There comes a time in every woman’s life when she only wants one thing: for her mininmal static site to finally have some of the same features that dynamic blogging platforms do, namely search.So now I’ve implemented search on this blog, you should see it in the top right and the results render in-line in the drop-down.I’m going to tweak the results because the boosting is not quite where I’d like it to be yet, but try it out!Some implmenetation details:My blog runs on Hugo, so I looked for solutions that work with Jekyll/Hugo. I picked very fun and lightweight lunr.js, which is a single file that implements BM-25 search based on Solr primitives (it’s called Lunr because it’s smaller and “less bright” than Solr, which I love.)To create the index that Lunr uses for search, I had Claude write a quick Python script that traverses my post directories and outputs a single JSON file of all indexes posts.The entries look like this:{
"id": "2018/07/23/good-small-datasets/",
"title": "Good small datasets",
"ref": "2018/07/23/good-small-datasets/",
"content": "John Lavery, The Chess Players (1929) I've been working on a project that, like most projects, requires testing with a dataset. My personal criteria are: + Relatively small size (Less than 100 KB, or 100ish rows) + At least 5-6 features (columns) + Should have both numerical and text-based features + Ideally a range of different kinds of numbers + Has good documentation + Is open and available to the public + Relatively available for both R and as individual CSV files or Python imports (APIs and",
