Blog articles
In my blog posts I write about technical innovations, news items and opinions in the web development space. This can be a ‘best-practise’ or a personal discovery worth sharing. I have also written some posts in Dutch. They can be found at the Dutch website.
October 5, 2024
How to build a fast website?
September 23, 2024
WP Engine disabled revisions
September 22, 2024
Micro optimizations
September 12, 2024
Real User Monitoring
September 11, 2024
Non-perfect Lighthouse scores
September 10, 2024
Lighthouse scores dropped
August 22, 2024
Exif rotation on images
May 21, 2024
SEPA Instant Payments
May 17, 2024
Pages from data in Hugo
April 7, 2024
Worlds fastest website
April 1, 2024
Low-carbon websites
March 17, 2024
The future of Jamstack
February 25, 2024
Web studios in Japan
February 19, 2024
Kinsta is really cheap
February 10, 2024
The most perfect color
February 8, 2024
A changed pattern
January 2, 2024
Learn Performance by Google
December 22, 2023
Why Hugo Blox is a great idea
December 21, 2023
SSG's have become boring technology
December 13, 2023
The real cost of running WordPress
November 18, 2023
Popularity of Hugo
November 17, 2023
Hugo websites from the Netherlands
October 1, 2023
Speaking at HugoConf 2023
July 14, 2023
Is Netlify killing Jamstack?
June 16, 2023
Why choose Hugo as your SSG?
June 13, 2023
Resize images in Linux
May 25, 2023
Has WebP landed yet? (part 3)
April 23, 2023
What is Managed Hosting?
April 8, 2023
Free Instagram widget
February 28, 2023
Toxic online communities
February 25, 2023
The future of Netlify CMS
February 24, 2023
Netlify CMS becomes Decap CMS
February 16, 2023
Instagram solution disabled
January 31, 2023
ButterCMS is great, but...
January 18, 2023
Deploy to a free hosting platform
November 11, 2022
A CMS with Hugo shortcode support
November 8, 2022
Google metrics
October 30, 2022
Long live the lean web
October 19, 2022
Jamstack has matured
October 18, 2022
Has WebP landed yet? (part 2)
October 13, 2022
Google Fonts illegal in EU
September 30, 2022
Artisanal web development
September 24, 2022
Code is poetry
September 11, 2022
Has WebP landed yet?
September 10, 2022
Misconceptions about performance
September 7, 2022
The fastest website in the world
September 2, 2022
A cute mascot
August 27, 2022
Gatsby has grown up
August 26, 2022
The best CMS for Hugo
June 25, 2022
Sometimes it should just work
April 30, 2022
Youtube removes dislike counter
April 20, 2022
Make your site picture perfect
February 6, 2022
Oh Jamstack, grow up!!!
February 2, 2022
How to pitch a Jamstack website to your clients
January 18, 2022
Running a highly efficient digital agency
January 8, 2022
A new algorithm for social media
January 3, 2022
The story of Delete Agency
December 28, 2021
Thanks to Kev Quirk
December 7, 2021
The website carbon calculator
December 6, 2021
The website obesity crisis
December 5, 2021
Netlify pricing
December 4, 2021
Jamstack means performance, right?
December 3, 2021
Ain't no party like a third party
November 27, 2021
Embedding Youtube correctly
November 16, 2021
Jamstack is eating the world
November 15, 2021
A new Jamstack era
November 3, 2021
Google makes me sick
October 23, 2021
Why you should avoid Cloudflare's CDN
September 15, 2021
Chrome speed tests
September 14, 2021
The Stackless Way
July 22, 2021
Faster websites with a CDN?
June 5, 2021
Elon Musk has been warned
May 12, 2021
A message for Paul Kinlan
April 21, 2021
Carousel with scroll snap
April 1, 2021
Great minds think alike
April 1, 2021
Instagram interface icons
February 2, 2021
Instagram on your website
October 4, 2020
Monkey business with banana leafs
August 20, 2020
Multilingual Jekyll websites
August 7, 2020
The problem with multi-purpose themes
March 4, 2020
Help, my server is down!
December 19, 2019
No-code platforms
November 14, 2019
How to get a 100% Google Lighthouse score
November 13, 2019
Building websites in rem
November 12, 2019
Google will shame slow websites
October 19, 2019
Speaking at JekyllConf 2019
August 21, 2019
A green website
August 12, 2019
Google Lighthouse score
August 12, 2019
Speed index explained
August 1, 2019
Websites that load instantly
July 10, 2019
How Netlify became irrelevant
July 4, 2019
A redesign that was long overdue
July 1, 2019
A tribute to the web
December 2, 2018
Code warriors
November 23, 2018
Arguments for the JAMstack
November 11, 2018
Goodbye Google
February 25, 2018
The need for speed on the web
November 6, 2017
The new Nokia 3310 could give you your life back
August 22, 2017
Running Jekyll on Cloud9
July 19, 2017
Why you should upgrade your website to SSL
March 23, 2017
Smashing new technology
December 11, 2016
Turbolinks5 is awesome
September 21, 2016
Getting started with Jekyll
August 17, 2016
Jekyll against the rest of the world
August 7, 2016
Hover is dead
July 3, 2016
From Wordpress to CloudCannon
April 21, 2016
Two viewports to rule them all
January 4, 2016
No Javascript Please!
November 4, 2015
Why Static Website Generators Are The Next Big Thing
August 14, 2015
The race to zero in webhosting
May 30, 2015
Flash scaling in HTML
May 30, 2015
The viewport meta tag on desktop
May 3, 2015
Developing web applications on a Chromebook
April 9, 2015
About 'usecues', also known as affordances!