Jan-Lukas Else

Thoughts of an IT expert

πŸ”— Links: 2019-09

This is a collection of links I stumbled across and found worth sharing. Also see the blogroll for links to blogs I regularly read.


Twitter will go away one day

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It’s impressive how Zach Leatherman built an archive of all his tweets on his personal website to take ownership of them. That way all his tweets will be preserved even if Twitter goes away one day.

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Companies and their responsibility when using free software

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I know, it’s a medium.com link again, but I’m still a Medium member until my membership expires next March. OneZero has some great articles though. If you don’t have a Medium membership, open the link in a private browser tab.

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Help the environment by NOT buying a new iPhone

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Sorry for sharing a Medium.com link, but this is an article I really want to highlight.

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Codeberg: Non-profit GitHub alternative from Germany

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Just today I migrated my hosting setup and use my private Gitea instance instead of GitLab. But because this is hosted at my home, I don’t want to trust it and it’s backups completely and have a fallback too. In the past I used GitLab for such tasks, but now I’m choosing Codeberg instead.

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Do you journal?

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Just a short time ago, I wrote about my favorite journaling software rwtxt. Today I discovered the story of someone else journaling.

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Jan-Lukas Else