Blog - Roelof Jan Elsinga

What I learned from publishing my first Golang package

In this post I go over what I learned from publishing my first Golang package. I tell you about why I did this and what my workflow was to achieve this goal.

Posted on: January 29th, 2020

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The impact of migrating from PHP to Golang

Find out how I reduced the execution time of a script by 99%. In this post I go over the impact of migrating from PHP to Golang. I recently migrated a business process from PHP to Golang and it had more benefits than just a performance increase.

Posted on: January 22nd, 2020

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Linux: Rolling releases vs Snapshot releases

In this post I explain the differences between a rolling release and a snapshot release distro. This post is aimed at people that are just starting out with Linux of want to explore and make the switch to Linux.

Posted on: January 15th, 2020

linux

How to optimize your product without blocking progress

In this post I go over how you can optimize your product without blocking progress along the way. A lot of people can get stuck on features that might be meaningless to the product. Through data you can prioritize features and improvements, which will guide your work towards a specific goal.

Posted on: January 8th, 2020

development

How to reclaim your privacy on the internet

In this post I'm giving you four different steps you can take to reclaim your privacy on the internet. You can take all of these steps, but also just some of them. Any steps you take will be an improvement already.

Posted on: January 1st, 2020

privacy

Top 10 reasons to start blogging as a software engineer

In this post I go over the top 10 reasons why I believe software engineers would benefit from blogging. But remember: If you're not writing blog posts you're not any less of a software developer.

Posted on: December 25th, 2019

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Linux: How it saved my old laptop

Linux: How it saved my old laptop. I this post I'm going to talk about my transition from using Windows for everything to using Linux for everything and how this impacted my decision to revive an old laptop that I thought was broken.

Posted on: December 18th, 2019

linux

Proxy API calls to your server during Angular development

In this post, I'm showing you how you can proxy API calls to your server during Angular development and make the development process very painless.

Posted on: December 11th, 2019

angular

RSS/Atom feed: Why you should have one for your blog

RSS/Atom feed: Why you should have one for your blog. In this post I talk about why you should have syndication feeds for your blog. You can easily and quickly share your content to many different platforms without doing any of the work yourself.

Posted on: December 11th, 2019

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Event sourcing: The single source of truth

Event sourcing: The single source of truth. In this post I'll explain my reasoning for calling event sourcing the single source of truth. Spoiler alert: It is a very beneficial practice for decentralized applications.

Posted on: December 4th, 2019

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