Show HN: I converted my notebook into a searchable database of IT keywords

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by jurajstefanic • 1 year ago

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hereaiham• 1 year ago

neat

kagevf• 1 year ago

Maybe consider adding a highlight to the search term in the (filtered) text.

jurajstefanic8• 1 year ago

Great idea! Adding it now.

perdomon• 1 year ago

Love the neo-brutalism look. What do you think about crowd-sourcing the glossary or creating a submission form for new terms?

jurajstefanic8• 1 year ago

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• 1 year ago

Cool!

nit: you've got a casing mismatch between Devops and DevOps

jurajstefanic8• 1 year ago

Nice catch. Fixed!

card_zero3• 1 year ago

* 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• 1 year ago

  :root body { user-select: auto; }

Slap this in a userstyle, and it'll override lines 545–546 of the stylesheet, restoring the expected behaviour.

jurajstefanic8• 1 year ago

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_zero3• 1 year ago

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.

GauntletWizard• 1 year ago

You may want to wholesale import The Jargon File. Badly out of date at this point, but surprisingly relevant and of more than moderate value as a historical reference.

atmanactive2• 1 year ago

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.

jurajstefanic8• 1 year ago

Thanks! Great suggestion. Feel free to open a pull request and add it.

atmanactive2• 1 year ago

I did. Seven days ago. No response from you.

LoganDark• 1 year ago

Doesn't seem to have "RTFM" (Read The Fucking/Friendly Manual)

redeux• 1 year ago

That was the first thing I searched for too

jurajstefanic8• 1 year ago

Refresh and it's there!

staplung• 1 year ago

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• 1 year ago

"o'reilly"

Jotalea• 1 year ago

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• 1 year ago

I couldn't find anything that I put there: DRY, RBAC, Duck(-typing), Liskov, b-tree

jurajstefanic8• 1 year ago

Added! If you happen to think of any more, you can use the contribution form to submit them.

smusamashah• 1 year ago

Are those definitions LLM generated?

Izuchukwu-Eric• 1 year ago

Great work! I will be needing this

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