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Mostly about the parts of a search engine that are boring from the outside: what the index leaves out, why ranking changed, and where a network request would have been convenient and was not made.

  1. Quarry 1.4: saved searches with live counts

    Quarry 1.4 adds live counts to saved searches and speeds up snippet extraction across the board.

  2. How the index stays small

    A look at the postings file and the snippet store, and why a Quarry index runs about 4% of the size of what it indexes.

  3. Searching ten years of notes

    A guide to setting up one Quarry index over an old notes archive: what to exclude, and which queries actually pay off.

  4. One network request

    What Quarry sends over the network: a single update check, and nothing else.

  5. A tour of the editor plugins

    What the VS Code and Neovim plugins do, what they deliberately leave out, and how they talk to Quarry.