I have been a full-time software developer for over a year now. Iâve since settled in well in the job, and Iâm getting along better and better, even if the topics are sometimes still quite complex and difficult to understand, especially when it comes to âhistorically grownâ things.
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After a bit of consideration and a poll on Fosstodon, which shows a clear result even before it ends, I decided to rename this blog from âjlelseâs Blog â Thoughts, stories and ideasâ to âJan-Lukas Else â Thoughts of an IT expertâ. Likewise, my German blog from âeinGeek â Mehr als nur Internet und Programmierenâ to âJan-Lukas Else â Gedanken eines IT-Expertenâ.
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After being cut off from DSL for about 30 hours, I finally have landline Internet again. On the one hand, it makes me angry that the provider didnât solve this faster (the whole street with hundreds of residents was offline), but on the other hand, it also showed me my dependence on the Internet. I could not really do anything, not even watch TV, because that is also only possible via the Internet. After my vacation, I will take care of creating redundancy via LTE to be safe from such failuresâŚ
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In my IndieWeb bubble, this essay by Robin Rendle about newsletters has been circulating for a few days. It says newsletters have killed blogs, blogs are too complex and newsletters are the future, because they are easier (or at least thatâs how I understood it).
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Recently, there has been a lot of talk in my blog bubble about email self-hosting again (here is one example, here is a second one). I myself switched to a self-hosted mail server over a year ago, only to switch back to a hosted version a few months later.
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Today was Global Climate Strike. I wasnât able to attend the strike in my city personally, because I wasnât able to not go to work today and had a long train travel this afternoon and evening.
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