Rapture in Everything

From Calibre to Meilisearch

After a short while of thinking about how best to write something that will load Calibre's data and send it to Meilisearch, and then thinking about what a hassle it'd be to have to remember to run it after every change, I thought: hey, what if I wrote a Calibre plugin? How hard could it be?...

Universal Personal Search - the tech stack

The previous post on building a Search app that would index all of my data outlined what I want to achieve, but didn't go into any technical details. This post briefly outlines those....

Towards a Universal Personal Search

I've always intended to build a system that would take in all my info, index it, and make it searchable. I now have a working alpha....

Chatroom as an archive - Matrix scores again!

When the recent Twitter fiasco started, I created a chatroom with a few friends, so we could watch it burn together. We've been sharing screenshots, links, commentary - it's been a lot of fun. Even better now that Reddit has joined! But besides a few giggles, I wondered whether I could use the chatroom itself as an archive. If I wanted to go back to it, say, in two years and have a few laughs at Elon's expense again, could I? It doesn't really seem feasible within Whatapp itself. It does kee...

New book feed, new landing page

When I first started using this domain, some 10+ years ago, I've decided to put the blogs into subfolders, not onto the root of the domain (so not on zblesk.net, but on zblesk.net/blog and zblesk.net/sk), and redirect from the root to this blog. My reasoning was the usual, "I might need it later". Surprisingly, I actually did. 😁 So as of now, the landing page looks like this: The link to the blog is highlighted, for now. All of this is a work in progress, by the way - even if progress might...