Why I stopped letting each AI assistant keep its own notes about me
I have two AI subscriptions on my credit card. Each one keeps a private notebook about who I am, what I am working on, and how I want answers formatted. Each one…
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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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Why PCIe wifi wins for desktop builds over USB dongles
Most people buy a USB wifi adapter because it is sitting in front of them on the shelf and the alternative means opening the case. I have made that exact decision on…
The first sixty seconds of a Windows Sandbox reveal everything
I keep a small text file on my desktop called sandbox-trace.md. Every time I open a fresh Windows Sandbox (the built-in Hyper-V virtual machine that lets you run a throwaway copy of…
Why a twenty minute demo is the cheapest budget tool in gaming
Every quarter I run the same experiment. I pick the next game I would buy blind, find its demo if one exists, and time myself. Twenty minutes is the cutoff. If the…
Why the C# TIOBE drop is the wrong story to read this month
Every month TIOBE publishes a fresh ranking, and every month social media treats it like a quarterly earnings report. The September 2026 update is a clean example of why that reading is…
Why I trust GitHub’s status posts more than most others
Most platform status posts read like quarterly earnings calls translated into engineering vocabulary. The rough patches get buried. The numbers stay vague. The framing is always positive. GitHub’s August 2026 availability post…
How I turned a GitHub Issue into a state machine for marketing
I used to lose the first forty-five minutes of every workday to the same handful of mechanical copy-paste jobs. Pull the registration list, scrub it, paste it into the morning channel. Duplicate…
A retired Google trick still pulls in misspelled searches
Search memory is a strange thing. People type phrases into Google that used to do something useful, discover the trick no longer works, and walk away feeling vaguely cheated. The phrase joins…
Google still hides a tiny zipper on its homepage, and it works
I lost a chunk of last Tuesday to the zipper on Google’s homepage, and the spouse gave up pretending to be patient about it. The thing does nothing useful. It does not…
Google hid a 1978 arcade game in your search page, and it is brilliant
I had two tabs open and a half-drunk coffee when I typed the wrong thing into Google and watched a working copy of Space Invaders appear in my search results. It loaded…