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.


Two articles about awesome SQLite projects

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I found two SQLite related articles in my Pocket list, which I wanted to share.

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Another (more powerful) IFTTT alternative: n8n

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Through a tutorial posted on Hacker News, I just came across another alternative to IFTTT and especially Zapier. IFTTT costs money now (at least pretty quickly when you get into the subject matter) and Zapier is not that cheap either. n8n is a good open source solution when it comes to workflow automation and is probably a lot more powerful compared to IFTTT too.

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β€œWhy The Web Is Such A Mess”

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Tom Scott made a great video about β€œWhy The Web Is Such A Mess”, explaining cookies and GDPR in a simple way.

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Please consider full content feeds

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Kev Quirk wrote a great article about why having β€œfull post RSS feeds” is a good idea. It’s mainly because then people can use a feed reader, customize it to their personal preferences (font, contrast and other accessibility features) and read the content in their preferred way.

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CO2 emissions on the web

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Danny Van Kooten wrote an great article. He wrote how he tries to reduce the environmental impact of his WordPress plugins:

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Google AMP Can Go To Hell

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This article is from 2018, but it’s so true! It contains a lot of good reasons why Google AMP is bad for the health of the web. To do my part, I don’t implement AMP for my sites.

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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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