Re:Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit a...
by taude on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:01PM
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Yeup, as I mentioned, it kind of feels like a Yak-shave....but it was fun building it, and gave me some experience with agentic coding and new technologies I don't normally work with. It's nice to dig into for some research.
The biggest win was the realization that both firefox and chrome maintain all the links you visit in a very queryable SQLite database. I've been poking at that for a lot of custom tools, like WHAT JIRA tickets am I paying attention to this week, etc....
As far as the need for private search, well, I've already searched for or visited those pages, so...