[HN Gopher] Show HN: I converted my notebook into a searchable d...
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       Show HN: I converted my notebook into a searchable database of IT
       keywords
        
       Author : jurajstefanic
       Score  : 52 points
       Date   : 2025-03-18 13:04 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (techbook.digital)
 (TXT) w3m dump (techbook.digital)
        
       | hereaiham wrote:
       | neat
        
       | kagevf wrote:
       | Maybe consider adding a highlight to the search term in the
       | (filtered) text.
        
         | jurajstefanic wrote:
         | Great idea! Adding it now.
        
       | perdomon wrote:
       | Love the neo-brutalism look. What do you think about crowd-
       | sourcing the glossary or creating a submission form for new
       | terms?
        
         | jurajstefanic wrote:
         | Thanks! Added a submission form for the new words and
         | definitions (also in the neo-brutalism style).
         | 
         | As for crowd-sourcing the glossary, that is also planned. I
         | just need to structure the existing entries first, and it's
         | good to go! It will be published as part of the GitHub
         | repository.
        
       | tro2102 wrote:
       | Cool!
       | 
       | nit: you've got a casing mismatch between Devops and DevOps
        
         | jurajstefanic wrote:
         | Nice catch. Fixed!
        
       | card_zero wrote:
       | * Successfully looked up RLHF (reinforcement learning from human
       | feedback)
       | 
       | * Failed when looking up NIH (not invented here)
       | 
       | Hmm. Would you mind devoting the rest of your life to making this
       | dictionary comprehensive, and keeping it updated?
       | 
       | Slightly smaller request: could you make it possible to select
       | and copy the definitions?
        
         | wizzwizz4 wrote:
         | :root body { user-select: auto; }
         | 
         | Slap this in a userstyle, and it'll override lines 545-546 of
         | the stylesheet, restoring the expected behaviour.
        
         | jurajstefanic wrote:
         | I'll do my best to keep it updated regularly! I've added the
         | copy functionality now to each definition entry - no need for
         | that extra step of selecting!
        
           | card_zero wrote:
           | Well, I didn't want to copy the whole thing, I wanted to
           | select and copy it myself, as is standard and expected. I
           | don't want a handy search button that sends me to google,
           | either, since I don't use google. If you keep on helping me
           | to do things I didn't want to, I'll have a user experience.
        
             | jurajstefanic wrote:
             | Thanks for the feedback, this makes a lot of sense. I
             | modified it accordingly.
        
               | card_zero wrote:
               | Good job! What you could do is have a whole bunch of
               | different lookup links, behind words instead of buttons,
               | so it isn't mystery meat navigation. Like how Onelook has
               | "Google, News, Images, Wikipedia, Reddit, BlueSky".
               | 
               | https://onelook.com/?w=mystery+meat+navigation&loc=rel_ph
               | ras...
        
       | atmanactive wrote:
       | This is great. Thanks for this.
       | 
       | The only thing I'm missing is the automatic dark mode (respecting
       | operating system's dark/light theme). If you want I could add
       | that in a pull request.
        
         | jurajstefanic wrote:
         | Thanks! Great suggestion. Feel free to open a pull request and
         | add it.
        
       | LoganDark wrote:
       | Doesn't seem to have "RTFM" (Read The Fucking/Friendly Manual)
        
         | redeux wrote:
         | That was the first thing I searched for too
        
           | jurajstefanic wrote:
           | Refresh and it's there!
        
       | staplung wrote:
       | Great work. Love the austere style.
       | 
       | Nit: don't think you need to prefix "database" with "searchable".
       | If it's a DB, searchability is implied.
        
       | call wrote:
       | "o'reilly"
        
       | Jotalea wrote:
       | The first three words that got into my mind (kernel, Linux,
       | operating system) were not here. I guess this is for another
       | sector of IT?
        
       | mindwork wrote:
       | I couldn't find anything that I put there: DRY, RBAC,
       | Duck(-typing), Liskov, b-tree
        
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