5 Reasons Virtual Machines Still Matter in 2026
Virtual machines (VMs, programs that emulate an entire physical computer inside your existing one) have been declared dead at least once a year for the last decade. Containers were supposed to make…
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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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How an Open Source Docathon Improved Our Documentation
How an Open Source Docathon Improved Our Documentation We spent a weekend rewriting our docs in a public Google Doc and learned more about our product than we did in a quarter…
Suffering from BUGS: How I Almost Deleted My Entire Project
Suffering from BUGS: How I Almost Deleted My Entire Project I almost wiped a year of work because I trusted a flaky test suite and skipped the obvious step. The story has…
I Started Using This Home Assistant Add-on To Help Me Sleep (And It Actually Worked)
I Started Using This Home Assistant Add-on To Help Me Sleep (And It Actually Worked) I went through three sleep apps before I found one that stuck. The first was a phone-only…
GitNexus: Zero-Server Code Intelligence Engine
GitNexus: Zero-Server Code Intelligence Engine That Actually Works GitNexus is a code intelligence tool that runs entirely in your browser. There is no server. There is no account. There is no upload…
Claude Code: Agentic Coding Tool for Terminal
Claude Code: The Agentic Coding Tool for the Terminal That Actually Ships Claude Code is Anthropic’s CLI for Claude. The tool runs in your terminal. It can read files, edit files, run…
Sandboxing in OpenClaw: Containment for Safer Tool Execution
Sandboxing in OpenClaw: Containment for Safer Tool Execution OpenClaw is a self-hosted AI agent framework. The agent uses an LLM as its brain and can call tools to do work. The tools…
LibreOffice 26.2 Brings Performance Improvements and Better Compatibility
LibreOffice 26.2: The Performance Improvements and Better Document Compatibility That Matter LibreOffice 26.2 dropped in early 2026. The release notes mentioned 47 changes. Most were under the hood. A handful were visible.…
Cloudflare Agents: Build and Deploy AI Agents on Cloudflare
Cloudflare Agents: Build and Deploy AI Agents on Cloudflare’s Edge Cloudflare Agents is a managed platform for deploying AI agents. The platform runs on Cloudflare’s edge network. The agents are written in…
What is a Database Transaction?
What Is a Database Transaction? The Practical Guide for Developers Who Use Them Every Day Most developers use database transactions every day without thinking about them. The SQL is BEGIN, COMMIT, ROLLBACK.…