change notes 2024-02-12
Changing notes to change notes (in the filenames) and adding notes as a distinct category, removing 'notes' from the permalinks.
Change Notes
Site updates and changes, sorted by date.
change notes 2024-02-07
Fixed: I had failed to test the table of contents at the top of my /diss pages after changing my URL scheme and my automatic redirections are not working so the links went to 404 pages. All these p....
change notes 2024-02-05
Changing my Twitter bio:.
change notes 2024-01-29
Fixed CSS for the search-box so that the left-bracket doesn't shrink in mobile.
change notes 2024-01-24
Removed dynamic results from Lunr.js and now serving them with FlexSearch. The results page which opens after a search is submitted (rather than clicking a link from the dynamic as-you-type search) is...
change notes 2023-12-14
similar pages is broken. some tag pages are broken and search for tags with spaces is broken. serp.js is still heavier than it needs to be, I can shift a bit of code out t....
change notes 2023-12-13
Found and fixed BUG in Lunrish implementation: searchLunrish appears to fail if searches are made outside of the /search context (e.g. landing page or page/post page) #1.
change notes 2023-12-12
Reduced the size of serp.js by deduplicating data fetched for the snippets. Add a tiny bit of JS to dynamically change the title of the search results ba....
change notes 2023-12-11
I've now shipped my Lunrish API live on the website.
change notes 2023-12-07
Added bib_handles to my search index so you can now search with bib handles l.... Added a website-last-updated-timestamp to footers across the website. This is....
change notes 2023-11-16
Updated xtracty (my userscript to extract tweet/post data from Twitter/X to YAML for easy handling) and my weblinks.html in my Jekyll _includes/ to support directly including images in weblinks fro....
change notes 2023-11-15
changes tag social search request to social-search-request: /tags/social-sear.... added liquid to pull in snippets (if they exist) for the tags into the tag pages.
change notes 2023-10-28
Generated snippets now updated for the new link structure (removing extensions and ending in forward slash; see initial implementation notes in 'changes 2023-10-27'). The snippets properly appear i....
change notes 2023-10-27
Search was down (or only working for external sites) for several hours today. I was implementing a change in the link structure. I now know a lot more about what I don't know (in particular: visibi....
change notes 2023-10-16
Late in updating many changes. Added a note in search/About re the FlexSearch working example. Rebranded CSUIRx to SearchRights.org.
change notes 2023-09-14
Updates to /projects/csuirx, etc.
change notes 2023-08-09
Removed 'about' from Lunr.js stopwords (in my local js/search/results.js, the web versions under js/vendor and the node_modules). This modification approach is unlikely to be best practice.
change notes 2023-08-04
Added a !bang: [.
change notes 2023-08-02
Added support for hints to jump to search below the search bar. The hints sho.... Added the first external-results: [.
change notes 2023-08-01
Added pagination in the SERP. Added supported for searching [backlinks:]. Added support for category searches, like [category:changes] or [cat:tweets].
change notes 2023-07-31
To update my mentions of "A good search engine advises its users, helping the.... Added backlinks, visible in the hamburger list dropdown menu ( ) on the top l....
change notes 2023-07-28
Transitioned CGT.updating tag to just CGT. Used grep to help me (grep -ril "cgt\.updating" _posts | xargs subl), and Perplexity AI to help me with grep.
change notes 2023-07-24
Added session storage to search bar (in js/search/suggestions and js/search/a.... Added hotkeys. Added [similar:] search functionality.
change notes 2023-07-17
Fixed the rendering of tags in dynamic search suggestions to decode the '.
change notes 2023-07-14
Added similarity: search, see search/About#similarity.
change notes 2023-07-13
Added sort-by-date functionality in search results with flexible operators.
change notes 2023-07-12
Added 'status' functionality in _layouts/post.html and _includes/page_header..... Added scripts and data structures while exploring an OpenAI cookbook, as desc....
change notes 2023-07-10
Changes to dynamic results (via Lunr.js).
