How the search engine manages RSS feeds to update its index.

Originally the plan was to put a simple RSS feed in the site inspection view, though it turns out feed data is very useful for a search engine in discovering new links. The feed view is still a nice addition and a good way of ensuring that the feed discovery and retrieval is actually working well.

There is no clear resources on how to read from SSDs. As long as the read access amount can be reduced, then it is all good.

A complex challenge as the official standards are implemented in few websites.
Guesses have to be made.

How a startup serving files can make this wrong

An argument for GitHub against self-hosted source code forgery.

The main reason is I’m kind of tired of the amount of spam bots that keep signing up to my Gitea.

Wizard programmers prefer up-front design. They apply reason and logic to divide and conquer a large problem, they rely on building blocks like design patterns and algorithms. Wizards rely on explicit knowledge.

D&D sorcerers have an innate connection to the magic. They wield tremendous forces that they sometimes don’t quite understand, it’s wild and unpredictable. It’s not something they’ve learned to do, but something they’ve discovered in themselves, a talent.

I like the comparison because it seems right.

An independant DIY search engine.

The engine favorises text-dense sites over sites full of javascript or images.