Today I worked for the first time in a very long time (about a year) for a few hours (alone) in the office at my company. My internet provider suddenly had a major outage, and since I work mainly on a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), it didnāt work without an internet connection. But everything worked at the office and when the internet worked again at home, this exceptional experience was already over and I went back again.
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Itās probably time to tell you about my blogging workflow one year later (hereās how it was in 2019). And I saw other people writing about their writing workflow. What a meta topicā¦
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On my way to cross the countryā¦ (with mask and distance of course! š·)
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Finally I have an external wireless mouse and keyboard (Logitech MK235) for my work computer, so I can connect it to my monitor at home. Hopefully this will have a positive effect on my eyes and my posture, always working on a laptop is quite exhausting.
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@jan Itās a user agent with JavaScript enabled, because thatās what sends the page view to my statistics tool. And itās just my homepage (jlelse.dev) and not the home page from my blog. I wonāt rate limit though, my site is cached using BunnyCDN and as long as it doesnāt cause gigabytes of traffic, Iāll just let things as they are.
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I donāt know whatās the reason for that, but for the last few days someone with Windows 8.1 and what seems like the latest version of Chrome (at least thatās what the User-Agent string is telling) is messing up my homepage stats with hundreds of visits per day. Maybe itās because jlelse.eu redirects there, which has a quite high Alexa rank and someone is scraping the site every few minutes? š¤
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Nextcloud Notes is my favorite note-taking app that allows me to sync notes across devices using my Nextcloud instance. I donāt like to limit my notes to just one computer, I need to be able to access them from anywhere, whether thatās my desktop computer, my laptop or my phone. And I choose a self-hosted Nextcloud, because then I can also choose any other file editor to edit the notes.
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I use Strava as my tracking app on runs. I used to use Runtastic (now Adidas Running), but unfortunately there is no native app for my Samsung Galaxy Watch. But since Strava has now implemented some more restrictions for free users and Iāve been toying with the idea that I need a different system to own my run data (self-hosted) for a while anyway, Iāve now started to program something myself (as always when my desired solution doesnāt existā¦).
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Fortunately I have a pretty high traffic limit, which I would never reach with my VPS at Hetzner Cloud, but BunnyCDN now offers a new feature called āOrigin Shieldā, which can help to significantly reduce traffic to your own server by adding a second cache layer between edge server and the origin. Nice! š
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I just added the feature to my blog that allows you to have any article read to you. For some articles I already add an MP3 file with a natural sounding pronunciation, but now it is also possible to get articles read aloud that donāt have an MP3 file (if the browser and operating system support this).
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