Jan-Lukas Else

Thoughts of an IT expert

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📍 Kassel, Hesse, Germany

This time from the other side. 🌳

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Another weekend with a bike focus

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The cycling season is not over yet.

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Where the Eder flows into the Fulda

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Just in time before it gets cold and rainy again next week, I took advantage of today to go for a short bike ride. Upstream along the Fulda, over to the Eder and then to where the Eder flows into the Fulda. This was the short (49 km) of the two versions I had planned for this. The longer version is almost 90 kilometers long. Let’s see if I can still do it this year…

This time, I just took my “Komoot phone” (the Galaxy XCover7) with me, and that worked fine. I don’t always need to have two phones on my tours! 😅

The river Fulda

The narrow path I had to ride between the Fulda and the Eder, next to a train track on the right and the Eder on the left

The river Eder

The mouth of the Eder into the Fulda

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📍 Waldeck, Hesse, Germany

Yesterday, we rented a shared car and drove 50 km to the Edersee near Kassel, where we hiked a bit. There’s a castle up on one hill and the view was spectacular! It was definitely an active weekend. 😊

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My August ‘24 in Review

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And now another month, and soon the summer, has come to an end. Time to take a (this time very) brief look back at August.

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Instead of doing another Freeletics workout this week, I took advantage of the great weather outside and challenged myself with some uphill biking. It definitely pushed me to my limits, but it was worth it! And it worked, even though my bike only has eight internal gears.

A view from the top of the mountain. I started in the valley!

A picture of my bike on top of the mountain, as a proof that I actually used the bike to go there.

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How I stopped a malicious IP from hammering my Gitea instance

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Some IP from the US seemed to crawl my Gitea instance (running on the same small VPS as my blog and other self-hosted services) non-stop, which caused high CPU usage. I already wondered why the terminal was lagging so much and why Gitea had such a high CPU usage.

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Three days, two flats, one epic bike tour

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I finally did, what I planned to do for a long time: Biking from my first to my second flat. I did it in three days. 214 kilometers with 1750 meters uphill.

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Automatic Komoot export

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While I like Komoot and use it to navigate and record all my tours, whether that are bike tours or hiking trips, it sucks that there’s no option to export all your data. There’s also no official API to easily implement such functionality.

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After work bike tour

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I admit it, I should rename the subtitle of my blog from “Thoughts of an IT expert” to “My bike tour log”. Even though it was 29° C outside today, I wanted to do another bike tour after work. 42 km through the surrounding area of my hometown. I discovered new places and noticed that it actually feels colder next to trees. It was much fun!

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