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This reminds me… some time ago I made my own Firefox extension to do full-text search of all my webpages. It’s in three parts: a server running in the backgroun
by bradrn 2y ago
This reminds me… some time ago I made my own Firefox extension to do full-text search of all my webpages. It’s in three parts: a server running in the background to interface with an SQLite database, a minimal extension to send text to that server, and a little GUI to query the database.
Unfortunately, all this makes it an utter pain to set up. It’s also somewhat specialised to my own very minimal needs. When I’ve mentioned it in the past, people have suggested open-sourcing it, but for these reasons I’ve resisted it. This post now makes me wonder if I should look into ways to improve it…
- KomoD 2y ago> When I’ve mentioned it in the past, people have suggested open-sourcing it, but for these reasons I’ve resisted it. Could just open-source it "as is", there's probably some people that would be interested in just messing around with it or using it as a base
- bradrn 2y agoYeah, you’re probably right. They’d have to be familiar with the rather eclectic mix of languages I used (Haskell, C++ and JavaScript), but then again that’s no reason not to publish it. To be honest, I’m not quite sure why I haven’t just put it online… sheer laziness, I guess.