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Roelof Jan Elsinga

I'm a developer-turned-business owner who loves to explore the right tools for the job. I enjoy writing and documenting my journey. I use code as one of the tools to solve real problems.

Location Groningen, The Netherlands Joined Joined on  Email address roelof.jan@hey.com Personal website https://roelofjanelsinga.com github website

Education

Hanzehogeschool Groningen

Work

Owner of Plant care for Beginners

Five Year Club
Writing Debut
Four Year Club
Three Year Club
Two Year Club
Hacktoberfest 2020
One Year Club
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16 Week Writing Streak
Hacktoberfest 2019
8 Week Writing Streak
From "The Cloud" to my cloud: I'm back to self-hosting

From "The Cloud" to my cloud: I'm back to self-hosting

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How do you choose a database type for a software project?

How do you choose a database type for a software project?

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Using Caddy for automatic SSL certificates with Cloudflare

Using Caddy for automatic SSL certificates with Cloudflare

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Quick tip: Reduce your Docker Image size when using the League Flysystem s3 adapter

Quick tip: Reduce your Docker Image size when using the League Flysystem s3 adapter

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How to enable step debugging in PHP with Xdebug 3 and PHPStorm

How to enable step debugging in PHP with Xdebug 3 and PHPStorm

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Why you should (still) add an RSS feed to your content website in 2023

Why you should (still) add an RSS feed to your content website in 2023

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Why Caddy might be the best start for your next software project

Why Caddy might be the best start for your next software project

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5x performance increase: A simple trick to speed up your PHP application

5x performance increase: A simple trick to speed up your PHP application

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How to migrate from Mailchimp to Postmark + Temporal

How to migrate from Mailchimp to Postmark + Temporal

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Neo4j for SEO & UX: Easily create related content

Neo4j for SEO & UX: Easily create related content

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My 2020 in review

My 2020 in review

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How to create a simple MQTT switch in Home Assistant

How to create a simple MQTT switch in Home Assistant

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Fixing hidden infrastructure issues with Netdata

Fixing hidden infrastructure issues with Netdata

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Learning Go: What I've learned in 9 months

Learning Go: What I've learned in 9 months

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GraphQL: Centralize existing REST API endpoints for easier development

GraphQL: Centralize existing REST API endpoints for easier development

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Ansible: Easy and Safe SSH deployments from GitHub

Ansible: Easy and Safe SSH deployments from GitHub

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Boost web performance with Service Workers

Boost web performance with Service Workers

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How I automated publishing my content to LinkedIn

How I automated publishing my content to LinkedIn

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Technical SEO: Improving your page loads with properly sized images

Technical SEO: Improving your page loads with properly sized images

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Ansible: Tasks vs Roles vs Handlers

Ansible: Tasks vs Roles vs Handlers

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Automating Laravel deployment using Ansible

Automating Laravel deployment using Ansible

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Getting a 73% increase in clicks from Google results

Getting a 73% increase in clicks from Google results

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Building CLI applications with Go

Building CLI applications with Go

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Technical SEO: How to add structured data to your website

Technical SEO: How to add structured data to your website

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

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

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GitHub Pages: Static web hosting made simple

GitHub Pages: Static web hosting made simple

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How to set a static IP address on a Raspberry Pi

How to set a static IP address on a Raspberry Pi

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3 things to do to prioritize new features

3 things to do to prioritize new features

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Aloia CMS: Compatibility with Laravel 6 and 7

Aloia CMS: Compatibility with Laravel 6 and 7

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How Aloia CMS has made me more productive

How Aloia CMS has made me more productive

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How to get the verified flag on your commits in GitHub

How to get the verified flag on your commits in GitHub

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How I added Elasticsearch to a Laravel application on a server with minimal resources

How I added Elasticsearch to a Laravel application on a server with minimal resources

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My favorite feature in Peppermint OS

My favorite feature in Peppermint OS

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Why documentation is (almost) more important than code

Why documentation is (almost) more important than code

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What are your favorite bash aliases?

What are your favorite bash aliases?

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Aloia CMS: Version 1.0.0 has released!

Aloia CMS: Version 1.0.0 has released!

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How to set up a personal cloud using a Raspberry Pi and Nextcloud

How to set up a personal cloud using a Raspberry Pi and Nextcloud

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Building my personal cloud after 4 years

Building my personal cloud after 4 years

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Aloia CMS: The road to version 1.0

Aloia CMS: The road to version 1.0

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What I learned from publishing my first Golang package

What I learned from publishing my first Golang package

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The impact of migrating from PHP to Golang

The impact of migrating from PHP to Golang

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Linux: Rolling releases vs Snapshot releases

Linux: Rolling releases vs Snapshot releases

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How to optimize your product without blocking progress

How to optimize your product without blocking progress

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How to reclaim your privacy on the internet

How to reclaim your privacy on the internet

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Top 10 reasons to start blogging as a software engineer

Top 10 reasons to start blogging as a software engineer

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Linux: How it saved my old laptop

Linux: How it saved my old laptop

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

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

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Proxy API calls to your server during Angular development

Proxy API calls to your server during Angular development

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Event sourcing: The single source of truth

Event sourcing: The single source of truth

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Creating a documentation website for my open-source package Aloia CMS

Creating a documentation website for my open-source package Aloia CMS

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Using Netlify to simplify the CI/CD pipeline with Angular

Using Netlify to simplify the CI/CD pipeline with Angular

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100% test coverage: Why or why not?

100% test coverage: Why or why not?

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How to write good documentation

How to write good documentation

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Why is a simple script often harder to write?

Why is a simple script often harder to write?

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Portfolio updates for September 2019

Portfolio updates for September 2019

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Struggling with micro-optimizations on large scale data processing

Struggling with micro-optimizations on large scale data processing

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How to fix CORS headers in a single page application

How to fix CORS headers in a single page application

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Open source contributions (September 2019)

Open source contributions (September 2019)

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Why I built my own CMS

Why I built my own CMS

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What should a good technical CV include?

What should a good technical CV include?

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