Jan-Lukas Else

Tech, life and everything else

2019


A new “Share” option

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Thanks to AddToAny, there’s now a “Share” option on my blog. If you find an article share-worthy, simply click on that link and select how to share this article. It should be pretty simple.

In Hugo I use the following line of code to create a share link:

<a href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url={{ .Permalink }}{{ with .Title }}&title={{ . }}{{ end }}" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">{{ T "share" }}</a>

{{ T "share" }} is a translation string, but if you don’t care about translations, simply replace this with your preferred string.

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All the Nextcloud apps I use

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These are the Nextcloud apps that are activated on my Nextcloud instance:

  • Accessibility: Has an option to activate a dark theme
  • Activity: It’s really nice to have an activity log of created, changed and deleted files
  • Brute-force settings
  • Calendar
  • Checksum: Lets you calculate checksum of files
  • Deck: I often use this when organizing the learning for exams
  • Deleted files
  • File sharing
  • Gallery
  • Log Reader
  • Markdown Editor
  • Metadata: Lets you see metadata of pictures etc.
  • Monitoring
  • Notes: I use it for all my notes, there’s a great Android app
  • Notifications
  • Optical character recognition
  • PDF viewer
  • Preview Generator: Lets you pre-generate preview images of new photos via a Cronjob
  • Privacy
  • Right click
  • Share by mail
  • Tasks: I don’t really use it, but it may be a good alternative to Todoist and other tasks managers
  • Text: Nextcloud’s new text editor. It’s really nice and supports markdown
  • Theming
  • Versions
  • Video player
  • Viewer

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How to start the day well

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Today I got up at 7 am (although I could have slept a little longer) and instead of eating breakfast, I started directly turning on my PC and finishing an open programming assignment. It took me about an hour, but after finishing it, I felt so good.

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Automatic Webmention sending

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My dynamic Hugo backend (it’s not just Micropub anymore) should now send Webmention requests automatically after publishing a post. I first thought about using the Telegraph API for that, but then just took the webmention library written in Go by Will Norris.

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ActivityPub support for my blog?

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I just found this article on how to create a basic ActivityPub server. It let’s me think about adding ActivityPub support to my hugo-micropub project (which then becomes more than just a Micropub endpoint for my Hugo setup). It’s definitely a project I finally want start once I’m done with this semester.

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iPrivacy

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Matt Baer, the creator of the writing platform write.as, writes about Apple’s privacy focused marketing and how that doesn’t matter when your iPhone is full of apps like Facebook, Instagram or Google.

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Some thoughts about LibreOffice vs. Microsoft Office

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I usually prefer using LibreOffice over Microsoft Office because it’s free / libre software and I can use it on Linux. However, while writing a seminar paper, I noticed one feature that LibreOffice Writer is missing and that made me use Microsoft Word for the paper: literature index.

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Please put dates ABOVE your posts

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To all fellow bloggers,

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Creating an Instagram archive on my website

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Yesterday, I wrote it’s time to stop using Facebook, and I wrote about how I’m still using Instagram and WhatsApp.

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Maybe it’s time to stop using Facebook

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I deleted my Facebook account back in 2017. If you still have an Facebook account, maybe think again if you really need it. There’s this site and Kev Quirk also wrote a list of reasons why using Facebook might be a bad idea.

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