Jan-Lukas Else

Jan-Lukas Else

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πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Dev: XXXX-06-08

Welcome to the Dev section of my blog with development related articles.


Monitoring my restic backups with Uptime Kuma

Published on in πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Dev

I have a couple of restic backup containers running across my servers, all based on the resticker image. It’s a basic part of every server configuration I use. Backups are executed on cron schedules. But until today, I had no visibility into whether they actually succeeded. So I had no idea one of my backups didn’t run for some weeks due to some β€œlocks” in the repository.

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Live tracking solution for OsmAnd

Published on in πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Dev

I previously shared my transition from Komoot to OsmAnd, and after some time, I’ve grown accustomed to its comprehensive capabilities. Whether for cycling, hiking, or general navigation, OsmAnd truly functions as a versatile β€œSwiss Army knife” for offline mobile navigation and tracking.

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XOR Operator in Java

Published on in πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» 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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