Jan-Lukas Else

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Welcome to the Thoughts section of my blog. Thoughts are better kept on my blog than on Twitter or other online platforms.


My current multi-phone strategy

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Reply to: A comment by Jerry

I also have multiple phones (a Pixel and an iPhone), and when reading about others who use multiple phones I'm always curious: how do you handle data and phone numbers? Do you have a sim card that you move around, do you have multiple sims, or do you use one phone as your "main" phone and then use wi-fi or hotspot using the others when you need to?I've personally enjoyed having two phones, and since I do dev work on both it's nice to keep up with both OSes, but juggling is sometimes a struggl…

In response to a question a commenter named Jerry asked, I want to briefly explain my multi-phone strategy.

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A bike ride to reset

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After a tough last weekend, a little cold, and bad weather, I was really exhausted and not in the best mood this week. But I knew the weather would be great on Friday, so I planned a bike tour. A 47-kilometer round trip north where there aren’t many hills.

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Improving my DIY skills

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Why don’t I post much lately? I’m getting my hands more and more dirty – literally.

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Is it a bad buy?

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Some weeks ago, I wrote about my first experiences with Proxmox, which I had been playing with to make use of an old, small-size desktop PC. I also considered virtualizing my home router. A few weeks later, a small “firewall appliance” (just a mini PC with an Intel N150 CPU and four 2.5 GbE ports) from the brand Topton arrived, along with a used 16 GB DDR5 memory stick and a 1 TB NVMe, both of which I had ordered separately. This was the setup intended to run my virtualized router.

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Bike bug fixing

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Yesterday and today, I was busy with some “bug fixing.” Not on computer code, but on my beloved bike – the one from that incident last month that sent me to the hospital for an X-ray.

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Tackling a long overdue task

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Given that AI agents and GitHub Copilot is an integral part of my work day nowadays, I decided to tackle a massive task I neclected for too long. AI should now help me with it: writing entirely new and better documentation for GoBlog.

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What else can I automate?

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Two days ago, I needed a tool for some automation. I want to regularly download a newspaper PDF from a tool provided by my local library. That PDF should be uploaded to my PicoShare instance, and then an email with the link should be sent.

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I need to migrate away from Telegram

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I will migrate away from Telegram. Enough is enough. After more and more features are behind the Telegram Premium paywall (which I understand to a degree) and the increasing integration of stars (a crypto scheme? — I have less understanding for that), now also Grok from xAI by right-wing extremist Elon Musk will be integrated.

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Investing in comfort

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Getting ready for Scotland involved buying some gear – next to the required things also a headlamp, a powerbank and Merino clothes. On the surface, maybe a bit much. Did I need a new powerbank? Technically no, but the right size makes a difference for tracking, navigating, and tent-charging on a trip like this. Merino? It means less sweat, less odor, more comfort over days of exploring.

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Copilot taking over?

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I tried GitHub Copilot (Free) in Visual Studio Code again for some small GoBlog changes. Copilot can now generate tests (although it doesn’t feel intelligent, as you need to correct quite a few things), it can do code reviews before committing and it can generate commit messages. Of course, it can also do code completions and write complete code, if you want it to do so.

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