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DaSilentStorm

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I write code.
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DaSilentStorm··on Cloudflare was down
Aaand ... we're back!
DaSilentStorm··on Cloudflare was down
Aaand ... we're back
DaSilentStorm··on Chrome Is Bad
Like homebrew maybe? ;-)
DaSilentStorm··on Ask HN: Where can I learn about Nikola Tesla?
Check out this Ted Talk for some nice facts and awesome storytelling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-WkUKP1l3c
DaSilentStorm··on Renault's driver UX is a disaster waiting to happen
There's actually a little wheel at the back of the volume thingie where you can "scroll" to the next and previous track, etc.
DaSilentStorm··on Is there any app which matches users based on personality/behaviour?
Isn't this exactly what every dating site out there promises to do?
DaSilentStorm··on Ask HN: How do you manage your SSH keys?
Sadly, I just copy them around using my local NAS.
DaSilentStorm··on Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?
First: I love the idea behind IPFS and decentralized storage and I'm sure there will be some valid use cases.

But: There's already tech available enabling these very use cases (see https://webtorrent.io/) and the adoption is pretty low. Plus IPFS doesn't solve the problem of disappearing peers at all. If no one's willing to mirror your awesome IPFS page, it will be gone the same way as with centralized hosting.

Fun Fact: IPFS is not BlockChain tech.

DaSilentStorm··on Show HN: Cross Cloud Latency – A tool that measures latency from AWS to GCP
That's pretty amazing, nice work!

The company I work for has a similar tool (no fancy API yet, though) which shows the latency from some AWS regions to "the world" via different transit providers.

You can check it out at https://latency-test.datapath.io/.

The reason we only have three AWS regions at the moment is that we're using real hardware to do the measurement on network level.

DaSilentStorm··on Ask HN: How do you become productive in a new project as a senior developer?
Well, first of all, talk to the team. To every single person involved. Be it the CTO or the intern. Have someone who has been on the team for some time onboard you and find out what the current obstacles are. Then just grab one task and start working. You'll find the place you're needed most automatically.
DaSilentStorm··on Ask HN: Where are you located?
Cold and rainy Germany
DaSilentStorm··on Ask HN: What frameworks are currently used in a modern web stack?
ASP.NET Core is not sure if you're trolling or just a fan :-o
DaSilentStorm··on Ask HN: If you targetting ES6 by default, how did you rationalize that choice?
Isn't this what SourceMaps are for?

Edit: What he said /\

DaSilentStorm··on [dead]
Honestly, the bottom line of that article is: Have content and social media.

If you're really trying to get some organic traffic, you'll definitely want to look into

Google Search Console: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

and Google Analytics: https://www.google.com/analytics/

Get a free account on both, set up YOAST (https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/) on your WordPress* and see if the generated sitemap.xml (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemaps) is working and contains all of your pages. Then submit it via Google Search Console and wait patiently. The Search Console will then spam you (ehem, send useful information) with all sorts of things to make your site better.

As we all know, Google loves structured data, so adding some markup from http://schema.org/ won't hurt either. Again, the Search Console will give you hints on how to do that.

Finally, you can always get a Google Business Profile at https://www.google.com/business/

All that will help you rank better (not really faster) on Google, but in the end, the answer really is: Have Content, Content, Content ... and Social Media ;-)

* If you're not using WordPress, there are other ways to generate a sitemap.xml for your site. If you're brave, you can even write it by hand.

DaSilentStorm··on Ask HN: My side project is ramen-profitable. What do I do now?
Check out https://www.browserstack.com/ or if you want to try something without signing up: http://browsershots.org/https://www.pc-kombo.de/
DaSilentStorm··on Ask HN: What “retro” PC game(s) do you miss but have not played in years?
Dungeon Keeper is an all time favorite
DaSilentStorm··on Show HN: Viktor NV-1 Synthesizer
I just recently looked at the Web Audio API and the Google Moog Doodle (http://www.google.com/doodles/robert-moogs-78th-birthday) and I'm seriously impressed by what you did there. Congrats, Sir, keep up the good work!