Louis Tsang
  1. № 006
    Amdahl's law assumes the workers are interchangeable
    Splitting a render across two rented machines made it slower, and the logs had been writing down why in a field nobody read.
  2. № 005
    Spam links aren't punished, they just don't count
    Three Google patents, from 2012 to 2018, trace one shift: to handle spam links, Google moved from judging and penalizing to simply not counting them.
  3. № 004
    Position before phrasing
    The most common product copy mistake isn't bad phrasing. It's saying the right thing in the wrong place.
  4. № 003
    Building a blog inside Claude
    A blog designed, built, and written end-to-end by Claude. The real change is not the tooling — it is how writing begins.
  5. № 002
    When a reply is an interface
    HTML over Markdown, an inline-rendered demo, and why an agent's reply ships its styles inline rather than via Tailwind.
  6. № 001
    Scoring sites by user behaviour
    A 2015 patent, a 2022 update, and a 2024 spam policy trace one constraint search ranking cannot outrun.

Louis Tsang — Essays and Notes