Inspired by Henrique Dias and his “Watches” page, I added such a site to my website too. I’m not using a tracking service to collect the data though, but write down everything manually. Although doing it automagically is pretty cool. I just try to keep things under my own control and don’t want to start to depend on yet another service.

For entries I try to link to The Movie Database, a more open alternative to Amazon’s IMDb. When shows or movies are note available there, I’ll link to the streaming platform’s detail page or another adequate website.

I watch a lot more movies and shows lately and so I want to keep track of it.

I finally took the time to fix the reading feature on my blog (the “Read to me, please!” button below the title). Initially, I used the property textContent to get the text content from the DOM element, but I figured out that it’s better to use innerText for this purpose. Read this article on the differences.

I also made the script to not block the rendering anymore by removing it from the critical request chain.

Some people don’t wear their mask over mouth and nose.

That’s something I don’t understand at all. If some people wear masks, why don’t they wear them right? I see that sometimes when I go for a walk alone. People pass by me who have a mask over their mouth, but their nose is not covered.

In order to generally avoid the narrowness in the supermarket more, I now only go shopping once a week at most and drive to a supermarket that is much bigger and where one can keep more distance than in the supermarket around the corner. Another advantage: The offer is also much better and there are still more of the things I want to buy. (But they didn’t have toilet paper either.)

I think I have never written so many emails during my entire studies as in the last few weeks. But hey, I like to write emails and I’m really glad that my studies are continuing despite Corona (and therefore without any attendance events). Especially the flexibility that I can schedule most things freely is really good. I have not yet quite decided how I will proceed after my studies, but the idea of correspondence courses (possibly alongside work) sounds quite tempting.

regex101.com is my favorite tool for testing and debugging regular expressions too. It can even generate code. 🤓 Very nice tool! 👍

It seems like I’m currently a bit obsessed with creating new Go-based projects. Yesterday, I announced my new Telegram channel, where it’s possible to receive notifications about new entries on my blog (I created another channel for the German posts too). First, I tried to use IFTTT, but somehow IFTTT’s behavior is a bit unpredictable and I thought it’s probably easier to just code my own solution. It was only a task of about an hour, but now it works the way I want it to work. To trigger updates on the Telegram channel, I configured my blog build pipeline (I use Drone CI to build and publish my blog) to always make a webhook request to my new tool after the updated site got deployed to the server. I have to say that the Telegram Bot API is a really nice and simple API. Sending a message is done with just a single HTTP call. Although there are a couple of libraries that can do that too, I noticed it’s easier to just write some simple code for the request myself.

It was a very spontaneous decision, but it is now possible to follow my blog via Telegram: https://jlel.se/tgblog