Test your Drupal website with Cypress
Testing a Drupal site with Cypress, the way I wish someone had shown me I have been writing Drupal code on and off for about six years, and the part of the…
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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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Run a virtual conference using only open source tools
Run a virtual conference using only open source tools I have helped run three virtual conferences in the last eighteen months, all on a tight budget, and every one of them used…
Why Vinyl Still Wins the Collection Game (And Where CDs Actually Make Sense)
Why Vinyl Still Wins the Collection Game (And Where CDs Actually Make Sense) Here is a thing nobody expected: vinyl records are outselling CDs in 2026, and the gap is widening. Not…
Portainer 2.39.4 LTS Fixes CVEs
Portainer 2.39.4 LTS Fixes CVEs If you run a Synology NAS (a popular brand of network-attached storage appliance from Synology that runs a customized Linux distro called DSM, DiskStation Manager) and manage…
I Turned My Life Into an RPG and Actually Started Getting Things Done
I Turned My Life Into an RPG and Started Getting Things Done I have tried every productivity app on the market, and I have abandoned most of them. I bought premium subscriptions…
Plex Just Raised Remote Streaming Prices by 50 Percent
Plex Just Raised Remote Watch Pass Prices by 50 Percent I keep a running spreadsheet of every subscription I pay for, and Plex’s Remote Watch Pass was the line item I barely…
Plex Just Tripled Its Lifetime Pass Price
Plex Just Tripled Its Lifetime Pass Price I paid $250 for a Plex lifetime pass back in 2019. I justified it by amortizing the cost over the years I had already been…
React Leaves Meta—Now Runs Under Its Own Foundation
React leaves Meta and runs under its own foundation I have been writing React code for about a decade, and I have watched the project go through three identity shifts. The first…
Speed Up Your Linux RAID Resyncs
Speed Up Your Linux RAID Resyncs I rebuilt a 6TB mirror last weekend after a routine scrub flagged a sector, and the default resync speed took 14 hours. I then rebuilt the…
3 reasons to host a docathon for your open source project
3 reasons to host a docathon for your open source project A docathon is a focused, time-boxed event where a group of people get together (in person, on a video call, or…