change notes 2023-07-07
Added treemaps in Browse and Browse > Pages with D3.js. Streamlined display and content on Search pages.
change notes 2023-07-06
Added mouseover and keyboard interactions to autocomplete suggestions-list an.... Changes to dynamic-nav:. Fixed encoding issues for tags in search results.
change notes 2023-07-05
Modified screen-to-cards.py to add id (now card headings should be supported .... Blocked reorder_footnotes_bibliography.py from running on the Shared weblinks....
change notes 2023-06-30
Added formatting for search-query-block, see in TIL git alias (weblog). Added practice of Twitter SVG to use superscripts to link to tweets containin....
change notes 2023-06-29
Increased the padding for the top container divs to improve the mobile experi.... Learned how to implement Boostrap tooltips.
change notes 2023-06-28
Learned how to add a carousel lightbox modal in Bootstrap. The interplay with.... Renamed Sitemap to Browse. Some light Lighthouse auditing led to some significant refactoring:.
change notes 2023-06-27
removed authorship and location data from page_header. added Shared weblinks category page, template, and utility script.
change notes 2023-06-26
Made the search bar the main focus on the landing page and in a revised header.s. Added search functionality built around Lunr.js.
change notes 2023-06-05
Added a search/transparency page to share briefly re 'How does search work on.... Added a summary to my diss/ page. Added two posts:.
change notes 2023-06-03
Various formatting repairs for the HTML rendering of chapters in /diss. Removed malfunctioning JavaScript to just use an #end anchor in the footer to....
change notes 2023-06-02
Adapted my dissertation to HTML, splitting into chapters, and loaded to /diss.
change notes 2023-05-31
Fixed a bug in the circleborder link in left-sidebar that created a phantom r.... Removed some solid background colors to move towards a more line-based design.
change notes 2023-05-26
Fixed a bug in understanding change in web search that caused some of the text to overflow the page: an extra .
change notes 2023-05-25
Added a page on Courses. Uploaded my latest CV. Added special-box back-to to pages under courses, publications, and posts.
change notes 2023-05-24
Added top-level link in left-sidebar to "Repairing Searching", to follow a ta.... Added three posts:. Added tags for posts, so far only: repairing-searching.
change notes 2023-05-22
Formatting updates to improve performance on mobile (largely shifting some wi.... Added a update_changes_link.py script to automatically updated the changes li....
change notes 2023-05-19
Updated my special-box note (at the top of my homepage) about actively seekin.... Various formatting updates (distributed links from footer to left-sidebar and....
change notes 2023-01-06
Added publication: griffin2022situating. Added publication to Updates!. Added a shortcut page: griffin2022search.
change notes 2022-11-25
Added publication: griffin2022search. Added publication to Updates!. Added a shortcut page: griffin2022search.
change notes 2022-11-11
Edited a post: Added line from Sundin & Carlsson (2016) to search automation bias (SAB).
change notes 2022-11-10
Added a post: search automation bias (SAB). Edited a post: "I wish there was a way to turn off snippets." => Added The Ma....
change notes 2022-11-06
Added a post: Looking at harmful & empowering uses of Twitter Search (prospectus).
change notes 2022-11-05
Added a post: Searching Mastodon?.
change notes 2022-11-04
Added to goldenfein2022platforming: commentary section.
change notes 2022-11-03
Edited a post: Regina Bateson is not a politician, Google => At 5:27pm PT on 2022-11-02, Dr. Bateson tweeted: Omg, it’s officially gone!! Google no longer says I’m a politician!!!.
change notes 2022-11-02
Added a tagline to /posts: Trying to be—just a tiny bit—publicly vulnerable a.... Added a post: fear of Google abandoning Google Scholar.
change notes 2022-11-01
Added a post: Regina Bateson is not a politician, Google.
change notes 2022-10-30
Added a post: "I wish there was a way to turn off snippets.".
change notes 2022-10-27
Added /scholar_profiles page (linked in Footer). Added to goldenfein2022platforming. Added Mastodon to contact div in Footer.