Free AI coding credits
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While you can spend endless money on AI coding tools, I’m known for being a money-saver (I even secured the sparzauberer.de domain, which is translatable to savings wizard).
2026
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Welcome, Kev, to the group of bloggers building their own blogging systems because all other options didn’t exactly fit their needs! 😄
Even though Kev is no professional developer, the project looks remarkable! Maybe not being a professional developer is what prevents you from simply building just another blogging system tailored towards developers. It took me five years to finally write good (or at least somewhat good) documentation. Kev did it right away for Pure Blog (also with videos!).
Is it your final blog migration, Kev? I also migrated my blog a couple of times before I started building GoBlog. Since then I haven’t thought once about migrating again, as whenever I have the need for a new feature or some change, I can simply implement it myself.
Vibe-coding our wedding website
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For our wedding, I planned to develop a small site where guests can get more information, confirm their attendance, and view and upload photos. I started the base for that website in August and also bought a domain a few months ago. But I didn’t finish the coding. The design shouldn’t be as simple as my blog’s design, and I chose Angular for the frontend, as I also wanted to strengthen my Angular skills for professional reasons. Later, I wanted to build the backend using some n8n workflows.
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I finally moved my blog to the new domain. I wrote extensive code and integration tests in GoBlog to ensure nothing breaks and to move all ActivityPub followers to the new handles, but you never know. 🙈 So far it’s looking good though… Hello from janlukas.blog! 👋
My January ‘26 in Review
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January is now behind us, making it the first month of 2026 to come to a close. Time to take a quick look back.
Integration-testing GoBlog’s ActivityPub implementation
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Recently, I noticed in my blog database export that a couple of ActivityPub users unfollowed. All at the same time. It was strange. Until I noticed all were GoToSocial (GTS) users. In the logs I found the reason: GoBlog failed to deliver some updates to the users, and so the accounts were marked as dead and removed after twenty failed tries.
The gym is already at home
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My new piece of fitness equipment is finally here. In all its glory, standing there to remind me every day to get a workout in. Now I don’t even have to go to the gym, because the gym is already at home.
🖼️ View
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New year, new fitness motivation? I ordered a foldable pull-up and dip power tower. 😅 Let’s see if it is actually foldable enough to not take too much space in the apartment. And let’s see if it’s just going to be another piece of fitness equipment being mostly unused.
The pull-up bar for the door frame that I used in Kassel unfortunately doesn’t work with the doors in this apartment. And I’ve screwed enough things into the walls to know that the walls here are a disaster.
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I couldn’t resist buying a new domain! 👀
I chose janlukas.blog as I’m considering rebranding my online presence. I want to move away from the nickname jlelse towards a stylized version of my first name. It also feels much more future-proof, especially if I end up taking my future wife’s last name.
What will probably be even more difficult than deciding on a surname is moving the blog. Moving an ActivityPub instance to a new domain is no easy task. (If you have already done that, please tell me how.)
Fun fact: While Jan and Lukas have long been the top boys’ names in Germany, the name Jan-Lukas with a hyphen is not that common after all. janlukas.de and jan-lukas.de were also still available, before I registered them.
When did I start blogging?
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When I rewrote my “About Me” page some days ago, I was thinking about how long I’ve already been blogging. My thought was 2016, so about 10 years. But reading about another blog birthday piqued my interest again, and I did some more research.