How to preload fonts using the link tag and rel="preload" attribute
In a series of recent posts I have optimised my site as Google lighthouse / Pagespeed has shown some performance issues. This post is on how to »
How to lazy load background images using vanilla javascript
Every year Google Lighthouse and pagespeed gives me more to do. This time my site was slowed down because of background images not being lazy loaded. »
Disqus recommendation mark up suddenly messed up on page
Today my disqus recommendations suddenly looked like the following on my pages: As you can see, in the above the recommendations are a lot wider than »
How to preload Google fonts using Google API
I recently went through the performance issues I had in lighthouse or Google pagespeed. One of those was that I did not preload Google fonts which »
How to add font-display: swap; to font-face CSS from Google font API
You are likely here because of Google lighthouse or pagespeed telling you that you need to use "font-display: swap;". You can of course add »
HTML - Should you use <br> or <br/> as line break?
I recently realised that I had some old posts on my blog with some line break tags (<br/>) in them, however what I had »
Ghost blog - How to link within the same document using an anchor tag in markdown
It took me way too long to figure out how to link to a headline further down in my blog post within markdown. I hope I »
Javascript - how to get a child element with a specific class, attribute or any other selector
In order to get a child element or several child elements I would suggest you use the querySelectorAll or QuerySelector functions. Yes these can be both »
Ghost blog - Getting rid of the <br> tag and space added between text and image when inserting images from Unsplash
I recently tried the feature "Add image from Unsplash" on my Ghost blog. However I quickly found out that there is a lot of »
How to lazy load Disqus using vanilla/native javascript!
I recently found out that my blog was slow according to google pagespeed. I scored below 50, but I could have sworn that when I created »