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.
I keep meeting smart people who say the same thing: I could never build something useful at work. That sentence is almost always wrong. What they usually mean is that nobody ever…
A domain name is the cheapest piece of credibility on the open web. Anyone can register anything that sounds like a known organization, and the search engines will dutifully serve the new…
Most lifestyle writing I have read in the last year opens with the same promise: rebuild your morning, fix your week, change your life by next month. Then the calendar fills up…
A kernel update landed for Debian 13 on August 6, 2026, and most of the coverage focused on the wrong thing. The interesting story is not the named vulnerabilities. It is the…
There is a particular kind of website that almost disappeared from the open web by 2025. A small group of writers, paid salaries, working from a quiet office, producing a few hundred…
A Debian 13 Trixie kernel update landed recently with sixty-eight CVEs in the changelog. I have been on the receiving end of those changelogs for about a decade, and my first instinct…
I have a confession. I almost skipped the AMD P-State patch thread when it first crossed my radar, because the title read like every other kernel mailing list post. Driver update. Frequency…
I used to think the ceiling was obvious. Earn more, save more, retire comfortably. Then I started watching careers side by side, and the line stopped holding. Two people, similar ages, similar…
In May 2026 a creator posted a one minute video suggesting that ordinary passengers could each chip in a few thousand dollars and put together a buyout bid for Spirit Airlines. Spirit…
I have been keeping my old mid-tower running 24/7 for about six years. The original reason was a home server I never quite finished setting up. The reason I kept it running…
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