Jan-Lukas Else

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This is a collection of links I stumbled across and found worth sharing. Also see the blogroll for links to blogs I regularly read.


Friends must be free to choose whatever software and service they want

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This rant is great!

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Is Having an RSS Feed Just Giving Content Away for Free?

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Chris Coyier is thinking in an article on CSS-Tricks about RSS:

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LibreLingo

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LibreLingo is a relatively new open-source project that seems to be inspired by Duolingo. The demo already looks great, I learned the Spanish words β€œpan”, β€œpasta”, β€œleche” and β€œpareja”.

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Make music with Excel

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Through this article by The Verge, I discovered this YouTube video by musician Dylan Tallchief. He used Microsoft Excel to create a DAW (a digital audio workstation) called xlStudio. With that you can create entire songs in Excel spreadsheets and even export them to use them in the software suite Ableton. I don’t know much about music or music production, but this looks pretty awesome.

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CO2 emissions on the web

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Danny Van Kooten wrote an great article. He wrote how he tries to reduce the environmental impact of his WordPress plugins:

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Google Maps Hacks

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The Berlin based artist Simon Weckert has hacked Google Maps in a creative way:

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Jan-Lukas Else