My experiences having an internship at Algolia! This week, and also a bit in the previous time, I have been experimenting with how to get proper SEO on the Yarn website. The first important part was making sure that the detail pages actually get rendered by Google. This is done by making sure the proper polyfills are... 195 words more
This weekend was interesting, because I spent it in Bordeaux. After leaving at around 15h Friday, I and two colleagues (Marion and Matthieu) went on our way with a TGV to the south. We were there for Hack Bordeaux, the first MLH hackathon in France. Algolia was one of the... 406 words more
Sorry that I have not been updating that regularly, it must have slipped my mind a lot (since I had to update the data of this post at least three times already). Let’s just go for a summary of things I’ve done in the missing period: Yarn The detail page... 604 words more
I wrote a blog post on the Algolia blog: Small but impactful search UX tips for mobile web -31 words more
These last two weeks were different than the other ones, because Yarn now definitely became a lower priority for me. This is mostly because work on InstantSearch Core comes in a different gear now. So what does the proposed API look like for now? make an algoliasearch client make a... 453 words more
Great news! The detail page of Yarn has been accepted and deployed. You can now see detail pages of every package on Yarn (and thus also npm). There will be a more detailed blog post on all the things that this held in, and edgecases, but I don’t want to... 423 words more
Ah, I’ve been so busy that I forgot to write a blogpost last weekend, but I’m doing it now. First a small update on the usage of Yarn; it’s going pretty stable, which I like. The first few weeks of new search on Yarn My colleague Marie was at React... 999 words more
First a little update on the search behaviour on Yarn. We see that the operations seem to swing a little more than they did before the update, but that’s probably because the number is so much bigger now. We see that the average lays a bit below 40 000 searches... 456 words more
This has been an interesting week, not only because there was a lot of walking around and polishing the interface of Yarn search, and eventually shipping it last Saturday. But also because there was a lot of thinking towards the way to organise the library that should work with multiple... 637 words more
Time goes so fast when you’re busy, already two weeks over. I’ve been working on two sides. On one hand I am getting into improving react-instantearch, and on the other I’m busy improving the search experience of yarn. Right now the website of yarn uses instantsearch.js as a way of... 413 words more
Phew, what a busy week! I arrived Sunday and immediately went to the offices of Algolia to meet Luky who was expecting me to give me a little sneak peak to where I was going to sit. At this point I didn’t really know a lot about what to do... 278 words more
Hey, This here is the new blog I’ll use to explain my experiences doing my internship at Algolia. Right now I’m still in Belgium, at the git merge conference with a few of my year-mates. I’m leaving by train next Sunday, and am really looking forward to meeting new people... 24 words more