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How Hacker News Crushed David Walsh Blog

David Walsh

Earlier this month, David’s heartfelt posting about leaving Mozilla made the front page of Hacker News. Request Metrics monitors performance and uptime for David’s blog , and our metrics tell an interesting story. This greatly limited the number of requests the blog was able to handle. Web Performance Lessons.

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Meta-blogging

Erik Bernhardsson

My blog blew up twice in a week earlier this year when I landed on Hacker News. I probably could have spent a bunch of time tweaking it but it also feels philosophically wrong to run a LAMP stack in 2016 for something as simple as a blog. The last one is for old links to my blog – it will do a double 301, from /?p=841

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Meta-blogging

Erik Bernhardsson

My blog blew up twice in a week earlier this year when I landed on Hacker News. I probably could have spent a bunch of time tweaking it but it also feels philosophically wrong to run a LAMP stack in 2016 for something as simple as a blog. The last one is for old links to my blog – it will do a double 301, from /?p=841

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Lessons from content marketing myself (aka blogging) for five years

Erik Bernhardsson

I started writing this blog in late 2012, partly because I felt like it would help me improve my English and my writing skills, partly because I kept having a lot of random ideas in my head and I wanted to write them down somewhere. I set up a Wordpress blog on my crappy Swedish virtual private server. But here’s the good news.

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Lessons from content marketing myself (aka blogging) for five years

Erik Bernhardsson

I started writing this blog in late 2012, partly because I felt like it would help me improve my English and my writing skills, partly because I kept having a lot of random ideas in my head and I wanted to write them down somewhere. I set up a Wordpress blog on my crappy Swedish virtual private server. But here’s the good news.

Marketing 100
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Blog/Website Relaunch: Under the Hood of craftycto.com

Crafty CTO

The only post I ever created that got any traction (front page of Hacker News) was titled Secret iPad, published on the 10th anniversary of the launch of the original iPad. New needs This time around, my requirements were a little broader. It’s not like ThinkFractional.blog needed Cloudflare to handle its traffic.

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Understanding the Significance of HTML5 in Modern Web Development

Perficient

<article> encapsulates standalone content, such as a blog post or news article. Integration of Multimedia HTML5 introduces <audio> and <video> tags for embedding multimedia directly into web pages without relying on third-party plugins.