Show HN: I converted my notebook into a searchable database of IT keywords

[jurajstefanic]

https://techbook.digital/

[card_zero]

* Successfully looked up RLHF (reinforcement learning from human feedback)

* Failed when looking up NIH (not invented here)

Hmm. Would you mind devoting the rest of your life to making this dictionary comprehensive, and keeping it updated?

Slightly smaller request: could you make it possible to select and copy the definitions?

[wizzwizz4 → card_zero]

  :root body { user-select: auto; }

Slap this in a userstyle, and it'll override lines 545–546 of the stylesheet, restoring the expected behaviour.

[jurajstefanic → card_zero]

I’ll do my best to keep it updated regularly! I’ve added the copy functionality now to each definition entry - no need for that extra step of selecting!

[card_zero → jurajstefanic]

Well, I didn't want to copy the whole thing, I wanted to select and copy it myself, as is standard and expected. I don't want a handy search button that sends me to google, either, since I don't use google. If you keep on helping me to do things I didn't want to, I'll have a user experience.

[jurajstefanic → card_zero]

Thanks for the feedback, this makes a lot of sense. I modified it accordingly.

[card_zero → jurajstefanic]

Good job! What you could do is have a whole bunch of different lookup links, behind words instead of buttons, so it isn't mystery meat navigation. Like how Onelook has "Google, News, Images, Wikipedia, Reddit, BlueSky".

https://onelook.com/?w=mystery+meat+navigation&loc=rel_phras...

[GauntletWizard → jurajstefanic]

You may want to wholesale import The Jargon File. Badly out of date at this point, but surprisingly relevant and of more than moderate value as a historical reference.

[staplung]

Great work. Love the austere style.

Nit: don't think you need to prefix "database" with "searchable". If it's a DB, searchability is implied.

[LoganDark]

Doesn't seem to have "RTFM" (Read The Fucking/Friendly Manual)

[redeux → LoganDark]

That was the first thing I searched for too

[jurajstefanic → redeux]

Refresh and it's there!

[perdomon]

Love the neo-brutalism look. What do you think about crowd-sourcing the glossary or creating a submission form for new terms?

[jurajstefanic → perdomon]

Thanks! Added a submission form for the new words and definitions (also in the neo-brutalism style).

As for crowd-sourcing the glossary, that is also planned. I just need to structure the existing entries first, and it's good to go! It will be published as part of the GitHub repository.

[atmanactive]

This is great. Thanks for this.

The only thing I'm missing is the automatic dark mode (respecting operating system's dark/light theme). If you want I could add that in a pull request.

[jurajstefanic → atmanactive]

Thanks! Great suggestion. Feel free to open a pull request and add it.

[atmanactive → jurajstefanic]

I did. Seven days ago. No response from you.

[Jotalea]

The first three words that got into my mind (kernel, Linux, operating system) were not here. I guess this is for another sector of IT?

[mindwork]

I couldn't find anything that I put there: DRY, RBAC, Duck(-typing), Liskov, b-tree

[jurajstefanic → mindwork]

Added! If you happen to think of any more, you can use the contribution form to submit them.

[kagevf]

Maybe consider adding a highlight to the search term in the (filtered) text.

[jurajstefanic → kagevf]

Great idea! Adding it now.

[tro2102]

Cool!

nit: you've got a casing mismatch between Devops and DevOps

[jurajstefanic → tro2102]

Nice catch. Fixed!

[Izuchukwu-Eric]

Great work! I will be needing this

[smusamashah]

Are those definitions LLM generated?

[hereaiham]

neat

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