Chrome OS Flex and CloudReady
At first I missed the news, but today I somehow stumbled across it: Google has released an early access version of “Chrome OS Flex”, as a result of the integration of CloudReady into Chrome OS. CloudReady also ran under my radar until today, but I did take the time to give both a try. ⌘ Read more

Hi-Fi!
Deezer announced today that it is raising prices in Germany and Austria for new customers. Premium now costs 1€ more. But (for new customers) Premium also includes Hi-Fi directly. ⌘ Read more

I probably spend more CPU cycles optimizing the program than the program optimization will save in CPU cycles. 🤔 ⌘ Read more

“How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook”
I read this very long article about Telegram today and somehow it left me with mixed feelings. The article is also from WIRED, but it offers more balanced coverage than an article from a year ago. ⌘ Read more

One year with Deezer
It’s been about one year since I switched to Deezer. Yes, I switched before Spotify became uncool! 😁 So, how happy am I with Deezer today? ⌘ Read more

First impressions of my new printer
I recently bought a new printer: the Xerox B225. I discovered it by chance (while looking for a good printer) as a reduced return in an online store. Someone must have just tried it out briefly and sent it back. I’m happy! ⌘ Read more

I need to wait an hour for another train, but why wait at the train station? ⌘ Read more

It seems that mobile reception along German high-speed train routes has improved lately (at least compared to 2019). I’m sitting in an ICE 4 between Hanover and Hamburg, and I’ve initiated a speed test via USB tethering. My mobile phone contract is limited to 10 Mbps, but I seem to be able to take full advantage of that. ⌘ Read more

In search of a new printer
Update: Thanks for all the answers! I have now tried to repair the ink cartridge, now something is printed again, but somewhat blurred. I finally decided to buy a black/white laser printer with scanner, a Xerox B225 as B-ware. I will probably report… ⌘ Read more

In search of a new printer
At the moment I do not have a working printer at home. I have an inkjet printer, but due to a long period of non-use, the cartridge or the print head has dried up. If I want to print something, I have to do it in a copy store or a drugstore. This is possible, but especially if I need to print something spontaneously, or only a few pages, then the effort is annoying. ⌘ Read more

My January ‘22 in Review
Crazy, new year and yet January is already over, how time flies! What was going on? ⌘ Read more

How many things do I own?
Even though starting my job has put me in a situation where I can sometimes afford stuff just like that, and maybe buy the occasional thing without thinking much when I should have before, I still make sure to keep the number of things I own low. ⌘ Read more

My public VPS is now only accessible via SSH from my tailnet. One more possible attack vector less. ⌘ Read more

Finally sleeping better 😴
I have a very light sleep. The first brightness in the morning makes me wake up, noise from the neighbors in the evening does not let me fall asleep. No matter how late or early I go to bed, no matter how little I slept in total. ⌘ Read more

Self-hosting my calendar and contacts using Baïkal
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. ⌘ Read more

Just noticed, but I have hit the 1000 posts mark on my English blog this month! 🎉 ⌘ Read more

My blog(s) just got a new feature: A link to the current day archive (🇩🇪). There it is possible to see posts on today’s date in earlier years. Even more features are linked on my More (🇩🇪) page, by the way. ⌘ Read more

Hopefully OneUI 4 will extend the life of my smartphone
Last year I wrote about how I check the battery health of my smartphone. The app I used for that shows a notification when a certain charge level is reached that you can unplug the smartphone so it doesn’t charge to 100%. ⌘ Read more

Let’s see whether the DSL provider change goes smoothly tonight / tomorrow morning, or if I have to use my mobile hotspot tomorrow. ⌘ Read more

I just signed my own first apartment lease. 🎉 I will now have a lot to do over the next few months. 😅 ⌘ Read more

A few email thoughts…
I recently switched to Purelymail, after mentioning a long time ago that I keep an eye on the service every now and then. ⌘ Read more

Now consumer “security” software is mining cryptocurrency! ⌘ Read more

As I read “No Social Media Club”, I wonder what it would be like if I don’t share so much on my blog, what it would be like if I had never started sharing anything on the internet in the first place? 🤔 I somehow don’t have an answer to this… ⌘ Read more

Switching to Purelymail
After long consideration, I have now moved email for all but my main domain (but that’s coming too) to Purelymail. Email without bullshit. And with the “Advanced billing mode” they really only charge by usage or $10 per year with the “Simple billing”, but even with Advanced that shouldn’t be much more than $1 per month for me. ⌘ Read more

Switching to Purelymail
After long consideration, I have now moved email for all but my main domain (but that’s coming too) to Purelymail. Email without bullshit. And with the “Advanced billing mode” they really only charge by usage or $10 with the “Simple billing”, but that shouldn’t be much more than $1 per month for me. What I like most is that there is no unnecessary limit on the number of users, aliases or custom domains. 👍 ⌘ Read more

New year, new habits?!
Colin’s post yesterday inspired me to install the Loop Habit Tracker app. How did I not know about this app yet? Free, no ads, and even open source! ⌘ Read more

