www.marginalia.nu

You may be looking for one of the following things

🔗 Search Engine
🔗 Encyclopedia (not mobile-friendly!)
🔗 Website Explorer^improved
🔗 Similar Website Finder
🔗 Server Status

My name is Viktor. I’m a Swedish software engineer and hypertext enjoyer. Marginalia is a website I’ve built. It’s really almost a bunch of websites on a common theme. If you find yourself clicking a link and ending up on a page that looks completely different, that’s just how things are.

🌎 Marginalia Search on GitHub
🦤 @MarginaliaNu on Twitter
🦤 @marginalia@mastodon.social
📺 @ViktorLofgren on YouTube
✉️ kontakt@marginalia.nu on Email

Site Index

Recent Updates

2025-03-27 Crawl Order and Disorder in log

A problem the search engine’s crawler has struggled with for some time is that it takes a fairly long time to finish up, usually spending several days wrapping up the final few domains. This has been actualized recently, since the migration to slop crawl data has dropped memory requirements of the crawler by something like 80%, and as such I’ve been able to increase the number of crawling tasks, which has led to a bizarre case where 99.

2025-03-25 Marginalia Search receives second nlnet grant in log

I’m happy and grateful to announce that the Marginalia Search project has been accepted for a second nlnet grant. All the details are not yet finalized, but tentatively the grant will go toward addressing most of the items in the project roadmap for 2025. I’ve already been working full time on the project since summer 2023, and this grant secures additional development time, and extends the runway to a comfortable degree.

2025-03-22 Improved ways to operate a rude crawler in log

This text is satirical in nature. Tech news is abuzz with rude AI crawlers that forge their user-agent and ignore robots.txt. In my opinion, if this is all the AI startups can muster, they’re losing their touch. wget can do this. You need to up your game, get that crawler really rolling coal. Flagrant disregard for externalities is an important signal to the investors that your AI startup is the one.

2025-03-03 Marginalia Search: 4 Years in log

This update is a few days late, the canonical birth date of the project is Feb 26. It has been another year of Marginalia Search. The project is still ongoing, still my full time job, although the project is entering a somewhat more mature phase of development, most of the big pieces are in place and do a decent job at what they do. The roadmap for the project is available on GitHub.

2025-01-18 How to make an android dumbphone in misc

Want a dumb phone but live somewhere that requires a smartphone app to park your car or pay your bills, or have friends that are only reachable via Messenger or some other app? Googles hate this one weird trick: Simply uninstall all irrelevant apps and disable everything that can’t be uninstalled, including chrome. This can be done by long pressing the icons in the launcher menu, and going to app info.

Tags