Weblog on marginalia.nu

June 18, 2024 One year of solo dev, wrapping up the grant-funded work
May 26, 2024 Feynman's Garden
May 16, 2024 Experiment in Java native calls
May 05, 2024 Using DuckDB to seamlessly query a large parquet file over HTTP
April 17, 2024 Query Parsing and Understanding
April 10, 2024 Deep Bug
February 28, 2024 The Yak Shave
February 25, 2024 Marginalia: 3 Years
February 07, 2024 Best SEO spam 2024 reddit
January 30, 2024 Contexts, Friction and Distractions
January 29, 2024 Charlatans spreading misleading beginner advice are the evolutionary crabs of youtube content creators
December 28, 2023 A Hobby Coding Biography
December 22, 2023 A Frivolous Feature
December 20, 2023 How To Read An Article On The Internet
December 20, 2023 WARC'in the crawler
November 07, 2023 Anchor Tags
October 30, 2023 Partitioning The Index
October 19, 2023 The List
October 07, 2023 Moving Marginalia to a New Server
September 23, 2023 A Disk Usage Mystery
September 15, 2023 Marginalia Search receives FUTO Grant
August 30, 2023 Absurd Success
August 22, 2023 Sleeping at Night
August 12, 2023 Life in 1080p
August 12, 2023 Message Queues, State Machines, Actors, UI
June 16, 2023 Full Time
June 11, 2023 Killing Community
May 19, 2023 Confessions
May 08, 2023 R.I.P. Memex
May 04, 2023 An off-ramp from the digital IKEA maze
April 21, 2023 Thoughts on AI and AI-veganism
March 25, 2023 Going Github
March 23, 2023 Search Result Quality For Multiple Terms
March 17, 2023 The Grand Code Restructuring
February 26, 2023 Marginalia Search: 2 years, big news
February 06, 2023 A new approach to domain ranking
January 27, 2023 Are you ok?
January 13, 2023 Memex Design
January 03, 2023 Faster Index Joins
December 26, 2022 Creepy Website Similarity
December 23, 2022 On Wizards and Sorcerers
November 07, 2022 The best ideas come AFK
October 27, 2022 Carbon Dating HTML
October 25, 2022 Scaling doesn't scale
October 21, 2022 Marginalia's Index Reaches 100,000,000 Documents
August 23, 2022 The Evolution of Marginalia's crawling
August 18, 2022 Marginaliacoin, and hidden forums
August 03, 2022 Botspam Apocalypse
July 14, 2022 On Prescriptive Descriptions
June 23, 2022 Fun with Anchor Text Keywords
May 27, 2022 marginalia.nu goes open source
May 06, 2022 I don't know how to build software
April 28, 2022 Uncertain Future For Marginalia Search
April 11, 2022 Lexicon Architectural Rubberducking
April 07, 2022 The Bargain Bin B-Tree
April 03, 2022 Is There A Better Hard Drive Metaphor?
March 23, 2022 Growing Pains
March 18, 2022 The Static File Startup
March 14, 2022 A meditation on correctness in software
February 25, 2022 Marginalia Search: 1 year
February 21, 2022 I have no capslock and I must scream
February 19, 2022 Drive Failure
February 07, 2022 The Anatomy of Search Engine Spam
February 04, 2022 Can we unfuck internet discoverability?
January 18, 2022 Discovery and Design Considerations
January 15, 2022 Pseudonymous
January 02, 2022 Dark
December 10, 2021 Search Result Relevance
December 04, 2021 Wasted Resources
November 13, 2021 A brief hypothesis about "normies"
November 12, 2021 Old and New
November 11, 2021 A Jaunt Through Keyword Extraction
November 05, 2021 Localized Programming Languages
November 04, 2021 Keeping Gemini Difficult
November 02, 2021 A Polemic Against Internet Arguments
October 28, 2021 The Parable of A Rude Guest
October 25, 2021 Bot Apologetics
October 22, 2021 Shaking N-gram needles from large haystacks
October 13, 2021 Unintuitive Optimization
October 10, 2021 The Mystery of the Ceaseless Botnet DDoS
October 09, 2021 Web Browsing
October 06, 2021 Getting with the times
October 02, 2021 Experimenting with Personalized PageRank
October 01, 2021 Astrolabe - The October Update
September 27, 2021 Thoughts on Silly Hats
September 21, 2021 Re: Software and Branding
September 19, 2021 Against the Flood
September 14, 2021 New Solutions Creating Old Problems
September 09, 2021 The Curious Case of the Dot-Com Link Farms
September 08, 2021 The Small Website Discoverability Crisis
September 02, 2021 Soaring High
August 28, 2021 Git Isn't A Web Service
August 27, 2021 Cursed Motivation
August 23, 2021 Stages of Being
August 15, 2021 Enter the Circle of Blame
August 13, 2021 Rendered static HTML
August 04, 2021 Bye, Bye, Gmail
August 04, 2021 Dying, Every Day (Re: Last times)
August 03, 2021 The Astrolabe Part II: The Magic Power of Sampling Bias
July 30, 2021 The System Upgrade
July 28, 2021 Whatever happened to the Memex?
July 26, 2021 Local Backlinks
July 23, 2021 Index Optimizations
July 18, 2021 The Mind's A Field
July 14, 2021 On Link Farms
July 12, 2021 Writing for Reading
July 08, 2021 Re: To unit test or not to unit test, that is the question
July 07, 2021 The Astrolabe Part I: Lenscraft
June 30, 2021 Thoughts on the linkpocalypse