nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqv309whmvlhl066dw2l3qp2wckfgyfwtlp54j0rrcwdcx7a9cvprqnwgdfh nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq7eyh0dh873mapwcpa306m3s0jr2ywf5xexmngxrumdm6p52qyyfqypcfat (FWIW I would generally share a gift link if it was paywalled.)
He technically runs two:
Traditional: https://searcha.page
Privacy-focused: https://seek.ninja
How'd he do it? With the help of a lot of AI and about a year of long nights. Very little of it is hosted on the cloud.
FYI: This piece is on Hacker News so the search engine is a bit hit at the moment. The site loads but results don't show.
About a month or two ago, I got an intriguing email with the subject line “The Laundry Room Search Engine.”
A guy built his own quite-good search engine—and yes, it's currently sitting in his laundry room. Here's how he did it:
https://www.fastcompany.com/91396271/searcha-page-seekninja-diy-search-engines
He technically runs two:
Traditional: https://searcha.page
Privacy-focused: https://seek.ninja
How'd he do it? With the help of a lot of AI and about a year of long nights. Very little of it is hosted on the cloud.
About a month or two ago, I got an intriguing email with the subject line “The Laundry Room Search Engine.”
A guy built his own quite-good search engine—and yes, it's currently sitting in his laundry room. Here's how he did it:
https://www.fastcompany.com/91396271/searcha-page-seekninja-diy-search-engines
So apparently we are within the last 60 days of dial-up AOL being a thing.
https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued
Just learned there was a new Google udm code discovered. So you know what I had to do.
Still kicking in on the DNS front, but it’s already up.
People who try to inject culture war drama into open-source projects *cough Dunluke cough* don’t deserve a moment of your time
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq5x4zdwm9h6f88jpsslct9ehxffg0cnr0ejhp9t0pz60s2qx6myvsqtqz4g it's because there's a "noindex" tag in the head. This is telling search engines not to display the article in search results
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq4sg54a8t8800fq3hnz2dtthtxgw0znl8agcskjp629t6t2fl3tqq557azx nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq5x4zdwm9h6f88jpsslct9ehxffg0cnr0ejhp9t0pz60s2qx6myvsqtqz4g Also “noarchive.” It’s been specifically barred from the Internet Archive.
I bought the Jesse Welles album. He doesn’t have a Bandcamp. I had to buy it from Amazon.
Southwest’s tech debt hurt it a few months ago but it seems to be doing it some favors today.
Windows 3.1 taketh away, but sometimes Windows 3.1 giveth.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/southwest-cloudstrike-windows-3-1/
It’s not at all surprising, but this sucks. https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/jimmy-fallon-tonight-show-toxic-work-environment-crying-rooms-nbc-1234819421/
A big chunk of Motherboard’s staff just went off and built their own thing.
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nostr:npub1w9ayld9gf83lfcn5gwrayg2se0yvmwymcce28nsrljc6f5fmfkys4304m0 yeah, I think this is a real deficit. Memberful is something I know a lot of people like/use, but I don’t know the cost structure. WordPress just introduced new newsletter thing via JetPack that is interesting.
nostr:npub1utv8fr27ca4hvjes9y9wt9uev2u6hnwsdjf7wf6dlwpycknjajtq7287lr I’m not looking to make another CMS leap, but I am feeling the limitations of late.
nostr:npub1w9ayld9gf83lfcn5gwrayg2se0yvmwymcce28nsrljc6f5fmfkys4304m0 I don’t think there is a way to move the recurring subscriptions. I think the best way would be to put it in maintainance mode and try to use the new platform/encourage people to migrate. And then backfill stuff for old supporters.
nostr:npub1utv8fr27ca4hvjes9y9wt9uev2u6hnwsdjf7wf6dlwpycknjajtq7287lr I will say, side note, that Craft is not proving to be a great solution for membership/paywall long-term. Not much software has been made in that direction and it requires other software that costs lots of money.
Tedium has long had a Patreon, but I haven’t done a ton to promote it in recent years in part because of time and management challenges.
I would like to get back into that, however. My question is: If I wanted to move somewhere else, how could I do so without losing a consistent couple hundred dollars of revenue each month?