Jan-Lukas Else

Thoughts of an IT expert

2021


Published on in 💬 Micro

Instead of banging my head on Advent of Code, I coded something useful today: Text-to-Speech for GoBlog using the official Google Text-to-Speech API. When posting, an audio file is generated automatically from the post content. And, I have to praise myself for this, I documented the feature as well! 😄

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Day 16 of Advent of Code is so confusing that I will not finish today’s puzzle. I wonder if yesterday was my last day with Advent of Code, or will the puzzles become more understandable and easier again in the next few days? Maybe I’m just more the practical type. I like programming, but such complex algorithms are not really my thing. And in the end, Advent of Code is supposed to be fun…

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“The Web Is Fucked”

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Kev Quirk has written a manifesto showing what bothers him about today’s web:

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How I checked the battery health of my Android phone 🔋

Published on in 📱 appydroid

My smartphone, a Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite, which has been my daily driver for a year and a few months, has a 4500mAh Li-Po battery ("lithium-ion polymer" – like lithium-ion, but with solid or gel-like electrolytes that allow a thinner design). My smartphone can be charged with a maximum of 45 watts. The included charger, which I always use for charging, delivers a maximum of 25 watts.

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Every good blogging system should have an option to schedule posts for later! GoBlog now has such a feature as well. And this is the first scheduled post. 😀

And I finally started writing the documentation on how to use GoBlog

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“What would a real Web3 look like?”

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Matt Baer, found of write.as, compares the web3 with his vision of how a real Web 3.0 could look like.

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Published on in 💬 Micro

Thank you for featuring my blog in your latest “Advent of Bloggers” post and your kind words, James! 🤓

Just two notes:

Jan’s blog has a simple design: the background is black and the text is white.

That’s with dark mode. With light mode it’s white background and black text.

There is also a German version of the blog for those would prefer to browse the blog in German.

It doesn’t just contain German translations, it mostly contains posts that are just relevant in German. So for those who understand German, I recommend reading both.

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Published on in 💬 Micro

Today I learned that there is a new version 2 of Docker Compose. Docker Compose is now no longer a Python app, but a CLI plugin for Docker written in Go. And there is a Compose specification.

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Micro.blog’s new newsletter feature

Published on in 💭 Thoughts

I think the new micro.blog feature for newsletters is the right approach. Blog first, newsletter second. But newsletters are not difficult to set up, they only need to be activated by a checkbox.

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Building Docker images in Drone CI using Docker-in-Docker

Published on in 👨‍💻 Dev

This evening I tried to improve the build process of GoBlog. GoBlog gets built using Drone CI and Docker. The problem was that two image variants are to be built, one based on the other, and the whole thing always took quite a long time.

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