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Roelof Jan Elsinga

MQTT Discovery with a NodeMCU and Home Assistant

In November (2020), I started to work with MQTT to set up a few smart devices in Home Assistant. I described how to create a simple MQTT…

5 min readJul 23, 2021

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MQTT Discovery with a NodeMCU and Home Assistant

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Roelof Jan Elsinga
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ITNEXT

GraphQL: Centralize existing REST API endpoints for easier development

API gateways are great for development teams because they expose the data you need for all kinds of different purposes in a central…

4 min readAug 27, 2020

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GraphQL: Centralize existing REST API endpoints for easier development

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Roelof Jan Elsinga
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ITNEXT

Ansible: Easy and Safe SSH deployments from GitHub

Ansible is a server orchestration tool that you can also use to perform workflows on remote machines in a predictable and repeatable way…

4 min readAug 19, 2020

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Ansible: Easy and Safe SSH deployments from GitHub

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Roelof Jan Elsinga
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ITNEXT

Boost web performance with Service Workers

If you’ve been working on the performance of your websites for a while and haven’t tried service workers yet, keep reading. A Service…

4 min readAug 12, 2020

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Boost web performance with Service Workers

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Roelof Jan Elsinga
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The Startup

How I automated publishing my content to LinkedIn

As you might have read in earlier posts, my blog is built using Laravel and my own CMS Aloia CMS. This CMS is as flexible as I’d like it to…

5 min readJul 29, 2020

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How I automated publishing my content to LinkedIn

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Roelof Jan Elsinga
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ITNEXT

Technical SEO: Improving your page loads with properly sized images

We all know that we should use properly sized images instead of using full-size images and making them smaller with HTML or CSS. Full-size…

3 min readJul 28, 2020

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Technical SEO: Improving your page loads with properly sized images

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Roelof Jan Elsinga
in
ITNEXT

Ansible: Tasks vs Roles vs Handlers

Running tasks in Ansible can be done in different ways and this can be very confusing for those starting out with automation and server…

4 min readJul 27, 2020

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Ansible: Tasks vs Roles vs Handlers

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Roelof Jan Elsinga
in
ITNEXT

Automating Laravel deployment using Ansible

If you, like me, have been deploying changes manually to any of your websites consistently for months, if not years, you know that this is…

3 min readJul 24, 2020

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Automating Laravel deployment using Ansible

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Roelof Jan Elsinga
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The Startup

Building CLI Applications With Go

Command Line Interface (CLI) applications can automate your work in many ways. They can be used to build your applications, deploy code…

6 min readJul 23, 2020

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Building CLI Applications With Go

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Roelof Jan Elsinga

Technical SEO: How to add structured data to your website

SEO is very important to help people find your website. To help Google understand the content of your website you can use Structured data.

9 min readMay 11, 2020

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Technical SEO: How to add structured data to your website

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Roelof Jan Elsinga

Roelof Jan Elsinga

I'm a web developer, working with Docker, Laravel, Go, Angular, and Solr. My posts can be found on my personal blog at roelofjanelsinga.com

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