Of the people who write code in their spare time, many are building an app for a specific purpose. And while I've done that as well (e.g. with Obskurnee), most
I'm slowly adding features to my Universal Personal Search project, which lets me search across my various data sources. Up to this point, there were 2 main ways data could flow
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?
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.