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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

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2024-12-28 How to remove ghostty's gnome aesthetic on Linux in misc

Ghostty by default looks like a gnome app even outside of gnome, with a hamburger menu and complete disregard for the system theme. Put the values below in the config file, which for me was in .config/ghostty/config ; and then close every ghostty window and restart the application for the changes to take effect. window-theme = system gtk-titlebar = false gtk-wide-tabs = false gtk-adwaita = false

2024-12-26 RSS Feeds and Real Time Crawling in log

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 takes about two months, and is run partition by partition, meaning there’s typically a slice of the index that is two months stale at any given point in time.

2024-11-05 Notes on binary soup in log

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, as it makes trade-offs catering to a fairly niche use case, but to explore some of its design ideas, as it all came together very nicely, in the hopes that other libraries can draw ideas from it.

2024-10-14 Release Notes v2024.10.0 in release-notes

This is a new major release of marginalia search, mostly leaning toward the technical side. Emphasis has been on ensuring the search engine has the technical capabilities to serve more types of queries, especially longer queries which it previously did not handle very well. Effort has also been put toward making sure it’s possible to install and run outside of docker. There is still some work to be done to streamline the installation process, but we’re getting there.

2024-09-30 Phrase Matching in Marginalia Search in log

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 query. This is a write-up about implementing this change. This is going to be a relatively long post, as it represents about 4 months of work. I’m also happy and grateful to announce that the nlnet people reached out after the run of the grant was over and asked me if I had more work in the pipe, and agreed to fund this change as well!

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