Microfeatures in My Blog

For search on static sites, I quite like lunrjs to provide a fast, good enough, client-side-only search experience. I came for the feature set and stayed for the tagline... &quot;Lunr: A bit like Solr, but smaller and not as bright.&quot;<p>Another neat trick is to create an FTS search index in SQLite, and have the client query it with sql.js-httpvfs [1]. Works with github pages just fine [2]... Your web server must respect HTTP range requests.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phiresky&#x2F;sql.js-httpvfs">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phiresky&#x2F;sql.js-httpvfs</a><p>[2] With the caveat that you have to commit your database index (lunr&#x27;s json, or sqlite&#x27;s db file) to source, because gh pages does not support serving objects managed by git LFS.

My favorite feature in blogs is that they load fast, are readable, and work well without JavaScript.<p>This should be the baseline but sadly, in 2024, a lot of writers shoot themselves in the foot by having slow, overly complicated sites that get in the way of the content.