www.marginalia.nu on marginalia.nu

I discovered someone has made a cryptocurrency called “Memex Marginalia Inu”.

Bots are absolutely crippling the Internet ecosystem.

The Jacket An enigma.

I’d like to discuss a mental somersault that I’ve found has caused me a lot of grief in the past, which is prescriptive descriptions.

Anchor texts are a very useful source of keywords for a search engine, and in an older version of the search engine, it used the text of such hyperlinks as a supplemental source for keywords, but due to a few redesigns, this feature has fallen off.

After a bit of soul searching with regards to the future of the website, I’ve decided to open source the code for marginalia.nu, all of its services, including the search engine, encyclopedia, memex, etc.

There are a lot of ways of building software, there are many languages you could choose to build it with, many libraries to rely on, many frameworks to leverage, many architectural approaches, many platforms to choose, many paradigms of daily operations to

I found myself effectively without a job on short notice.

I’m going to think out loud for a moment about a problem I’m considering.

I’ve been working lately on a bit of an overhaul of how the search engine does indexing.

This is mostly a post to complain about something that chafes.

The search engine index has grown quite considerably the last few weeks.

Note: This is satirical in nature.

Links to articles I found interesting. https://encyclopedia.marginalia.nu/wiki/Peregrinus_Proteus https://icyphox.sh/blog/2019-09-17/ https://www.thebehavioralscientist.com/articles/the-death-of-behavioral-economics https://worthdoingbadly.com/nn-adversar…

Let’s define a simple mathematical function, the function will perform integer factoring.

I’ve caught some bug and don’t have the energy to write more than a brief note.

Tech https://datagubbe.se/ http://ebb.org/bkuhn/ http://advsys.net/ken/default.htm https://dataswamp.org/~solene/ http://boston.conman.org/ https://sylvaindurand.org/ https://www.geoffchappell.com/ https://nullprogram.com/ https://www.atarimagazines.com/…

In a near future, a team of desktop computer designers are looking at the latest telemetry and updating the schematics of the hardware-as-a-service self-assembling nanohardware.

Not what I had intended to do this Saturday, but a hard drive failed on the server this morning, or at least so it seemed.

Black hat SEO is endlessly fascinating phenomenon to study.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how difficult it has become to discover quality content on the Internet, not because it isn’t there, but because the signal to noise ratio is really bad, and most venues of discovery don’t seem to be able to handle it.

It’s been a productive several weeks.

A person might think I’m illusive, writing and working under a pseudonym.

As is often the case these dark winter seasons, I’ve fallen into a bit of a funk.

This entry is about a few problems the search engine has been struggling with lately, and how I’ve been attempting to remedy them.

At a previous job, we had a new and fancy office.

A fool has sought out the book’s greatest scientist, and asked to share his knowledge.

The phenomenon of “normies” is an interesting one.

I’ve been thinking recently about the emphasis put on “new”, specifically for search engines, but the discussion has some merit even in a wider context.

Search results are only as good as the search engine’s ability to figure out what a page is about.

This is an reply to a series of posts on anglo-centrism in programming languages that have been floating around in Gemini lately. gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-10-31.gmi gemini://alsd.eu/en/2021-11-04-thoughts-anglocentrism-cs.gmi Around thirty years ago…

This is a response to the post “Making Gemini Easy” over on ~tomasino, and the title is a bit tongue-in-cheek haha-but-no-really. gemini://tilde.team/~tomasino/journal/20211103-making-gemini-easy.gmi I think the idea that we need to shield the users from…

I want you to consider for a moment all the human lifetime wasted in ideological stalemates on the Internet, all that energy, all that anger and frustration.

You are invited to a dinner party.

There has been a bit of discussion over on Gemini recently regarding poorly behaved bots.

A recurring problem when searching for text is identifying which parts of the text are in some sense useful.

Optimization is arguably a lot about intuition.

I’ve been dealing with a botnet for the last few days, that’s been sending junk search queries at an increasingly aggressive rate.

An idea I’ve had for a long time with regards to navigating the web is to find a way to browse it.

Since my search engine has expanded its scope to include blogs as well as primordial text documents, I’ve done some thinking about how to keep up with newer websites that actually grow and see updates.

The last few days I’ve felt like my first attempt at a ranking algorithm for the search engine was pretty good, like it was producing some pretty interesting results.

https://search.marginalia.nu The October Update is live.

If you look back in history to the turn of the 20th century, you will find a lot of people wearing hats.

gemini://friends.riverside.camp/~clarity/journal/branding.gmi gemini://idiomdrottning.org/re-branding Some interesting thoughts going around on the topic of branding in software and websites.

So hacker news apparently discovered my search engine, and really took a liking to the idea.

I’ve spent some time the last week optimizing how the search engine identifies appropriate search results, putting far more consideration into where and how the search terms appear in the page when determining the order they are presented.

I spent some time today weeding out yet more link-farms from my search engine’s index.

There are a lot of small websites on the Internet: Interesting websites, beautiful websites, unique websites.

I’m currently indexing with my search engine.

This an expansion on a comment I left on Lettuce’s gemlog post, “Personal Experiences and Opinions on Version Control Software”.