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James Turner

Probably this post:

I'm personally prefer very technical/advanced posts so randomly stumbling upon that gem of a post was great. They have several other posts equally as technical too which are worth reading.

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Michael Tharrington

Wow! This looks super thorough and awesome. I hope it wasn't as tiring to write as Frank's exasperated forehead-in-hand profile pic suggests. 😝

This does indeed look like a more technical/advanced series. I'm no dev, but when I see a topic like "Writing My Own Boot Loader" and tags like #assembler, #x86, and #c, I get the feeling that these are pretty close to the metal and would require more knowledge about the hardware than languages that would have abstracted away that sorta stuff. Please don't hesitate to correct if I'm wrong!

Anyway, thanks so much for sharing, James!

Side note: I've had a post of yours about Sitemaps in my reading list for ages (see it 👇 ). I have a particular interest in sitemaps because I understand their connection to SEO and: a) I'm forever battling spammers here on DEV and spammers are often motivated by trying to boost SEO for different companies' websites b) I'm interested in how cross-posting effects folks' SEO rankings. Anyway, I realize sitemaps are just a component of SEO and your intro post didn't go into SEO directly, but I still found this overview really helpful. I appreciate you writing this one!

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James Turner • Edited

I'm no dev, but when I see a topic like "Writing My Own Boot Loader" and tags like #assembler, #x86, and #c, I get the feeling that these are pretty close to the metal and would require more knowledge about the hardware than languages that would have abstracted away that sorta stuff.

You're pretty spot-on there - once you get that low level, you're dealing with some many tiny details of hardware. There's something I've always loved about that complexity and integration. As much as higher level languages help build business logic easier etc, there is this amazing problem solving puzzle occurring right underneath everything we build.

Anyway, I realize sitemaps are just a component of SEO and your intro post didn't go into SEO directly, but I still found this overview really helpful. I appreciate you writing this one!

Thanks mate - I really appreciate it!

SEO is a whole beast of a thing. You have search engines working hard to return relevant content and website admins trying to get their site's traffic by making their content relevant (or like you see with spammers, "relevant" clearly has a different meaning).

Unfortunately it seems one of the best tactics for relevancy is how many other sites consider it relevant by linking to it - that's where you see all that spam abuse. It kinda reminds me of this XKCD comic in that if we were "spammed" with relevant links, it really wouldn't be spam at all but actually useful content.

There is so much depth in SEO as so many things are signals to search engines that it is one of those things that you could never learn entirely - it is just way too big and changes in both major and minor ways too often.

If you ever want to run through some spam blocking ideas etc, let me know - happy to be a sounding board to try and make your life easier on that front.

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Michael Tharrington

LOL, that XKCD comic has me rolling. 🤣

If you ever want to run through some spam blocking ideas etc, let me know - happy to be a sounding board to try and make your life easier on that front.

Awesome and just thanks so dang much! I will absolutely keep you in mind for this. 🙂