Jan-Lukas Else

Tech, life and everything else

2021


Tests for GoBlog

Published on in 💭 Thoughts

Recently I’ve been investing more time in refactoring and creating unit and integration tests for GoBlog. After all, I don’t want to just make sure my blog is working properly through trial and error, I want to be able to prove that with automated tests.

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Organic Maps

Published on in 🔗 Links

There is a new option for mobile offline maps: Organic Maps. This app is based on the source code of maps.me, before the acquisition last year.

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Published on in 💬 Micro
📍 Auepark, Kassel, Germany

I enjoyed a nice weekend with my girlfriend in Kassel. ❤️

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Blogging as a by-product

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Zan in his recent article with tips on blogging:

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Published on in 💬 Micro

Today’s Homebrew Website Club inspired me to implement two new GoBlog features:

  1. Support for OpenSearch: I can now use my blogs and diary as a search engine in Firefox.
  2. An easter egg. Do you remember Konami Code? 😉

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XOR Operator in Java

Published on in 👨‍💻 Dev

At work today I came across an Eclipse feature for cleaning up Java code. It helps you to improve the code, for example to add final to attributes or parameters, or to improve boolean expressions.

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Another wide-angle impression in the evening. 🏙️

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The neighborhood is becoming quite green. 🌳🏡

And summer is coming. I’m going for a little walk after it has rained heavily.

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Simply cache form fields in localStorage

Published on in 👨‍💻 Dev

Have you ever started typing something into a web form and then you accidentally closed the browser and lost everything you typed there? Because of that I usually use an external text editor for long posts and later copy the text into my blog editor.

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My 💭 on 💉 posts

Published on in 💭 Thoughts

One upside to my social media non-use: I have to look at a lot fewer pictures with 🩹 on arms or posts with 💉 emojis.

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Jan-Lukas Else