A home network dashboard that ends the SSH-and-guess routine
I used to guess whether my home network was healthy. SSH into the router, check the load, count the connected devices, check the ISP status, check the NAS. The guess work was…
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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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OpenClaw, Google Spark, and the agent toolchain nobody saw coming
Six weeks after OpenClaw crossed 300,000 GitHub stars, Google walked onto the I/O stage and announced Gemini Spark. The two events are not actually connected in any technical sense, but they have…
Three real apps, zero paid APIs. The 2026 free tier audit
I built three small apps in 2025 that use only free-tier APIs (HTTP endpoints that other services expose for programmatic access). One handles lead routing for a friend’s consulting business, one does…
Android apps that do not treat your data like product
The Play Store is broken. I do not mean the app review process or the discoverability algorithm, although both are also broken. I mean the basic assumption that an Android phone is…
One Android toggle buried my notification chaos
I have used Android for over a decade. Notifications are why I stayed. iPhone notifications are a joke by comparison. For years, my tray was clean, the apps I cared about floated…
Seven Ubuntu tweaks I run on every fresh install
I have installed Ubuntu on at least thirty machines in the last three years. Laptops for clients, a few home lab machines, two of my own. The first thing I do on…
Dozzle: the Docker log viewer that retired my SSH habit
A lightweight, real-time log viewer for Docker containers accessible from any browser.
Two decades on, open source still earns the trust
A reflection on why open source software offers more trustworthiness than proprietary alternatives.
I made a font from my own handwriting, and it cost nothing
I have been writing in cursive since I was six, and my handwriting is, frankly, not great. It is fast, it is messy, and it has a couple of letters I draw…
Microsoft is killing Office 2019 on purpose, and timing it
I have been running Office 2019 on a Mac Mini for about three years. The license was a one-time purchase, the apps launched, the documents opened, and the workflow was fine. Starting…