New prints inspired by medieval marginalia,
The gold ink on black came out better than expected.
REALLY like how all of them turned out, they were super fun!

#blockPrints #linoCut #alienBlockPrints #dragon #marginalia

« THOU SHALL NOT PASS ! », c. XIVth

Unknown artist
Brave knight protecting a damsel from a giant snail attack
Marginalia illumination from unknown book, probably XIVth century

#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #MedievalFantasy #GiantSnails #Marginalia #MedievalIllumination

« The Snails Attack », c. 1310

Unknown artist
Grotesque knight being attacked by two giant snails, from "The Queen Mary Psalter"
England, 1310-1320, Royal MS 2 B VII, f. 148r

#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #QueenMaryPsalter #MedievalFantasy #GiantSnails #Marginalia #MedievalIllumination

A new version of my LuaLaTeX package ‘marginalia’ is now available on CTAN. [https://ctan.org/pkg/marginalia]

This package allows the placement of marginal notes (or other marginal content) anywhere, without \marginpar’s limits, and automatically adjusts positions to prevent either overlaps or content being pushed off the page, and uses key–value settings that allow fine-grained customization.

There is an #OpenAccess introduction to ‘marginalia’ in ‘TUGboat: Communications of the TeX Users Group’: https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb46-1/tb142cain-marginalia.pdf

The main change in this new version is that defaults for the size and position of the notes are set according to the page geometry at \begin{document}, unless the user has already changed them. (Credit for this idea is due to Julien Labbé.) There are also minor fixes to the documentation.

#TeXLaTeX #typography #marginalia

Back to exploring the small/indie web, this time around I'm trying my luck at contacting the small web... over email!

https://bojidar-bg.dev/blog/2025-10-03-small-web-contact/

Read for a 3.4K summary of my experience with a number of small-web websites, all in pursuit of one simple question:
- Do people like it when you contact them about stuff they wrote earlier? 😅

#100DaysToOffload #SmallWeb #indieweb #Marginalia #powRSS #email #linkblogging

Writing in Your Books Is Good for Your Brain—Here’s Why

Annotating the margins of books is an important part of deep reading and has a long legacy of merit in both science and literature

By Brianne Kane edited by Jeanna Bryner, September 19, 2024

Excerpt: "Readers on TikTok and Instagram are making the aesthetics of reading more visible than ever with creative, and often intricate, annotations. Called marginalia, these markups can be elaborate, with notes that nearly fill full pages and that are color-coordinated with the book’s cover. The emergence of such bookish note-taking has sparked a debate between enthusiasts and skeptics: Is the practice of marginalia a bad habit or a beneficial endeavor?

"#Marginalia have a long history: #LeonardoDaVinci famously scribbled thoughts about gravity years before Galileo Galilei published his magnum opus on the subject; the discovery was waiting under our noses in the margins of Leonardo’s Codex Arundel. Famous writers such as #HermanMelville and #EdgarAllanPoe are somewhat known for their marginalia, making their biographers both overjoyed and overwhelmed. Just last year #AnnPatchett, a staple on any modern fiction shelves, told Literary Hub about the joys of reading her own books and annotating patterns she never before noticed. She created a unique edition of Tom Lake for dedicated deep readers, in which she included her own annotations on her own writing style. The Patchett-ception worked: the special edition raised money at an auction for indie bookstores during 2020, and the endeavor inspired the writer to annotate a copy of her beloved classic Bel Canto as well.

"Alongside this evolution of margin additions, neuroscientists have been researching the cognitive effects of writing, pencil to paper. For instance, a study of electrical activity in the brain published in Frontiers in Psychology found that handwriting itself helps a person remember and understand more about they’ve read and written. Maryanne Wolf, director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners and Social Justice at the University of California, Los Angeles, discussed the importance of annotating with NPR in 2022. In classic former-English-major fashion, she paraphrased Marcel Proust in explaining that deep reading allows us to 'go beyond the wisdom of the author to discover our own.' In that vein, marginalia can help the annotator understand the material deeply enough to further develop their own interpretation of the text, she said. In the Journal of Language Learning and Teaching, foreign language professor Demet Yayli of Pamukkale University in Turkey, explained that in writing workshops, especially for genre-fiction writing, deep reading—which includes annotations—is critical in helping students articulate their interpretations and maintain their own 'learner autonomy.' "

Read more:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/go-ahead-write-in-the-margins-its-good-for-your-brain/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/Bts8M

#LearnerAutonomy #ReadABook #UseYourBrain #AISucks #BrainHealth #UseAIWithCaution #AIIsDumbingUsDown #Bookstodon #Books

One of the joys of owning a good book - the ability to endow it with your own permanent marginalia. #books #marginalia

One of the best things you can do while reading is to interact with your book, especially annotating in the margins to jot down ideas and mark up interesting parts of what you just read.

