unfortunately on Windows, there’s no easy way to set Atom as the default editor for specific file formats.