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…
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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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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.…
5 Reasons Virtual Machines Still Matter in 2026
Virtual machines (VMs, programs that emulate an entire physical computer inside your existing one) have been declared dead at least once a year for the last decade. Containers were supposed to make…
How an Open Source Docathon Improved Our Documentation
How an Open Source Docathon Improved Our Documentation We spent a weekend rewriting our docs in a public Google Doc and learned more about our product than we did in a quarter…
Suffering from BUGS: How I Almost Deleted My Entire Project
Suffering from BUGS: How I Almost Deleted My Entire Project I almost wiped a year of work because I trusted a flaky test suite and skipped the obvious step. The story has…
Claude Code: Agentic Coding Tool for Terminal
Claude Code: The Agentic Coding Tool for the Terminal That Actually Ships Claude Code is Anthropic’s CLI for Claude. The tool runs in your terminal. It can read files, edit files, run…
LibreOffice 26.2 Brings Performance Improvements and Better Compatibility
LibreOffice 26.2: The Performance Improvements and Better Document Compatibility That Matter LibreOffice 26.2 dropped in early 2026. The release notes mentioned 47 changes. Most were under the hood. A handful were visible.…