On: Marginalia: DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content

[mvdwoord]

Very well done! On mobile now but will check out the site once home.

Do you happen to have a writeup somewhere of your tech stack?

[btown → mvdwoord]

Not OP but https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch/blob/ma... has a diagram and component overview!

[marginalia_nu → btown]

I'm working on the documentation. It's getting there, but it's still kinda thin in many places.

[btown → marginalia_nu]

IMO it's actually incredibly well-documented and thoughtfully organized for a one-person project! You should be proud of what you've put together here!

[marginalia_nu → btown]

Yeah I did a huge refactoring effort very recently. I put a lot of effort in making the code easy to poke around in and I feel that works very well.

But besides that, there's still a lot left to be desired when it comes to how it actually works. Not everything is easy to glean from the code alond.

[marginalia_nu → mvdwoord]

It's a Debian server running nginx into a bunch of custom java services that use the spark microframework[1]. I use a MariaDB server for link data, and I've built a bespoke index in Java.

[1] https://sparkjava.com/ I don't use springboot or anything like that, besides Spark I'm not using frameworks.