Finally I have implemented a kind of trash in GoBlog. When I delete a post, it is first marked as deleted and can be restored within 7 days. Unfortunately the integration with ActivityPub is not that easy. ActivityPub allows to Undo a Delete activity, but Mastodon doesn’t support that, just like Mastodon doesn’t support Updates. 🙄 ⌘ Read more

More than 8 hours until midnight and some people are already lighting firecrackers. And this although there is an extra ban on the sale of firecrackers and fireworks because of Corona. 🤦‍♂️ ⌘ Read more

My 2021 in Review
The year has almost reached its 100% progress, so it’s time again to take a look back and see what happened especially for me personally so 2021. I have written a monthly review every month (already the second year in a row), so here are the highlights of the past 12 months: ⌘ Read more

About Telegram’s new translation feature
Telegram is developing updates and new features like crazy, they just released the 12th major update this year. One of the new features is the translation of chat messages from a foreign language to your own. ⌘ Read more

“Consider SQLite”
I am convinced of SQLite. For many use cases where other databases like MySQL, MariaDB or PostgreSQL are often used, SQLite would suffice, given the right design and architecture. ⌘ Read more

I just watched “Don’t Look Up” and somehow I think it’s not unlikely that the earth will really end up like in the movie… Not by a comet, but, well, by the climate crisis. Look up! ⌘ Read more

My December ‘21 in Review
Today is not yet the last day of December, but since I still plan to write a yearly review, the monthly review comes rather two days earlier. So December… ⌘ Read more

Ntfy.sh
I subscribe to the Hacker News front page via RSS. There is a lot of stuff there that I just mark as read without taking a closer look. But sometimes something catches my eye and I take a closer look. Today “Show HN: A tool to send push notifications to your phone, written in Go” is one of them. ⌘ Read more

web0?
With all the hype (or bullshit) about “web3”, it’s good to see a counter movement as well. Whether this site is really “web0” or just pre-“Web 2++” (my term for websites overloaded with frameworks, JavaScript and CSS) remains to be debated… ⌘ Read more

Not enough tests
GoBlog’s test coverage is increasing (currently about 41%), but I keep being reminded there is nothing like enough or even too many tests. I still find some stupid bugs that aren’t covered by automatic tests. ⌘ Read more

Merry Christmas! 🎄🎅 ⌘ Read more

Instead of banging my head on Advent of Code, I coded something useful today: Text-to-Speech for GoBlog using the official Google Text-to-Speech API. When posting, an audio file is generated automatically from the post content. And, I have to praise myself for this, I documented the feature as well! 😄 ⌘ Read more

Day 16 of Advent of Code is so confusing that I will not finish today’s puzzle. I wonder if yesterday was my last day with Advent of Code, or will the puzzles become more understandable and easier again in the next few days? Maybe I’m just more the practical type. I like programming, but such complex algorithms are not really my thing. And in the end, Advent of Code is supposed to be fun… ⌘ Read more

“The Web Is Fucked”
Kev Quirk has written a manifesto showing what bothers him about today’s web: ⌘ Read more

How I checked the battery health of my Android phone 🔋
My smartphone, a Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite, which has been my daily driver for a year and a few months, has a 4500mAh Li-Po battery (“lithium-ion polymer” – like lithium-ion, but with solid or gel-like electrolytes that allow a thinner design). My smartphone can be charged with a maximum of 45 watts. The included charger, which I always use for charging, delivers a maximum of 25 watts. ⌘ Read more

Every good blogging system should have an option to schedule posts for later! GoBlog now has such a feature as well. And this is the first scheduled post. 😀 ⌘ Read more

“What would a real Web3 look like?”
Matt Baer, found of write.as, compares the web3 with his vision of how a real Web 3.0 could look like. ⌘ Read more

Thank you for featuring my blog in your latest “Advent of Bloggers” post and your kind words, James! 🤓 ⌘ Read more

Today I learned that there is a new version 2 of Docker Compose. Docker Compose is now no longer a Python app, but a CLI plugin for Docker written in Go. And there is a Compose specification. ⌘ Read more

Micro.blog’s new newsletter feature
I think the new micro.blog feature for newsletters is the right approach. Blog first, newsletter second. But newsletters are not difficult to set up, they only need to be activated by a checkbox. ⌘ Read more

Building Docker images in Drone CI using Docker-in-Docker
This evening I tried to improve the build process of GoBlog. GoBlog gets built using Drone CI and Docker. The problem was that two image variants are to be built, one based on the other, and the whole thing always took quite a long time. ⌘ Read more

Walking and listening to an audiobook 😌🚶‍♂️🎙️📚 ⌘ Read more

I’ve never really done test-driven development (TDD). But Advent of Code offers the perfect opportunity for that, because there is already an example input and an example result. So it is possible to create a test first and program until the test passes. ⌘ Read more

It’s time again to ask my followers: I have my homepage jlelse.dev, but I’m thinking about using jlelse.com for a more professional and appealing website about me. I can program, but my design skills are somewhat limited. What should I use to design and create the site? I used Carrd a couple of years ago. But are there any other recommendations? ⌘ Read more