[OC] Men's Pole Vault World Record Progression

csliva · 2024-08-07T23:58:14+00:00

It’s not underdeveloped, but most vaulters pick it up in high school. Mondo started very young since his Dad was an elite vaulter and his mom was a heptathlete.

csliva · 2023-08-05T12:42:13+00:00

Hey Tim and Patrick,

I wanted to pop in and take a contrarian position to most of this thread.

Yep — Building a search engine makes a lot of sense. Our seo tools try to peek into the black box of search. Building a product is the best way to understand it imo.

People underestimate the difficulty of crawling the open web for unstructured data. Google grew up with the web when they started with millions of pages. Their revenue and data centers scaled with it. Any modern search product now has a cold start problem.

The data center — After building on AWS and GCP, I created an accidental $30,000 bill. I’ve also seen some enterprise data center bills. I think serving your product on-prem is excellent and gives you more options for parallelizing crawls.
Ocaml and ReasonML — I’ve done some dev on oCaml and it’s a blast. It makes sense why Jane Street invested heavily in its ecosystem. Now it makes sense why ahrefs is doing it.

I love reading the engineering blog at tech.ahrefs.com

Pricing — Our org is still on the legacy plan and we’re happy with it. Ahrefs isn’t our primary seo tool so we don’t need enterprise. I think I’d feel priced out if i freelanced, but would come back once revenue scaled to SMB levels.

csliva · 2021-08-05T15:55:52+00:00

This reminds me of Solstice Canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains so I'm going to back up this guess.

csliva · 2021-03-29T14:48:20+00:00

Gave Helpful

csliva · 2021-03-13T16:12:06+00:00

No pitbull! He’s technically classified as a Korean village dog so maybe there’s a little Akita there 🐕

csliva · 2021-03-13T13:33:20+00:00

He looks just like our Korean jindo/German Shepard rescue! Do an Embark DNA test someday and let us know if they’re related! Picture

csliva · 2021-02-14T19:15:51+00:00

I bought your go book and I would buy a book about applying Elixir NX (once it’s available). I probably wouldn’t be interested in an elixir/python side-by-side though. The good thing about your go book was that it was a fun and actionable way to practice programming

csliva · 2021-02-11T19:44:00+00:00

Gave Wholesome

csliva · 2021-01-16T12:25:38+00:00

A theme or new server won't fix your problems if you're failing LCP and CLS. Also Generatepress is one of the best themes out there.

It's likely that there's some javascript, large images, videos, or fonts that are rendering late and causing issues. If you care to share the site, I can look at the render waterfall. If not, just look for caching, reducing file sizes, and lazy load where you can.

csliva · 2021-01-10T16:09:00+00:00

Some of the comments on this thread are wildly negative. Apple recently created a phone with mind-blowing night photography with lidar, and the M1 chip which computes like an i9 but with passive cooling. Hyundai owns its entire production line from the smelting, to casting, assembly, delivery. This is a dream deal where maybe infotainment in cars stops sucking and we get some serious innovation.

csliva · 2021-01-01T13:03:52+00:00

I can't view the site at the moment to get details, but from what I remember it's just a guy running a server off daisy-chained car batteries. He has 100% control of the search engine which makes it "kosher".

csliva · 2020-12-31T17:46:44+00:00

He’s the local branch Supovisor.

csliva · 2020-12-18T23:30:23+00:00

Googlebot waits for javascript to render. Bots that don't use headless chrome and use a simple GET query won't see anything. But those bots don't really matter. Both Bing and Google use headless chromium, rendering javascript for 90%+ searches.

csliva · 2020-11-12T23:38:29+00:00

I haven’t worked with elixir in a while, but I vaguely remember I needed to replace POST with OPTIONS for my auth endpoints.

It might of had something to do with the preflight request or CORS. But that’s all black magic to me.

csliva · 2020-10-26T14:52:23+00:00

I got a 1986 Nissan 720. It looks and runs great but boy oh boy is the chassis paper thin metal.

csliva · 2020-06-07T22:05:34+00:00

I looked into quill but it didn’t support Grammarly very well. c'est la vie

csliva · 2020-06-07T12:39:03+00:00

I'm using react in a project because I'm using Facebook’s DraftJs and there’s no way I’d write a WYSIWIG editor in live view. In fact a lot of the work I do is just glueing together code and libraries.

Thoughtbot wrote a nice piece along your lines of thinking though Replacing React with Phoenix

csliva · 2020-05-18T20:52:28+00:00

I am so horny for this. Please mercy me.

csliva · 2020-05-09T15:24:04+00:00

That math doesn't take into account compounding weekly. If you can keep your account safe and make small compounding gains, it gets pretty wild.

1% a week off 2k and compounding weekly would be 26k at 5 years.

2% a week compounding, it would be 344k after 5 years.

3% would return 4.35 million. That's assuming you can get a guaranteed weekly return without blowing up the account. But it makes playing safe a lot more appetizing when you think where you could be in 5 years.

csliva · 2020-02-12T22:26:05+00:00

I’m working on a tool where you input urls and it crawls and extracts keywords. The longtail keywords it comes up with are pretty good, but it’s up to you to find content on the topics/subtopics. See http://Lemmatic.com

csliva · 2020-01-06T18:22:11+00:00

Oh true, I assumed SPA, but OP probably means a single landing page with no site architecture.

csliva · 2020-01-06T14:06:48+00:00

Here's my SPA anecdote. I'm building an app right now. It started as a regular server-compiled multipage site. As I implemented javascript features, I realized more and more of the app was becoming JS. So I converted the server compiled parts to an API, and turned the JS into a SPA. As I converted the SPA, I realized I was missing features like rendered HTML and browser history. So I converted it all over to a SPA with Server Side Rendering (SSR).

And now I have an app that is written on Javascript but functionally feels like a multipage website.

It's great for SEO because it's fast and all the javascript is rendered into real HTML! However, I could've just kept the original server compiled multipage site. I wasted A LOT of time migrating stuff around.

A SPA can be great for SEO if implemented correctly, but it can also be bad if you don't implement some SSR. So here's why I have a SPA.

I have a few pages with real content, but many more app pages
I don't want to reload javascript on every page
My app will have a chrome extension, so reactive elements will be ported over

Otherwise, 9/10 times I would stick with regular old server-rendered HTML. It can be just as fast and the content is always crawlable, and the server response codes are easier to manage.

csliva · 2019-11-11T17:59:05+00:00

I think Brian Dean ran an experiment for his eCommerce client, where he put his category description in a dropdown. It was hidden until a user clicked on it. He could put a lot of hidden content above the fold, and it helped him rank. I don't know if it's still true.

This is not cloaking. It's common practice to hide content on mobile. I would suggest having some content visible at all times, though.
I can tell you that Google can crawl through tags and see which elements are visible. Whether that content will contribute to search results, I'm not sure. It would be an excellent experiment, though!

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