Guides
Hands-on guides behind our tools. Each one works without the tool.
ShelfSpace
How to shrink installed Steam games with Windows’ built-in compression (compact.exe)
Compress an installed Steam game in place with compact.exe and LZX or XPRESS: the exact commands, how to check the savings, how to undo it, and the caveats.
LZX vs XPRESS for games: which Windows compression algorithm to pick
What LZX and XPRESS4K, 8K and 16K do in Windows file compression, the CPU vs ratio trade-off, real LZX results from four Steam games, and why some games barely shrink.
Queue Studio
How to peek messages in an Azure Service Bus dead-letter queue
Read dead-lettered Azure Service Bus messages without removing them: the portal’s 100-message peek, paging a whole DLQ from .NET, JavaScript and Python, and the reasons.
How to resubmit dead-lettered messages in Azure Service Bus without losing any
Send Azure Service Bus dead letters back safely: what the portal’s Re-send leaves behind, a send-then-complete loop in C#, duplicate detection, sessions, topics.
Azure Service Bus emulator vs the cloud: the differences that bite in tests
How the Azure Service Bus emulator differs from the cloud: quotas, one-hour TTL, no Entra ID, management on port 5300, zero counts and silent session receivers.