This To-Do App Tracks Your Time, Handles Jira, and Collects Zero Data
I’ve been looking for a to-do app that does three things: tracks time on each task, syncs with the Jira board my team uses, and does not ship my data to 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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What People Are Building with OpenClaw: Real Projects from the Community
What People Are Building with OpenClaw: Real Projects, Honest Results OpenClaw is a year old now, and the early “look at the demo” energy has faded. What is left is the project…
Self-Host Your PDF Toolkit in 10 Minutes
Self-Host Your PDF Toolkit in 10 Minutes I have handled enough sensitive documents to know I do not want them floating through some third-party cloud before I can merge or rotate them.…
Google’s Android Lockdown Is Still Happening — Don’t Be Fooled by the PR
Google’s Android Lockdown Is Still Happening – Don’t Be Fooled by the PR Google told everyone they would back off on locking down Android. They didn’t. That was the message out of…
Guilt-Free Motivation in Open Source Communities
Guilt-Free Motivation in Open Source Communities I spent three years contributing to an open source project I had stopped enjoying. The guilt of walking away kept me there through two rewrites, a…
PicoClaw: Tiny, Fast, and Deployable Anywhere
PicoClaw: Tiny, Fast, and Deployable Anywhere PicoClaw is a 3MB command-line HTTP client (a tool for making web requests from your terminal) that I have been using for about two months, and…
ZeroClaw: The Rust-Powered AI Assistant That Packs a Punch
ZeroClaw: The Rust-Powered AI Assistant That Packs a Punch ZeroClaw is a new open-source AI coding assistant written in Rust, and after three weeks of using it as my daily driver I…
Challenges Facing Open Source in Developing Countries
I have spent a fair amount of time working with open source communities in countries that are usually described as “the Global South” (a term that groups Africa, Latin America, parts of…
Mengram: The AI Memory API That Remembers What Matters
The hardest part of building an AI agent is not the model. It is the memory. Every agent framework I have used in the last year has its own half-baked solution for…
Kilo Code Reviewer: AI-Powered Code Reviews Every Time You Open a PR
Most “AI code reviewer” launches in 2025 and 2026 have been marketing demos. The product posts a comment on a pull request, the comment is sometimes useful, and the vendor moves on.…