Jan-Lukas Else

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👨‍💻 Dev: XXXX-06

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


Ditching Pocket Premium: Streamline link saving with Telegram

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For the past two years, I’ve been using Pocket to save links that I want to revisit later. However, as my yearly subscription is about to expire, I’ve started thinking about finding a free alternative that offers the features I actually use, without paying for unnecessary extras.

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The resources I used to pass the DVA-C02 exam

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I recently passed my first AWS certification exam and am now an AWS Certified Developer Associate. I want to quickly share the resources I used to prepare.

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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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Make your website more printable with @print CSS

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I just added some CSS rules to my Hugo theme to make my blog more printable. Why and how does this work?

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Cache Hugo modules in Drone CI

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Today I modified my theme to use Twemoji for emojis. To add the SVG files to the theme, I used a Hugo module mount in the config of my theme:

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Automatically Backup Docker Volumes using restic

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One of the most visited pages on my blog is about how to automatically backup Docker volumes. In that post I use the Docker image blacklabelops/volumerize. Unfortunately that image is deprecated since March 2019 and not longer maintained.

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