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

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Recent Updates

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.

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.

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