Jan-Lukas Else

Thoughts of an IT expert

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


Making RSS more visible again with a /feeds page

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Marcus Herrmann suggests using a /feeds page on your blog to list all the available (RSS) feeds to follow you.

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Blogging is easy

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If I had to make a list of my 5 favorite blogs, Weekly Musings by Scott Nesbitt would be included. Issue 72 is about blogging:

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Music I listen to

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In April, I wrote:

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reveal.js

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Someone reminded me about reveal.js and I just took a look at the project site. It seems like reveal.js got a completely new website and a major update to version 4. I already used reveal.js for a few slides and liked it. However I didn’t consider it for my recent university presentations, because there I needed a PDF version of my slides (and the PDF export somehow didn’t work quite well with my past slides) and I didn’t really had the time to experiment. Next time I will try reveal.js again.

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Best Motherf*cking Website

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I don’t really like the language of this website (it would also have been possible to communicate the content in more civilised language), but I agree with the content:

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Obese websites and planet-sized metronomes

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Kevin Galligan wrote a metronome with HTML, CSS and JS, which has a total size of less than 1 KB. Because the existing ones were as large as 11 MB without more functionality. In the accompanying blog post he rants about the modern web (with data-based proofs) and explains how he achieved to make the metronome app as small as 1 KB.

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Photoprism 📸

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I’m currently “managing” (or better say storing) my photos using Nextcloud. Whenever I take photos with the camera, I copy them to a YEAR/MONTH based folder structure. Also the photos from my phone get automatically uploaded to a folder with all phone photos.

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Aptoide is right, but wrong too

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James Fenn published a blog about Aptoide’s campaign against Google’s “anti-competitive behavior”.

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Be nice to Free Software maintainers!

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In march Georges Stavracas wrote a blog on being a Free Software maintainer. Although he is very passionate about being one, he also experiences people who don’t understand that most Free Software maintainers spent their free time for those projects:

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You should make a blog!

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I found Drew’s website when he announced the opening of his git hosting alternative sourcehut. He has recently made the move to work full time on open source and often writes very interesting and deep technical articles on his blog.

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