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Jan-Lukas Else
Personal blog · jlelse.blogprogrammingproductivity
Jan-Lukas Else's personal blog at jlelse.blog covers programming and productivity. Since 2019, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 95 times, most often “Email is the messenger you should migrate to”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jan-Lukas Else's posts on leaving Chrome, Google as an ad engine, ActivityPub with Hugo, and email sending. Most comments cite the posts as sources, and one points readers to his email post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog by Jan-Lukas Else with personal thoughts, stories, and notes from everyday life – but also tech, software development, and self-hosting.
Most-linked posts?
- Email is the messenger you should migrate to4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-01-14
- A Few Email Thoughts2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-11
- Go-shutdowner: Simple graceful shutdowns in Go2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-19
- Search Personal Sites2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-18
- Re: “Stupid Light Software”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-28
- My new coding workflow: VS Code and Remote-SSH extension2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-26
- Why I no longer host my emails myself2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-20
What Hacker News says?
Same. And there are still a lot of people blogging as well: https://jlelse.blog/blogroll
Comment linking /blogroll
on “I Still Use RSS”Submitted Email is the messenger you should migrate to as a story · 20 points
HN discussionMy blog is https://jlelse.blog/ . I write about a lot of different things. It's my platform. What other people would use Twitter for, I use my blog.
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on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted Help the environment by not buying a new iPhone as a story · 19 points
HN discussionCheck out my blogroll: https://jlelse.blog/blogroll Do you have blogrolls as well?
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted Why is the market share of Firefox in Germany so much higher? as a story · 18 points
HN discussionThere are good reasons not to use brave: - received venture capital from Peter Thiel (Chairman of Palantir) - BAT tokens aren't backed by any real value - https://jlelse.blog/posts/ditch-chrome/ More reasons: https://twitter.com/corbindavenport/status/11341432093896663...
Comment linking /posts/ditch-chrome/
on “Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center”Submitted Help the environment by NOT buying a new iPhone (2019) as a story · 12 points
HN discussionUrl changed from https://jlelse.blog/links/2019/12/google-ad-engine/ , which points to this.
Comment linking /links/2019/12/google-ad-engine/
on “Google is not a search engine, but an ad engine”Submitted GitHub still doesn't support IPv6 as a story · 11 points
HN discussionJust setup your own mail server using mailcow for example. Pretty easy and awesome for privacy. I did it too: https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2019/mail-server/
Comment linking /thoughts/2019/mail-server/
on “Gmail tracks the history of things you buy, and it’s hard to delete”Submitted Gitea Container Registry as a story · 8 points
HN discussionOn iOS Telegram uses a system API, but on Android they seem to try to avoid the high Google Cloud fees: https://jlelse.blog/posts/telegram-translation
Comment linking /posts/telegram-translation
on “How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API”Submitted Migrating Away from Cloudflare as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThis reminds me about Americentrism: https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2021/02/americentrism America first!
Comment linking /thoughts/2021/02/americentrism
on “ISO 8601: a better date format”Submitted (IMHO) Apple Sucks as a story · 7 points
HN discussionShameless, but I'm a programmer and this is my blog: https://jlelse.blog/
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on “Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers”Submitted Why I no longer host my emails myself as a story · 7 points
HN discussionMy homepage is at https://jlelse.dev/ and my blog at https://jlelse.blog/ Both are generated with Hugo ( https://gohugo.io/ ).
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on “Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)”Submitted A Few Email Thoughts as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI recently blogged about it [1] and think Delta Chat is the messenger we should migrate to. Email is decentralized (at least when not everybody is using Gmail) and isn't a silo like WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram and Threema. Because what happens when Signal goes bad? Everyone has to move again... [1]: https://jlelse.blog/posts/email-messenger-delta-chat
Comment linking /posts/email-messenger-delta-chat
on “Delta Chat – decentralized chat via email”Submitted Americentrism as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis seems to be a question regularly popping up. My answer: it's not dead. I, and I think many other people, still use RSS. My reply to a similar question on HN: https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2019/12/do-you-still-use-rss/
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on “Ask HN: Is RSS dead?”Submitted Email is the messenger you should migrate to as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI recently switch to mailcow-dockerized on a cheap 3€/month VPS and it works perfectly. I can create as many mailboxes as I want (until the disk is full) and also have as many domains / email adresses connected. It's really awesome and way easier than I imagined. Mailcow: https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/ My blog post: https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2019/mail-server/
Comment linking /thoughts/2019/mail-server/
on “The FreedomBox enables you to control your view of the internet”Submitted My new coding workflow: VS Code and Remote-SSH extension as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMy blog has a search: https://jlelse.blog/search/ Ok, it's just DDG, but that's the simplest solution for a static site.
Comment linking /search/
on “Git-Based Wiki”Submitted How to Get a Completely Free Website as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThat's pretty similar to my Wiki approach: https://jlelse.blog/posts/wiki-approach/
Comment linking /posts/wiki-approach/
on “Git-Based Wiki”Submitted How I got Crostini to work in Chrome OS Flex as a story · 4 points
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