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This is awesome. I really enjoyed the UI and the no javascript.

Could i ask you a question? What is your tech stack? (programing language, background worker, database) How often does the index updates?

Are you planning to make it open source?



Always happy to answer questions! The code is mostly Node.js, with a lot of shell scripts to glue things together. The “background worker” is mostly me running things in tmux, though I do (ab)use GitLab CI for some scheduled tasks. The main full-text index is currently ElasticSearch (as I mention elsewhere in this thread, I’m not a fan of it); various other data in the ingestion process is stored a combination of JSON-Lines files, SQLite, and bespoke binary formats as needed. Because I’m squeezing this into the hardware I have, the details are generally dictated by performance constraints for the particular problem at hand.

Update frequency depends on the data source, details here: https://search.feep.dev/about/datasources

No plans to open-source it at the moment; that implies a level of stewardship that I don’t have the energy for at the moment, and also some of the code is kind of tied to my specific server right now.




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