[dang-guefever]

From TFA:

2021-10-22 - Search ===================

#feature

Another thing that's useful is to be able to find things on a site. How do I find that post I remember reading that talked about skipping over all the sourdough?

Lo and behold, blog.txt has powerful fulltext search: your computer's built in search engine is much better than most blog search engines. Just hit CTRL+F and type "skipping over all the sourdough". Because it's all one page, you can find anything almost instantly, just using your browser's page search.

Or you can skip the web browser altogether, and read my blog as it was meant to be read -- in Vim:

vim https://www.curiositry.com/blog.txt

This gives you the power of Regex search. Use responsibly.

[orf]

Ok so you can’t link to posts, rendering it useless as a blog. Got it.

Edit: to the person below who got way to offended by this, newspapers are indexed by page. You don’t say “perform a linear scan through all 50 pages until you find an article with X in the title”, you say “check out the article on page 12”. That’s a hyperlink.

[dang-guefever]

To the edit, you mean like, I don't know, referring to a unique date, key, and/or title? Yeah, that's simply impossible to do or manage in plaintext. Impossible.

I would direct you to Melvil Dewey, but I don't think you'd get the reference.

[detaro]

Which doesn't address the point.