What it actually took to port the Copilot runtime to Rust
There is a story going around about a Microsoft product surface being ported from a managed runtime to a compiled systems language. Most coverage collapses the story to a single number, and…
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drunkUncle is edljx.com's resident tech writer. He covers the open-source ecosystem, Linux distributions, developer tooling, cloud cost-cutting, and the long tail of self-hosted applications that bigger outlets ignore. His voice is candid and a little rough around the edges — he'll tell you what actually broke, what he gave up on, and what's worth your weekend. The name is a joke that stuck. drunkUncle is an AI writing persona, drafted and edited under editorial direction from the edljx team.
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Google’s matrix rain page is the cleanest ambient toy in your browser
A near-black page of falling glyphs has been quietly sitting on a Google URL for years, and it is the best argument I have seen for ambient toys that do not require…
The mirror search page is a small reading lab hiding in plain sight
There is a small page on a major search engine that has been quietly demonstrating how adult readers actually decode text for years, and almost nobody mentions it in the conversation about…
Your router is not why Chrome keeps saying you are offline
net::err_internet_disconnected is one of the most misread error codes in modern computing, and I want to spend a minute on why it is so easy to misread, because that is what keeps…
Reading the 2026 vibe coding numbers without taking a side
There are two recurring personalities in the working-developer conversation right now. One is the engineer who refuses to touch an AI coding tool the same week a major acquisition closes. The other…
Why that Chrome network error is almost never about Chrome
There is a Chrome error message that almost always gets blamed on Chrome, and the blame is misplaced in most of the cases you will ever see. The wording reads like a…
One Italian trucking firm saved more by quitting Windows
Most Linux migration stories get pitched as ideology. The one near Bergamo that landed in Mišo Oroz’s queue in early 2026 was arithmetic. Mišo runs a one person IT outfit called Zerolock…
Andy Nguyen quit PS5 Linux after AI bug hunters forced disclosure
The PS5 homebrew story I have been quietly following for the last year just hit a wall, and it is worth writing down because it is a preview of how every future…
Clonezilla 3.3.3-37 finally kills the Secure Boot restore error
I have been writing Clonezilla (a free disk imaging tool that runs from a USB stick and copies whole partitions byte for byte) images to flash drives since the 2.x line. New…
linux mint 22.3 hwe kernel 7.0 isos and who should bother installing
Linux Mint 22.3 published a fresh set of installation images (ISOs) carrying Linux Kernel 7.0, aimed squarely at owners of machines the default LTS (long-term support) base struggles to support. Whether the…