Comment by aleksandrm
2 months ago
This is nothing new and doesn't add anything new to the topic, so am I the only that thinks this is just an attempt at boosting their SEO through HN?
2 months ago
This is nothing new and doesn't add anything new to the topic, so am I the only that thinks this is just an attempt at boosting their SEO through HN?
It clearly notes that it's "a refresher", does not claim that it's novel research, and extensively links to the reference documents. It is, essentially, a review article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Review_article). And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Hell, the author could probably have called it a primer and I think it'd have been fair.
Dunno man, sometimes I write blog posts for my own benefit, to document my knowledge and understanding of something. I could put it in a private note, but I can also put it in my blog and who knows, maybe someone else can benefit from it - even if it’s nothing you couldn’t google research yourself or god forbid, ask an LLM to summarize for you.
No need to be mean and assume the worst possible purpose :)
I’m sorry you didn’t get anything out of it. I wasn’t operating at the edge of caching knowledge, just a person refreshing and clarifying for themselves how caching works. Some things were new to me, and after spending so much time with the RFC, I just thought others may benefit or, more selfishly, would point out errors or ways to make it better.
I mean, do those <meta> tags really suggest someone who’s into SEO? Call me stale but what I really want is validation :-)