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by gurgeous 5y ago
I have worked on this problem many times, at many companies. I am working on it again, actually. Usually some combination of scoring and persisting results in CSVs for human review. (edit: I am at a desktop now and I can say a bit more) Her
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The State of Ruby Formatters(github.com)
2 points by gurgeous 6y ago|0 comments
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by gurgeous 6y ago
Looks great! Can you fill out web forms? We would use this for creating fake accounts in our test environment, for example.
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My Million Dollar Domain Hobby(medium.com)
6 points by gurgeous 6y ago|1 comments
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by gurgeous 6y ago
Depends how much randomness you need. I usually just use a rand alpha of length 6-8. You can also use dictionary words (see gfycat). Sample Ruby code: 8.times.map { (('a'..'z').to_a + (0..9).to_a).sample }.join It
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What is happening with imgix lately?(imgur.com)
4 points by gurgeous 6y ago|0 comments
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by gurgeous 7y ago
This is so sad. From the survey we ran - Closure is looming for 35% of small businesses in Seattle. More in TFA
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Covid-19 Is Killing Small Businesses in Seattle(freshchalk.com)
3 points by gurgeous 7y ago|1 comments
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by gurgeous 7y ago
This is the third outage this month for imgix. What's going on over there? Can anyone recommend an alternative?
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Imgix Status – Elevated Rendering Errors(status.imgix.com)
1 points by gurgeous 7y ago|1 comments
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by gurgeous 7y ago
A high percentage, I would guess.
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by gurgeous 7y ago
I am the author - happy to answer questions here.
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150k Website Teardown Part Three: WordPress(freshchalk.com)
4 points by gurgeous 7y ago|3 comments
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by gurgeous 7y ago
Mostly it comes down to the number of requests and the amount of soul sucking tracking/javascript that runs before the page renders fully. Wix is a particularly bad actor here.
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by gurgeous 7y ago
Part one was quite popular on HN. This chapter focuses on website builders that are used heavily by small businesses - Squarespace, Wix, Weebly, GoDaddy, etc. How fast are they? Which websites tend to rank well on Google? Also found a great
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150k SMB Website Teardown Part Two: Website Builders, Speed and Google Rank(freshchalk.com)
5 points by gurgeous 7y ago|3 comments
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by gurgeous 7y ago
Great point - I will update. For those reading here, BBB stands for the Better Business Bureau. It is a US based nonprofit that tries to collect and address complaints about small businesses. Very well known in the US.
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by gurgeous 7y ago
I will have some of this in my "technical factors" chapter coming down the road. I definitely will be evaluating the percentage of SMB websites which use chat clients and various (annoying) marketing tools.
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by gurgeous 7y ago
I too am very sensitive to "correlation != causation" and I tried to call it out extensively in the report. I even included a chart at the bottom from the famous Spurious Correlations project... Hopefully nobody gets too carried a
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by gurgeous 7y ago
You can read the HTML to see if a particular SEO feature is present. Or there are tools for this. There's some talk in the office about taking my report and turning into a scanner that you could point at any website, which would be an
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by gurgeous 7y ago
Apologies for the self-promotion but I think this will be interesting to HN. It's an analysis of a huge crawl of 150k small business websites, correlated with google search rankings. This first chapter is focused on SEO. I'm in th
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150k Small Business Website Teardown 2019(freshchalk.com)
298 points by gurgeous 7y ago|59 comments
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by gurgeous 8y ago
Also see 9forks - https://9forks.com (Austin, Houston, Portland, Seattle). Just a quick side project, but maybe we'll pick it up again someday.
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2018 O'Reilly AI Keynote, Thomas Reardon, CEO, CTRL-Labs(youtube.com)
2 points by gurgeous 8y ago|0 comments
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by gurgeous 9y ago
We use rebloom. Works great.
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by gurgeous 9y ago
I built this with a friend. This is based on a script that I've used for several years to find great domains for my projects. It mashes words together to build huge numbers of potential domains, then quickly excludes registered domains
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Show HN: BatName, Redis and Bloom Filter = fun domain search(batname.com)
10 points by gurgeous 9y ago|8 comments
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Deep Learning for Photo Editing(blog.photoeditorsdk.com)
3 points by gurgeous 9y ago|0 comments
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by gurgeous 11y ago
Love this game and the sequel. So innovative. Fun fact - Jonathan Gay, the creator of Dark Castle, went on to create Flash. If you squint a bit you can see the lineage from Dark Castle leading directly to Flash. https://en.wikipe
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by gurgeous 11y ago
Do these vulnerabilities suggest that attackers can gain access to your machine by sending an evil font to your browser? I wish this was getting more press/discussion.

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