Blog - Roelof Jan Elsinga

Boost web performance with Service Workers

If you're looking to improve the performance of your website and you haven't tried service workers yet, you should. Adding them gives you a big boost in web performance. Read here how I did it and let me show you how you can too.

Posted on: August 5th, 2020

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How I automated publishing my content to LinkedIn

Sharing content to many platforms helps you to get the word out about your expertise. Automating this frees you up to create the content. In this post, I got over how I automated publishing my content to LinkedIn.

Posted on: July 8th, 2020

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Technical SEO: Improving your page loads with properly sized images

What is an easy way to speed up your page loads? Serving your images in the proper size is one of the things you can do. But, there's more. Find out what you can do to reduce the loading times for your pages with 1 simple trick.

Posted on: June 24th, 2020

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Ansible: Tasks vs Roles vs Handlers

Ansible has several ways of performing tasks: Tasks, Roles, and Handlers. Each has a different use case and in this post, I go over what each of them does and how you can use them.

Posted on: June 10th, 2020

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Automating Laravel deployment using Ansible

Deploying changes to your websites is often a very repetitive task. Repetition means you can automate the entire process. To do this, you can use Ansible, because it's easy to set up and doesn't require any special software on the remote machine.

Posted on: June 7th, 2020

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Getting a 73% increase in clicks from Google results

Three weeks ago I posted about structured data and technical SEO. These improvements resulted in a 73% increase in clicks from Google results. Find out what I learned.

Posted on: May 24th, 2020

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Building CLI applications with Go

CLI applications are very useful for performing tasks and automations in many different environments. In this post I go over how you can get started writing applications like this in Go.

Posted on: May 13th, 2020

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Technical SEO: How to add structured data to your website

SEO is very important to help people to find your website. To help Google understand the content of your website you can use Structured data to provide more context about your website and individual pages. In this post we go over how you can implement this in your website.

Posted on: May 6th, 2020

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Tutorial: How to set up and automatically deploy your website to GitHub Pages

Setting up a static website, hosting it, and automatically deploying any changes doesn't have to be difficult. In this tutorial, I take you through the steps to set up GitHub Pages and automatically deploy your changes.

Posted on: April 22nd, 2020

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GitHub Pages: Static web hosting made simple

Static web hosting has been a pain point for many developers for years, but it doesn't have to be painful. In this post, we go over how you can use GitHub pages to improve your development cycles and empower everyone to publish content.

Posted on: April 15th, 2020

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