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RSS Feeds and Real Time Crawling
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_113_rtc/
Published: December 26, 2024 00:00
A while back an update went live that, with some caveats, changes the time it takes for an update on a website to reflect in the search engine index from up to 2 months to 1-2 days. Conditions being if the website has an RSS or Atom feed.
The big crawl job…
Notes on binary soup
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_112_slop_ideas/
Published: November 5, 2024 00:00
I recently put together a small library called Slop, for intermediate on-disk data representation for the search engine, replacing a few ad-hoc formats I had in place before.
This post isn’t so much an attempt to convince anyone else to use this library,…
Phrase Matching in Marginalia Search
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_111_phrase_matching/
Published: September 30, 2024 00:00
Marginalia Search now properly supports phrase matching. This not only permits a more robust implementation of quoted search queries, but also helps promote results where the search terms occur in the document exactly in the same order as they do in the…
The sorry state of Java deserialization
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_110_java_io/
Published: September 22, 2024 00:00
I’ve been on a bit of a frustration-driven quest to solve a problem I frequently encounter working on the search engine, that is, reading data from disk.
You’d think this would be a pretty basic thing, but doing this in a way that is half-way performant is…
Less Coffee, Better Sleep
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_109_sleep2/
Published: July 31, 2024 00:00
As an experiment, I’ve reduced my coffee-intake to a single cup a day for about a week now. It’s made an enormous difference in sleep, mood and energy. I get tired at night, fall asleep quickly, and wake up refreshed.
As mentioned previously in the context…
One year of solo dev, wrapping up the grant-funded work
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_107_nlnext/
Published: June 18, 2024 00:00
A year ago I walked out of the office for the last time. I handed in my corpo laptop, said some good-byes, and since then I have been my own boss.
This first year has been funded by an NLnet grant, which I’m in the midst of wrapping up. As of now, the work…