Shekhar Vaidya

Shekhar Vaidya

A tech journalist & comp sci engineer.
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Tech journalist and computer science engineer. I write about software for XDA, and run TechLatest and eSportsLatest on the side. Lately I've been building instead of just covering — I ship a small portfolio of tools (MSDL, a Windows ISO downloader; Pixlyzer; FPS and bottleneck calculators; MinxLink) and let real usage decide which ones deserve more attention. Most of the code gets written with AI agents doing the heavy lifting, which lets me run several projects in parallel instead of picking just one.

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MSDL — Windows ISO Downloader - Direct links from Microsoft's CDN. No ads. No registration.

Microsoft's own download page makes you pass a browser check first, and most third-party ISO sites bundle ads or unwanted installers. MSDL replicates Microsoft's own session flow to hand you the exact same signed CDN link, directly — no account, no ads, no browser gate. It ships two ways: a web app for quick lookups and a CLI (msdl) that runs the fetch from your own machine — useful since Microsoft rate-limits server-side traffic. Fully open source, self-hostable, no account or ads either way.
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