Jan-Lukas Else

Thoughts of an IT expert

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Published on 2023-05-27 in 💬 Micro

Google Bard or BingGPT are actually quite useful to answer simple questions without having to scroll through many pages of clickbait and AI-generated babble blogposts. I’m currently preparing for the AWS exam (I finally signed up!) and Google Bard explained the differences between Cognito User Pools and Cognito Identity Pools in a simple and understandable way. Even with a tabular overview and examples how to use both services. Now my knowledge is refreshed again. 😄

I miss running

Published on 2023-04-27 in 💭 Thoughts

I’ve talked about this a few times and posted some of the pictures OneDrive shows me every day. Photos taken on the same day, week or month in previous years. It always gives me a “throwback” and I think about the situation at the time I took the photo.

🖼️ View

Published on 2023-04-27 in 💬 Micro

I deleted my Twitter account a long time ago, but sometimes I still used Nitter to search Twitter or we linked tweets. I decided to stop that and removed Nitter from my home server and added “twitter.com” to the deny list at NextDNS. There are too many reasons to list here.

And I replaced deCONZ for my ConBee II ZigBee adapter with Zigbee Home Automation in Home Assistant. Seems much more stable and one less piece of software to worry about.

Spring cleaning? 🧹

Bitwarden Unified

Published on 2022-12-27 in 💭 Thoughts

Bitwarden (my favorite and recommended password manager) is offering a “new deployment option”. This new option combines all microservices into a single Docker container and doesn’t require 11 different containers anymore. And it supports PostgreSQL and MariaDB in addition to MS SQL.

DeepL Write

Published on 2022-11-27 in 🔗 Links

I’m a big fan of DeepL for translations. Before trying to write more blog posts directly in English to improve my skills, I wrote many blog posts in German and then translated them. The texts were probably better than my non-native English.

“Bloggers, Dump Your Twitter Card Tags”

Published on 2022-11-27 in 🔗 Links

It’s crazy to think how much bandwidth is being used by metadata tags. Every company wants to invent it’s own new system. Wouter Groeneveld gives a brief overview and recommends getting rid of them (for the most part). I agree with him completely. The only one of these systems that my blog supports is Microformats, which is quite popular among the IndieWeb community.

Published on 2022-11-27 in 💬 Micro

My websites have finally favicons again. And I can update them using a simple web interface. 😄

sqlite3 fiddle

Published on 2022-05-27 in 🔗 Links

With all my SQL and SQLite posts, this link is probably also quite interesting: sqlite3 fiddle.

Published on 2022-03-27 in 💬 Micro

Tabs versus Spaces? Tabs!

But I prefer neither Vim nor Emacs, but VSCode, nano and Notepad++. 🙈

Self-hosting my calendar and contacts using Baïkal

Published on 2022-01-27 in ✍️ Posts

I recently moved my emails to Purelymail. And since I also used the contacts and calendar synchronization feature of my previous email provider, I also transferred the contacts and calendar entries to Purelymail via WebDAV using WinSCP.