jlelse's comments

jlelse | 2 months ago | on: Ask HN: Share your personal website

jlelse | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

I use the Opencomm in my quite home office as well. No hot ears anymore. :D

jlelse | 3 years ago | on: Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues

It's not just the date picker in Safari. iOS in general... I don't get it why I need to uninstall and reinstall an app from the app store when I want to clean the app's data like I can easily do on Android. Why is there no way to clean caches? Instead a big chunck of the storage is filled with "other system files". And the keyboard is so error prone as well, I always do spelling mistakes or need hours to type short texts. At least it's just my work phone...

jlelse | 3 years ago | on: BundesMessenger, a secure messenger for Germany’s public administration

You can use the "Online-Personalausweis" for quite some things actually. For example to authenticate at banks, so you don't have to do Video-Ident. Or to do taxes etc. I wrote a post about it earlier this year: https://b.jlel.se/s/59c

jlelse | 3 years ago | on: Bunny AI

I wish they would finally release their S3 support for storage. (https://jlelse.blog/links/2022/12/bunny-ai)

jlelse | 3 years ago | on: Use NextDNS everywhere you use Tailscale

Do you plan to support custom DoH/DoT endpoints?

jlelse | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?

My blog (jlelse.blog) is absolutely worth it for me for the following reasons:

1. I enjoy sharing things with the world. 2. I got to know a lot of people who wrote me mails because I posted something. Some really nice connections with people from all over the world. 3. I learned a new programming language by developing my own blog software. 4. In job interviews I can tell about developing my own blog software with new technologies.

But I just post when I want to and what I want to. That can range from tutorials to just a casual images I took when walking through my neighborhood.

jlelse | 3 years ago | on: GitHub Copilot is generally available

$60/hr? Maybe in the US, but really uncommon even in western countries like Germany.

jlelse | 3 years ago | on: The integrated timetable of Switzerland

Yes, but in Germany you probably don't travel 8 times as much.

jlelse | 3 years ago | on: High speed train between Paris and Berlin could start operating as soon as 2023

That's great news!

But there are already train routes with >6 hours in Germany. I sometimes take the train from Berlin to Basel (CH) from just a few stops away from Berlin and when there are no problems that's a 6 hour trip. With the car that would be >7 hours.

jlelse | 3 years ago | on: Mastodon – A Federated Twitter Alternative

Thanks for the tip! I have a Nitter instance, but didn't know about this.

jlelse | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Have you used SQLite as a primary database?

I'm using SQLite for my blogging engine (https://goblog.app). Easy backups, easy testing, light resource usage and probably faster than a separate database.

jlelse | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?

Contentful was hacked and leaked my email.

jlelse | 4 years ago | on: I’m Disappointed with 1Password

Just use Bitwarden.

jlelse | 4 years ago | on: Why I will never buy another Samsung device

I am very happy with my S10 Lite as well, also received Android 12 recently. With some PC software it's possible to uninstall Bixby and the other bloatware even without rooting.

jlelse | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers

I'm ok with that, not everyone has to like my blogging style.

jlelse | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers

Shameless, but I'm a programmer and this is my blog: https://jlelse.blog/

jlelse | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Alternate Email hosting to G Suite

Purelymail has calendar syncing using CalDAV.

jlelse | 4 years ago | on: The New York Times buys Wordle

I hope this ends the hype. I'm a bit annoyed seeing Wordle guesses everywhere online.

jlelse | 4 years ago | on: Gov.uk Platform as a Service

Thankfully that changed since 2020. Now many bakeries accept cards.