Hi. 👋

After a few performance improvements, I did some loading time tests for #serci, between my home network (wifi) and a random VPN where the service is running.

echo "html,redirect" | tee timestamps.csv
for i in $(seq 1 1 100); do
    HTML=$(curl -o /dev/null -s -w '%{time_total}' https://search.jayvii.de)
    REDI=$(curl -o /dev/null -s -w '%{time_total}' https://search.jayvii.de?q=test)
    echo "$HTML,$REDI" | tee --append timestamps.csv
done

Across 100 runs for loading the site's HTML (generated from pure #PHP) versus a redirect to a chosen service (here the default #MetaGer), I can measure on average 0.28s for loading the frontend (HTML) and 0.13s for processing input and issuing the redirect.

I am quite happy with this relatively low overhead, although performance may decrease a little if more services are added (currently: 47). At some point maybe an #sqlite database may be more efficient than my pre-constructed #json files which are loaded on-demand.

New #serci updates:

• Adjusted Wikipedia Search URL
• Added more Services from around the wikimedia cosmos (wikidata, wikimedia-commons, wikinews, wikisource, wikiversity, wikivoyage)
• Added rotten tomatoes

Try it out at search.jayvii.de, contribute or self-host serĉi at https://src.jayvii.de/pub/serci/

Older posts about serĉi:

• https://social.jayvii.de/objects/tHRArkhwOLg
• https://social.jayvii.de/objects/Fm129h_hn_A

A question to #wikipedians: Is there a particular reason why different language pages on #wikipedia use different layouts? For example, German pages still use a lot older, non-adaptive page layout and does not have the new beta-option for dark mode, while the English pages typically use the latest design choices.

English / new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
German / old: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

This is particularly gnarling because the language switcher is in a completely different location in both designs: old/German: left sidebar; new/English: on top, next to the title

Started working on some tiny #ktistec end-user hacks: https://src.jayvii.de/pub/ktistec-tweaks

For now only a user #CSS theme i dupped "purple-ish": https://src.jayvii.de/pub/ktistec-tweaks/file/css/purpleish.css.html

Maybe more to come in the future. Or not, we'll see :)

Watching #BloodOfZeus makes me really want to replay #AgeOfMythology again...

Put #OpenSource code under the #AGPL license!

https://ploum.net/2024-07-01-opensource_sustainability.html

Nice read! I agree to every bit of it!

My keyword-based meta² search serĉi learned some new tricks and is a bit easier to use now!

Besides several categories you can browse to find keywords more easily, the backend has changed quite a bit as well! Both keyword-arrays and category-arrays are pre-generated from the configuration now. This makes it easy to configure but still maintain extremely high performance, and keep for-loop cycles low.

Everything in pure #PHP and without database, logging, cookies, etc. Give it a try and send me some feedback!