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How To Create a Stellar GitHub Profile That Gets You Hired As A Web Developer

If you are job-hunting as a developer, there’s a lot of competition, and you want to stand out as much as possible. Recently, I published an article on how to set up your LinkedIn profile to stand out and get hired, now let’s take a look at how we can improve your GitHub profile. Your...

6 min readSep 22, 2021Wesley Smits

How to Set Up Your Programming LinkedIn Profile

Whether you’re new to the field and looking for your first development job, or you’re a veteran seeking a new opportunity. Nowadays, you need a LinkedIn profile to get the right reach and get noticed. Why is LinkedIn so important? Almost every single employer and recruiter uses LinkedIn to find

12 min readSep 11, 2021Wesley Smits

7 best practices for awesome meta titles

The meta title is the main description of an online document. It is an important on-page element for SEO and helps users determine what the page is about.

4 min readMar 16, 2014Wesley Smits

How to minimize HTTP requests

What is an HTTP request? Most of the loading time of a website consists of downloading all the necessary components to show the website. Every HTML, CSS, Javascript and image file has to be requested from the server. This request made by the browser is called an HTTP request. Why you should min

3 min readFeb 28, 2014Wesley Smits

How to enable GZIP Compression and Speed up your site

Gzip compression is a way of compression your resource files smaller. This can often save you between 50-70% of the file size and speed up your site.

2 min readFeb 21, 2014Wesley Smits

How to set up a cookieless domain

One of the techniques for optimizing a website for speed is to serve static content such as CSS, Javascript and image files from a cookieless domain.

4 min readFeb 7, 2014Wesley Smits

How to cache your static resources

Almost every website contains resources that don’t change very often. CSS, javascript and image files are excellent examples of this. These files are downloaded every single time a webpage is loaded. This could really increase the time it takes to load your webpages. Don’t you think that

3 min readJan 30, 2014Wesley Smits