Your ISP’s DNS Is Also a Logging Pipeline You Never Agreed To
Most of the internet works on a layer nobody ever votes on. Every time a browser asks “where is this website”, the answer comes from somewhere. By default, that somewhere is a…
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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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The software you keep delaying is a sunk cost you stop noticing
Every tech person I know has at least one switch they keep meaning to make and never do. The switch is rarely hard in the moment. What is hard is admitting that…
Your Android Phone Is Not Slow, It Is Just Animating
There is a specific kind of lag that does not show up in benchmarks. The phone boots in fifteen seconds. Every app launches under half a second. Storage is half empty. RAM…
swapping the F-Droid client is the easiest Android upgrade
I have been running F-Droid (a community-run catalog of free, open-source Android apps, served from a curated index rather than Google’s Play Store) on my phone for years, and I have spent…
TypeScript Won, and the Statistics Are Lying About Why
I read four TypeScript roundup articles before writing this one, and three of them opened with a different number that was supposed to prove TypeScript is winning. Two of those numbers were…
Why a Revenue Share Program Is the Part Open Source Skips
Most open-source launches are about what the project will let you do. Read the source, run the binary, fork it, ship your own build. That part has become table stakes. The part…
A Search Engine Built a Tiny Museum for an Older Internet
The thing I keep noticing in 2026 is how much software is built to outlast its own usefulness. A weather app that wants you to subscribe. A notes app that wants your…
The Plumbing Behind Local Agents Is Finally Catching Up to the Models
Most local AI agents today are about six months ahead of their plumbing. The model gets a question right and the agent forgets it asked two steps ago. The model hallucinates a…
google fan is the engineering culture that refused an undo button
There is a small software product most people walk past every day, and the reason it has survived for over a decade is the same reason nobody has ever tried to file…
Google’s Guitar Doodle Is the Quietest Design Lesson in the Search Box
I lost twenty minutes to a doodle last weekend, and I do not feel bad about it. That is the strange part. Most of the things that pull me into a browser…