#marginalia — Public Fediverse posts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

@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

#RYM developers have long claimed that they wouldn't be able to defend the site against AI scraping and DDoS without Cloudflare.
Since a few years ago, there's now the alternative solution of Anubis, yet they haven't adopted it.
Now I'm reading on Lobste.rs that the developer of #Marginalia (a search engine for the small web) has implemented a proof-of-wait challenge that can work even without Javascript (some security folks prefer using browsing without Javascript on):

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

"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)

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

@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/

@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

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

"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

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

Dear Lovely Peeps - a bit of whimsy to start your week. 😊

The sight of this never fails to make me laugh & I want someone in my life I can do this with! 🤩

(For a starting information point on the artists involved (Caoimhe Dunn & Dominic Palmer) and links to other snail tales, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cbpv5uFpmc)

#Marginalia #Snails

Dear Lovely Peeps - a bit of whimsy to start your week. 😊

The sight of this never fails to make me laugh & I want someone in my life I can do this with! 🤩

(For a starting information point on the artists involved (Caoimhe Dunn & Dominic Palmer) and links to other snail tales, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cbpv5uFpmc)

#Marginalia #Snails

progress in science according to medieval horses: futile or feudal? Happyish New Year 👀 #MedSky #EpiSky #IDSky #publichealth #covidconscious #nursesky #ChronicIllness #Conservation #anthropocene #environment #science #AcademicSky #Eqbsky #horses #firehorse #medieval #marginalia

progress in science according to medieval horses: futile or feudal? Happyish New Year 👀 #MedSky #EpiSky #IDSky #publichealth #covidconscious #nursesky #ChronicIllness #Conservation #anthropocene #environment #science #AcademicSky #Eqbsky #horses #firehorse #medieval #marginalia

My dry-erase child is teething. Oh. Wait. He's gone. My daughter snuffed him.

#Photography #OriginalPhoto #Sketches #Sketching #Marginalia #GIMPSoftware #Doodle #Doodles #HalfHeartedFanatic

RE: https://mastodon.uno/@giuseppegv/115730518668624174

I like the idea of this post. Here is mine with some additions of my own:

OS
- Desktop and laptop
- #Debian 13 with #Cinnamon
#homelab server
- #Proxmox 9 with #Debian and #HomeAssistant OS VM's
Email
Service providers
- @disroot and @Tutanota
Client
- #Betterbird
Notes
- @logseq
Browser
Desktop
- @librewolf , and @torproject
Mobile
- #IronFox
VPN
- @mullvadnet
Password and TOTP Manager
- @keepassxc with #Syncthing
Search
- #DuckDuckGo , @ecosia , and @marginalia
Social
- @Mastodon and @pixelfed

Edit: Today I ran ``` sudo apt remove --purge firefox ``` because of statements from Mozilla CEO today.

#FOSS #Debian #GNULinux #GNU #Linux #Proxmox #homelab #homeassistant #disroot #tuta #tutanota #betterbird #logseq #Mozilla #Firefox #Librewolf #Tor #Torproject #IronFox #Mullvad #MullvadVPN #VPN #TOTP #KeePassXC #Syncthing #DuckDuckGo #Marginalia #Mastodon #Pixelfed

A new version of my #LuaLaTeX package ‘marginalia’ is now available on CTAN. [https://ctan.org/pkg/marginalia]

A new feature allows adding an arrow or other symbol next to the line relevant to the marginal note. (Example attached.) Even if the position of the marginal note is automatically adjusted (to avoid overlaps etc.), the arrow remains in place.

New vertical alignment options are available: centrally positioned (probably better for placing pictures in the margin) or midway between top/bottom lines (probably better for text-only margin notes).

The documentation has been improved with more explanation and examples.

General info: ‘marginalia’ allows the placement of marginal notes (or other marginal content) anywhere, without \marginpar’s limits, and automatically adjusts positions to prevent either overlaps or content being pushed off the page, and uses key–value settings that allow fine-grained customization.

There is an #OpenAccess introduction to ‘marginalia’ in ‘TUGboat: Communications of the TeX Users Group’: https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb46-1/tb142cain-marginalia.pdf

#TeXLaTeX #typography #marginalia

Seeking your bizarre hypothetical economics questions…

It's become something of a seasonal tradition - with apologies to the remarkable Randall Munroe - for me to tackle your bizarre hypothetical economics questions. To give you a sense of what I meanm here are some questions from previous years:

What if DogeCoin became the official US currency?

How big would an asteroid made

https://timharford.com/2025/12/seeking-your-bizarre-hypothetical-economics-questions/

#Marginalia

What’s it like to play with a professional Dungeon Master?

I've played tabletop role-playing games for forty years or so, but I've never played in a "professional" game. That changed last week when - as a guest of RPG Taverns in south London - I was given a run through one of the new adventures in "Welcome to Hellfire Club", which is the new D&D boxed set based on the game Eddie

https://timharford.com/2025/11/whats-it-like-to-play-with-a-professional-dungeon-master/

#Marginalia

new medieval marginalia creature cards up on my ko-fi shop!!

Double Creature: https://ko-fi.com/s/e5af3420f6
The Aberdeen Bestiary, f68v

Dragon: https://ko-fi.com/s/f68d2fc33a
the Alphonso Psalter, BL Add ms 24686

Bunny Critter: https://ko-fi.com/s/49579eb3fb
Psalterium, BNF Latin 10435, f21v

Flying Critter: https://ko-fi.com/s/444bdf707c
Psalter-Hours, the Morgan, MS M.183, f284r

#alienBlockPrints #medieval #marginalia #linoCut #linoPrint #blockPrint #art #fediGiftShop