GitHub is four skills pretending to be one
I have been on GitHub since 2013 and I have taught four coworkers how to use it for the first time. The thing I keep relearning is that “using GitHub” is not…
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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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Collabora Office 26.04 hands the AI key back to the user
The office suite market in 2026 has settled into a pattern. AI is on by default. The toggle is buried five menus deep. The assistant ships with a vendor model you cannot…
GitHub Dev Days tour: paid seats, free skip
GitHub announced a “Dev Days” tour in March 2026, a series of in-person one-day events in 12 cities, mostly North American, where attendees can take a paid training class on Copilot, get…
OpenSign: a real e-signature tool that does not charge per seat
I have been looking for a legitimate open source e-signature tool for about three years. I wanted something that did not cost $10 per user per month, did not lock my signed…
Jan AI on Linux looked promising, then Ollama won me back
I have been a heavy Ollama user for about eighteen months. It runs on the Linux laptop, the Mac mini, a small NUC (a tiny fanless barebones PC, basically a board in…
Bambu Lab’s lockdown is a warning shot for every gadget you buy
I bought a Bambu Lab X1 Carbon in early 2025. It is the best 3D printer I have ever owned, and the worst purchase decision I have made in five years. The…
A $10 email client that actually keeps its mouth shut
I have used Thunderbird for years. It works. It is also a browser disguised as an email client, and every few months I catch it syncing telemetry back to Mozilla (the foundation…
Run your own tailnet with Headscale and skip Tailscale’s cloud
I did not get the Tailscale pitch until I installed it. The client goes on a device, you log in once, and the rest of the tailnet shows up like it was…
Sending a 10 GB file without renting someone else’s cloud
I have been the person on both ends of the 10 GB file problem more times than I want to admit. The last time was a video project, hand-off to a collaborator,…
8 DuckDuckGo settings that earn it the default slot
I run DuckDuckGo as my default search engine, and the honest answer is that I am not there for the privacy pitch alone. The privacy is real, but the day-to-day reason is…