miniblog.

I've been working on a search tool for a website with 9K items and a dumb implementation works just fine. I'd normally gravitate to a library or tool like elasticsearch (ES). Adding custom filters etc is trivial on handrolled code. I wonder what scale requires actual search infra like ES.

I've been experimenting with supporting the unified diff format in difftastic. This is a single column format ('inline') with @@ markers. What do you think? This format doesn't scale well to larger changes, but it's super familiar and works with other tools.

Blog comments work best when the author has a large following, and they actively engage their community. I don't think many blogs reach this scale. For a typical blog, it's probably better to have comments on link aggregators (Reddit etc) instead.