Sonorium: music discovery that trusts humans, not algorithms
A community-driven music discovery platform that prioritizes human curation over algorithms.
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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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Killing my Perplexity tab and running models at home
I have been paying $20 monthly for Perplexity AI Pro for nearly a year now, and honestly, it felt justified at first. Real-time web search, cited sources, and a polished web interface…
An open-source swap that makes Nextcloud feel heavy
I have been running Nextcloud for years, mostly because it was the default answer to self-hosted file management. But every time I used it, I felt like I was running an entire…
A 200-line container turned my Obsidian vault into a wiki
I have been running the same Obsidian vault across three machines for two years and hating the sync step every time. Then a 200-line Docker container replaced the entire syncing rig, and…
A self-hosted clipboard that doesn’t phone home
Copy and paste is the most fundamental thing we do on computers all day long. Yet somehow, making it work across devices has remained this surprisingly complex problem. Apple has Universal Clipboard,…
Local AI got boring, and that’s the best thing about it
Remember when running a local AI model felt like magic? You downloaded a model, your fans spun up, and you got responses seconds later. That was 2024 and 2025. In 2026, local…
PowerShell scripts that finally ping you when done
I have written more PowerShell scripts than I can count, and for years every one of them ended the same way: the script finished, the prompt came back, and I had no…
When Docker Compose stops being enough for the homelab
I started with a single Raspberry Pi running Docker Compose. One YAML file, a few containers, everything worked. Then I added a second Pi for redundancy. Then a third for more services.…
The weird Linux tools that quietly run my day
I have been running Linux as my daily driver for about twelve years. In that time I have collected a small drawer of tools that never make the front page of “top…
Stop hand-curating your media library, let TinyMediaManager do it
If you run a media server, you know the pain. Thousands of files with inconsistent naming. No metadata. Artwork missing or wrong. Folders nested seven levels deep because someone (you) organized by…