Jan-Lukas Else

Jan-Lukas Else

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πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Dev: XXXX-XX-28

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


A better Postman alternative: Hoppscotch

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I used to use Postman for both personal and work projects. It was great for making HTTP requests without having to create curl commands. But now, Postman requires a login, which I hate. I don’t understand why a login is needed for such a simple tool.

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Ditching Pocket Premium: Streamline link saving with Telegram

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For the past two years, I’ve been using Pocket to save links that I want to revisit later. However, as my yearly subscription is about to expire, I’ve started thinking about finding a free alternative that offers the features I actually use, without paying for unnecessary extras.

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How I automatically create my blogroll

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I just updated my blogroll and thought that it might be a great idea to share my workflow to do exactly that. I use Miniflux a lot. Using Miniflux, I read all the blogs and get all the news, get updates from all the YouTubers and even subscribe to some Mastodon accounts (fediverse microblogs). I use multiple categories to sort the feeds. One of those categories is β€œBlogs” with all the blogs, which I also list on my blogroll.

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Netlify isn’t as bad as I thought it would be

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When I wrote, that I switched from a Ghost-based blog to a static site generated by Hugo, I made the following statement:

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