#Reading #Annotating #Marginalia #Books
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/go-ahead-write-in-the-margins-its-good-for-your-brain/

Marginalia Search Engine - Marginalia Search

https://marginalia-search.com/

Marginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.

#www #web #browser #internet #marginalia #search #WebSite #OpenSource #sweden #ViktorLofgren #html #diy

@fabio

I have read your post:

https://blog.fabiomanganiello.com/article/in-search-of-a-new-search

I have fallen in love with #Marginalia:

https://marginalia-search.com

It can't replace Google. But I can find some stuff with it which I can almost never find them using Google or Bing.

You can try Marginalia and write a blog post about it. I'm gonna write an article in me own blog too :)

During a parents' orientation meeting. Thinking about my kid's future, and also how to play a C# diminished chord on a piano.

#Photography #OriginalPhoto #Sketches #Sketching #Marginalia #Doodle #Doodles #Parenting #HalfHeartedFanatic

Running the London Marathon in memory of Winnie

On 26 April 2026, I plan to be on the start line of the London Marathon. I’m in my fifties, I’ve only been running for a few years, and this will be my first marathon. I’m doing it to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT).

Cancer is brutal for anyone. For teenagers and young adults, it can be isolating in a particular way: while fr

https://timharford.com/2025/09/running-the-london-marathon-in-memory-of-winnie/

#Marginalia

Announcing The Cautionary Club

Do you want more Cautionary Tales episodes in your life? Do you want behind the scenes stories and bonus conversations with me? Or do you want to support us in making the show? 

On behalf of the whole team, I'm excited to announce the brand new Cautionary Club on Patreon. Subscribers will gain access to exclusive content every month, including a behind-the-

https://timharford.com/2025/09/announcing-the-cautionary-club/

#CautionaryTales #Marginalia

@jamescooke

I don't think that I've heard of marginalia-search.com before (or, if I did, it slipped away from me). You're example use case got me to poke at the site a bit.

It looks promising. I'm definitely going to try and test drive it for a few days. Thanks!

#SearchEngine #marginalia

As a result of this toot: https://mastodon.social/@mre/114981714502444426 < in which @mre struggled to find code review resources - I went looking on #marginalia ...

Here's their search results for "code review" with "Small Web" turned on: https://marginalia-search.com/search?query=code+review&profile=modern&newfilter=true

... and I think the results are great - including...

"Code review from the Command Line" (https://blog.jez.io/cli-code-review/), which is the top result and has some great tools / suggestions for being "in the change" and seeing how it fits with the code base 😊 .

Ещё из последних новостей, я заменил company-mode на corfu + cape, добавил vertico и marginalia для минибуффера. Так же добавил swiper для стильного поиска на замену i-search и magit чтобы использовать git как про!

#company-mode #corfu #cape #vertico #marginalia #swiper #magit #git #emacs

@Denvitadrogen https://marginalia-search.com/ verkar lovande men har inte indexerat så mycket än ..

#marginalia

Veckans Kodsnack är här: @marginalia berättar om Marginalia search - sökmotorn Viktor bygger på heltid och som i praktiken ensam utvecklare.
Lyssna på https://kodsnack.se/653/, eller överallt där poddar finns!
#podcast #marginalia #searchEnginge #softwareEngineering

One good feature #Marginalia has is that it tells you before hand about "anti features" of a website.

Like in the attached screenshot, this website has got Tracking, Javascript and Ads.

It also has features to remove results which have got ads or Javascript. These features come very handy in the "modern" world wide web.

I really appreciate the developer's efforts. I hope #FOSS #SearchEngines could one day excel. And I hope support for languages other than English will be added soon enough.

Here's the thing: https://marginalia-search.com/

#web #indieweb #opensource #privacy #web #modernweb #searchengine