Jan-Lukas Else

Tech, life and everything else

2023


My cheap alternative to Ngrok

Published on in 👨‍💻 Dev

Since GoBlog has an Auto-HTTPS feature that can automatically retrieve HTTPS certificates via ACME from e.g. Let’s Encrypt, I need a public IP address with which I can reach my test instance of GoBlog via port 80 and 443.

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Published on in 💬 Micro
📍 Südstadt, Kassel, Hesse, Germany

The obligatory photo. Not frozen anymore. 🌞

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One reason I (have to) keep WhatsApp installed: It seems to be becoming more common for companies to offer support through it if you don’t want to call a hotline. ~50% of my chats are support chats. 🤔

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My February ‘23 in Review

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And again a month is over, the shortest of the year. Here is my short monthly review.

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50% (24 out of 48) of the workouts of my first Freeletics “training journey” completed! 🤓💪

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mox Mail Server

Published on in 🔗 Links

I currently use Purelymail for email. It’s very cheap and does everything I need (“purely email”). I’m also happy that I’m free of all the headaches of having a good IP reputation and setting everything up so that my mail doesn’t end up in junk folders.

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New professional website

Published on in 💬 Micro

I’m always programming on my blogging software, so today I decided to do something different. With the help of ChatGPT, which wrote the basic HTML and CSS template, I created a new resume website, which is basically a copy of everything I put on my LinkedIn profile.

I am not looking for a new job, but I was thinking about making better use of my jlelse.com domain, which I have already renewed for many more years. And that seems like a good idea.

And it was actually quite fun to write some basic HTML and CSS and host the site files on Bunny.net. There I use Bunny Storage, Bunny DNS and of course Bunny CDN. 🐰

As for my job: I finally passed the probationary period. 😄

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Microsoft Office and OneDrive for free?

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I’m a bit of an indecisive (and frugal) person sometimes.

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Nice, the number of GoBlog users is growing! 🤓 The next step is a growing number of GoBlog developers. It would be great to have more people giving advice on how to improve the code. 😅 Any senior Go devs out there?

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How I archive my favorite TV show to get rid of Amazon Prime

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I’m a fan of the German TV series “Notruf Hafenkante”, which is shown on the public broadcaster ZDF and is also available on their website. New episodes are released weekly, and older episodes are also made available on a regular basis. After a few months, however, they are no longer available for free. At the moment I have to buy an extra subscription for a Prime Video Channel to be able to watch all the old episodes. But that makes me dependent on Amazon, and I don’t like that.

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