I refactored GoBlog to avoid global variables wherever possible (with the goal to make it easier to create unit tests) and I hope I didn’t introduce any new bugs. 🤞

The new Firefox design arrived. My first impression: The tab bar looks a bit weird, especially with just one tab open. But all in all it looks more modern and reminds me of the Firefox Android version. I think I like it. 🤔

Of course there will be many, many people crying about the new design and telling everyone, that they will stop using Firefox…

I am finally done with the exams and presentations for this semester! Next semester is bachelor. 🙈

restic is my tool of choice to do backups. I’m just eagerly waiting for this a(a)wsome PR to get merged and a new version released! I’m backing up my Nextcloud (currently ~50 GB), but I never pruned the backup and now the backup is taking up more than 160 GB. That’s still just peanuts with Backblaze B2 as online storage, but I like to have things clean and tidy and a prune is overdue.

My site is back now (Hetzner experienced problems with the CEPH storage - I might switch servers to their new CPX line soon).

The TikTokJsonFeed tool works great, I just have to regularly update things to keep it working. TikTok likes changing their website and API all the time, but fortunately there is a community that keeps the scraper up-to-date.

There are times when you want to look at something on GitHub on the go. The previous mobile web experience was terrible, but with the latest redesign, the new mobile web experience is finally usable. 🎉 By usable I mean usable, but not necessarily good. I think GitHub still has some room for improvement.

Congratulations! It is exciting to see that some people run websites that are (almost) as old as I am. In 2000 I was just one year old. What will the Internet look like in another 20 years?

I bought myself a cheap glass jug to always have enough water in reach. Stay hydrated! 🚰

@jan It’s a user agent with JavaScript enabled, because that’s what sends the page view to my statistics tool. And it’s just my homepage (jlelse.dev) and not the home page from my blog. I won’t rate limit though, my site is cached using BunnyCDN and as long as it doesn’t cause gigabytes of traffic, I’ll just let things as they are.

I don’t know what’s the reason for that, but for the last few days someone with Windows 8.1 and what seems like the latest version of Chrome (at least that’s what the User-Agent string is telling) is messing up my homepage stats with hundreds of visits per day. Maybe it’s because jlelse.eu redirects there, which has a quite high Alexa rank and someone is scraping the site every few minutes? 🤔