Rapture in Everything

Posts tagged "hobbies and projects"

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....

Exploring a game hoard

I've always kept records of video games I buy (or redeem for free). Given how many various services there are, I found it useful to jot down what I bought where, and where I can get the game when I want to play it. (E.g., I might buy a game on Humble Bundle, but get it in the form of a redeem code on Steam.) This post outlines how I managed it to make it as useful as possible, and make exploring the depths of it fun. When game bundles became a thing, all this became even more important;...

StoryGraph profile support for Obskurnee

Last time I mentioned I'm not using Goodreads anymore. I've exported my data and moved to StoryGraph. I'm still not sure if I want to stick around permanently; there are some issues. However, in the meantime, I still wanted to use Obskurnee, my book club app. Originally, it allowed a user to enter a Goodreads profile link, then used its RSS feeds to display the books he or she is currently reading within Obskurnee. On the "About us" page it also provides a nice, at-a-glance overview of what the...