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by iansinnott 3y ago
A bit of a late response, but yes I've been storing full text of every website I visit and it's excellent for finding stuff again. The idea is to index pages as you visit them using a browser extension, thus avoiding all the pitfa
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by iansinnott 3y ago
I would assume it runs on the edge, since it runs in the browser via WASM. It's also implemented in Rust, which provides some flexibility. It will likely depend on the specific edge runtime though. The runtime would need something rese
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by iansinnott 3y ago
Yeah, thanks for linking to the issue. I'm one of the upvotes on that. However, the age of that issue suggests to me that current contributors are (or have historically been) uninterested in a REST API. Still, would be great to see suc
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by iansinnott 3y ago
I've used it for about a year. ArchiveBox works well. My only complaint is that there's no JSON API to trigger archiving a page--it's primarily a CLI tool despite being built with Django. This can be worked around of course,
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by iansinnott 3y ago
Curious how this works. I've experimented with in-browser vector search using victor[1] with mixed results. Hadn't heard of this orama lib before checking out your project. [1]: https://github.com/not-pizza/vi
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by iansinnott 3y ago
I'll second the chorus of those curious to hear how you've customized the search engine. I was able to reproduce the lackluster results, and was sadly disappointed. I expected what you seem to have found, that Kagi would outperfor
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by iansinnott 3y ago
This game will suck you in. It's wonderful. A great holiday game actually. Good timing on this post. I first played it because I heard it described as "Factorio lite", which seems fairly apt after playing it. It's not ne
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by iansinnott 3y ago
Not currently, but it was initially built with that in mind. Namely, i used web extension polyfills to unify the extension API of Chrome and FF. However, while trying to achieve MV3 compatibility I used chrome-only APIs because the polyfill
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by iansinnott 3y ago
For that I would recommend Orion, since it uses the same underlying engine as Safari but can run Chrome plugins. A Safari-native extension would be interesting if it could also be used on mobile, although I haven't looked into how that
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by iansinnott 3y ago
yup, it's on the todo list. I started building this with cross-browser in mind, and later stopped using the generic web extension APIs to get everything working. getting this working with manifest v3 was a pain, but doable. now that it
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by iansinnott 3y ago
https://github.com/iansinnott/full-text-tabs-forever
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by iansinnott 3y ago
This project came about because I wanted to search over things like HN comments in my browsing history. First attempts were via CLI tools, which required making a request to fetch HTML. This doesn't always work and correlated with an i
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Show HN: Full-Text Search the Browser History Using SQLite and WASM(github.com)
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by iansinnott 3y ago
Thanks for creating the benchmarks, I hadn't heard of most of those libs. I seem to remember that modernc worked great until i added a FTS5 [1] table and things became very slow. This was a while ago now, so it may have changed or I ma
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by iansinnott 3y ago
Cheers! would be happy to have contribution. I've been using it for longer than the publish date. A few months at this point. It's also roughly twice the size it needs to be I think, as the FTS index could be optimized. So there&#
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by iansinnott 3y ago
It doesn't take up too much space. Currently about 70mb on my system. It will grow over time of course. It used a distilled version of the web page, i.e. "reader mode" and indexes that rather than the full HTML. So yes it ind
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by iansinnott 3y ago
I have something of an obsession with being able to search my digital history. To this end I've created a few projects which I still use almost daily: - full text tabs forever [1]: chrome extension to provide full text search over web
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by iansinnott 3y ago
Would also be curious. Wondering what the state of the art is for local vector stores. i.e. the sqlite of vector stores.
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by iansinnott 3y ago
It used to be that you could create a Hackintosh with cheap hardware. Had a really fast "mac" this way a few years back. Unfortunately since apple is moving away from Intel this may not be viable anymore.
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by iansinnott 3y ago
it appears so, if you're in the EU: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/10/facebook-and-instagram-to-...
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by iansinnott 3y ago
Keyboard Maestro is excellent. Makes automation on macOS way more fun, IMO. One nifty feature I haven't seen mentioned yet is that it can click on the screen based on OCR. So, if there's some UI element you want to interact with a
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by iansinnott 3y ago
Thanks for elaborating, that makes sense. Historically WebSQL would drop a real live SQLite database onto the disk (in some application support directory for the browser) which was very convenient for exactly this use case. It's unfort
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by iansinnott 3y ago
What are the limitations of OPFS not being a real file system? 100% agree that the file system API ergonomics make it unusable as the storage layer for a local-first application. OPFS seems promising though, which is why I ask the above.
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by iansinnott 3y ago
Move away as in find another audiobook vendor? Or simply retain access to your existing collection? Audiobooks from Audible can be downloaded via the UI. They will have DRM, but it's possible to remove. If you have audiobook files with
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by iansinnott 3y ago
Recently I discovered there's no more "Non-commercial" lens. I'm still a happy Kagi user but I found that lens helpful for avoiding over-SEOd sites filled with affiliate links and was disappointed to see it gone.
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by iansinnott 3y ago
Does linuxserver.io have a bad reputation? or is it just that it's yet another dependency in the stack? Asking because I've been happy with their containers so far
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by iansinnott 3y ago
Oh, didn't know that about Android. That's a definite improvement. > yet Is there supposed planned support for this on iOS? Seems like it would be counter to Apple's incentives, but I'd love to see it happen.
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by iansinnott 3y ago
There is still no way to trigger an "install on homepage" dialogue from javascript, right? This seems to be the biggest limiting factor to me—The need for PWAs to include _instructions on how_ to install the app rather than a butt
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by iansinnott 3y ago
Strongly disagree about the Pinecone developer experience. Not that they don't have SDKs, but last I checked they didn't have documentation on how to approach local dev environments. The implication being that you spin up a separa
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by iansinnott 3y ago
Web devs still have to pay an unfortunate amount of attention to Safari if they want to support mobile. Admittedly, they're unlikely to test against desktop Safari but it's the same engine as the mobile version if I'm not mis

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