Jan-Lukas Else

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Welcome to the Dev section of my blog with development related articles.


go-shutdowner: Simple graceful shutdowns in Go

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As I already mentioned, I’m trying to modularize parts of GoBlog to make the code more organized and to be able to test it better (thanks to the tests, I always notice small bugs that I can then correct).

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XOR Operator in Java

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At work today I came across an Eclipse feature for cleaning up Java code. It helps you to improve the code, for example to add final to attributes or parameters, or to improve boolean expressions.

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Simply cache form fields in localStorage

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Have you ever started typing something into a web form and then you accidentally closed the browser and lost everything you typed there? Because of that I usually use an external text editor for long posts and later copy the text into my blog editor.

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TIL: gob

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Today I learned about gob. gob is a package from the standard library of Go and allows to store structs efficiently as a byte array. Faster than encoding data in JSON for example. Useful for communication between Go programs or for temporarily storing data. In GoBlog, I’ve recently been using gob for a SQLite-based queue for verifying webmentions and sending ActivityPub requests. gob has the same interface as the JSON package.

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Miniflux scraper rules

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Speaking of web comics that I follow via RSS, ATOM or JSON feed: ideally I would like to see the comics directly in my feed reader (Miniflux). Some feeds already show the images directly in the content, others do not.

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Be careful when using β€œ::file-selector-button”!

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A reader pointed out to me today that the styling of buttons on my sites was broken in the Firefox ESR version 78. I took this notice as a reason to search for the root cause, because I had already noticed the error in the Tor browser, but I always thought it was due to some security rules.

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Find broken links with GoBlog

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Even though it is often said that the Internet does not forget, it does forget some things. When people shut down their websites, delete sites or even sell their domains.

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Firefox 87 with some nice changes

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Firefox 87 was released with a new feature for everyone developing websites with light and dark modes.

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Tor support in GoBlog

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I don’t know of any other blogging software that supports this: Serve a blog directly as a Tor hidden service.

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How I sync my Nextcloud with an S3 bucket using Drone CI and rclone

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A few days ago, an OVH data center went up in flames and was completely destroyed. This reminded me that it is important to store backups in another place on earth if possible, so better not in the same data center as the server that might burn down.

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