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@devSJR @BrideOfLinux Independent indexes: mojeek.com, marginalia-search.com.
#mojeek #marginalia

Nothing beats writing by hand ✍🏼

"Writing by hand is a human endeavour."

"Because my pen cannot keep up with the speed of my thoughts, especially after a few espressos, every sentence is weighed and measured before it goes down."

"Handwriting is an extension of the self."

https://spectator.com/article/nothing-beats-writing-by-hand/?edition=us

#CrossPens #Handwriting #Writing #Marginalia #JamesDixon #TheSpectator

@ctt I switched to #Marginalia years ago & never looked back.

@david_chisnall

I very much am interested in looking OS designs beyond #Unix.

For instance I felt a real need for a different programming interface, OS and filesystem while I was doing research. I thought I wanted a #Lisp Machine comeback(hence title of the blog post below). But after research, I found the precise term to be "residential style developement". Below is me blog post:

https://far.chickenkiller.com/computing/do-i-need-a-lisp-machine-comeback/

I have also seen other software developers complaining about storage interface in Operating Systems and programming languages. For instance, here's a quote from Viktor who develops #Marginalia search engine complaining about this:

> This is mostly a post to complain about something > that chafes. I wish there was a programming language (ideally several) that acknowledged that computers have hard drives, not just a processor, RAM and other_devices[].

His blog post is here:

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/53-better-hard-drive-metaphor/

You've got an indie web website and you want better discovery?

Submit your website to #Marginalia Search :)

https://marginalia-search.com

https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/submit-site-to-marginalia-search/

#smollweb #indieweb #smallweb #humanweb #searchengine #search_engine

RE: https://hcommons.social/@dbellingradt/116968408128432991

#marginalia

Okay #AskFedi does anyone have any text-based beginner resources on how to get started with turning a software manual that I have as a digital file into a fully bound book by hand?

Like, I imagine I'm going to prepare the text by using a word processor to properly layout the digital file, then I'm going to print it, and then I'm going to somehow do some folding and cutting magic to wrangle the printed A4 pages into something in the proper format, and then I'm going to use some arcane magicka to properly connect the pages and create a cover.

Resources about any step in the process appreciated, e. g. layouting, zinemaking, book binding, et cetera.

I'm also going to look things up myself on the web (yay #Marginalia), but I'd like human pointers too.

#bookprinting #zinemaking #zine #zines #bookbinding #printing #bookmaking #layouting

Are you a margin note-taker? Are your books annotated as you go?

In defence of visibly used #books Wins Bodleian Book Collecting Prize
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/defence-visibly-used-books-wins-bodleian-book-collecting-prize

#marginalia #notetaking #interactivereading #reading #learning #writing

This Marginalia Search engine is fun. Find things not always found elsewhere or that are buried.

#marginalia

https://marginalia-search.com/

pencil carrying sleeve/case in progress

#crochet #pencil #marginalia

idea of crocheting a single pencil case to wear around the neck is now stuck in my head, after i had been reading a book in the metro, wanted to make a note on the margins, and had neither a pencil nor a pen on me
#reading #books #marginalia #crochet

@jae the dev of #Marginalia search engine implemented a JavaScript-less proof-of-wait challenge, would like to see that as an alternative to Anubis

by the way, I just started getting into Gopher and am definitely going to try running a gopherhole

@OpenBSDAms @ianthetechie I've read on Lobste.rs that the developer of the #Marginalia search engine made a JavaScript-less proof-of-wait challenge that they claim it's working, they haven't made it an Anubis-like turnkey solution, but you might want to look into it
https://lobste.rs/s/k21pdb/aggressive_ai_scrapers_are_making_it

"The search engine is open source with an AGPL license. The sources can be perused at https://git.marginalia.nu/"

https://marginalia-search.com/

This is a good approach. @marginalia's code is currently on GritHub (giveupgithub.org!). But if they move it elsewhere all they need to do is redirect this URL to the new forge, and any links to it will still work. Same if they decide to self-host a forge, then find it too distracting, and move back to third-party hosting.

#Marginalia #SearchEngines #search

Just discovered for myself (even though apparently it is 5 years old) another rare bird - an independent search engine running its own webcrawler & index (most alternatives like DuckDuckGo & Startpage just use Bing or Google's) - and this one is foss, & returned some nicely relevant answers in my quick tests.
https://marginalia-search.com/

Nice to have another option! (along with Mojeek)

Public annotation induces the collective production of knowledge and ways of disseminating and searching for information and allows for effective communication to become an ongoing process. paulopinto.xyz/notes/2026/0... #annotation #marginalia #knowledge

@ireneista

Oh, the connection between magic and mathematics is well known. @cstross has written a fair bit about events involving applied computational demonology, for example.

If there really is no comment syntax for magic spells, that's unfortunate. It means practitioners probably end up scrawling their notes to themselves as marginalia, and I don't know if the magic could leak across from the main spell or what undesirable side-effects that might have.

#magic #spell #mathematics #computation #AppliedComputationalDemonology #ComputationalDemonology #marginalia #oops #SideEffect

@ArchaeoIain Wild animals at war in the Breviary of Renaud and Marguerite de Bar, Metz ca. 1302-1305. (British Library, Yates Thompson 8, f. 294r.) #marginalia https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/naughty-nuns-flatulent-monks-and-other-surprises-of-sacred-medieval-manuscripts/

Mirmecophaga Maris / Sea Anteater by Codex Urbanus
2018-08-04 #Brussels

#bestiary #Bruxelles #marginalia #codex #urbanArt #graffiti #urbex

Marathon day tomorrow…

Well, it's been a long road since I raced the dinosaurs at a New Year's Day parkrun. I've managed various niggles (knee, glute, achilles... yawn). I've run around the amazing Ladybower Reservoir, across St Mark's Square, even chased Alistair Brownlee down Regent's Park Canal. (He is faster than the dinosaurs.)

And tomorrow: it's my first marathon. Quite possibly my only marathon. I'v

https://timharford.com/2026/04/marathon-day-tomorrow/

#Marginalia

"The history of #Emacs completion frameworks is a progression from monolithic solutions toward composable ones."

This is a comprehensive summary, with a thorough and fair history. A long read, but worth it.

I plateaued at #Vertico #Orderless #Marginalia #Consult years ago. Maybe time to learn the others, one at a time.

https://www.chiply.dev/post-vompeccc

@oantolin @minad

#emacs

Running a marathon for Winnie

On 26 April, I plan to be on the start line of the London Marathon. I’m in my fifties, I’ve only been running for a few years, and this will be my first marathon. I’m doing it to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT).

Cancer is brutal for anyone. For teenagers and young adults, it can be isolating in a particular way: while friends are setting off on the adventures o

https://timharford.com/2026/04/running-a-marathon-for-winnie/

#Marginalia