Eight AI dev tools later, three earned a spot on my dock
Eight AI developer tools arrived in my evaluation queue in the last quarter. I installed all of them, used each one for at least a week on a real project, and three…
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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 5-Minute Kubernetes Cluster Health Check
The 5-Minute Kubernetes Cluster Health Check Kubernetes (the open-source container orchestrator that runs and schedules your applications across a fleet of machines) is great until it is not. One bad node, a…
Why Shotcut 26.6’s Vulkan Upgrade is a Game-Changer for Open-Source Video Editing
Shotcut 26.6 ships real Vulkan acceleration, and the small print is the interesting part I edit a lot of short documentary cuts on a six-year-old desktop with a mid-range GPU, and I…
Better notebook than MacBook Pro? Librem 16 crushes privacy in 16-inch packaging
Better notebook than MacBook Pro? Librem 16 privacy in 16-inch packaging I bought a Purism Librem 16 in March and have been running it as my daily driver for three months. The…
NVIDIA 580.173.02 Driver Brings Big Fixes to GeForce 10 Linux Users
NVIDIA 580.173.02 driver brings big fixes to GeForce 10 Linux users I have been running the 580.173.02 driver on a GTX 1080 Ti in my main workstation for two weeks, and the…
Steam’s PipeWire Fix Saves Your Linux Streams
Steam’s PipeWire fix saves your Linux streams I run Steam on Fedora 40 with PipeWire as the audio server, and the latest Steam client update finally fixes the audio glitch I have…
KaOS Linux Dumps Systemd for Dinit
KaOS Linux 2026.06 Swaps Systemd for Dinit, and the Result Is Faster I have been running KaOS on a secondary machine since the 2024 cycle, mostly because I wanted a KDE-first distribution…
Essential Linux Mint Keyboard Shortcuts Every User Should Master
Essential Linux Mint keyboard shortcuts every user should master I have been running Linux Mint on my primary laptop for about three years. In that time I have trained myself to reach…
Open Source Weaves Connections Between C
How open source quietly weaves the connections between companies I noticed something the first time I mapped the dependencies in a medium-sized SaaS product. The product was twelve services, a Postgres database,…
Open Source Program Office
Open Source Program Office: what it is and when you need one I spent the better part of a year watching small companies try to manage their open source footprint with a…