Chish

Fixing Sphinx's Hyphen-Eating Search

Unknown — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

So Sphinx's search was doing this annoying thing where searching for -v</code> or --force</code> just... returned nothing. Even in docs that literally have those exact flags written out.

###</a>The Mystery: Python Indexer vs JavaScript Search</h3>
My first instinct was to go poke the JS search code since, well, that's
what actually runs the query right. But that's only treating the symptom
lol, by the time a query even reaches the JS side, the index has ALREADY
lost the hyphens. Turns out the Python indexer was stripping leading
hyphens before terms even got stored. So -v</code> was being indexed as just
v</code>, and no amount of JS fixing was ever gonna find that.</p>
###</a>Flags vs Compound Words</h3>
Real fix had to happen on the Python side, regex change. The annoying part
was telling apart something like -v</code> (a flag, keep the hyphen) from the
hyphen inside extra-curricular</code> (a compound word, don't treat it special).
Those two cases look kinda similar but need totally different handling...</p>
This is what led me to negative lookbehind</strong>, which I'd genuinely never used
before. (?<!pattern)</code> basically checks "hey is this pattern NOT sitting
right before me" without actually consuming any characters. Zero width
check, so it doesn't eat part of what you're trying to match.</p>
###</a>The Regex Fix</h3>
Ended up with this:</p>
(</span>?<!</span>\w</span>)</span>-</span>{1,2}</span>\w</span>[</span>\w-</span>]</span>*|</span>\w</span>+</span></span></code></pre>
Reading it out... match one or two hyphens followed by a word character
(and then whatever word/hyphen stuff after), BUT only if there's not
already a word character sitting right before those hyphens. That's what
kicks out the extra-curricular</code> case while still letting -v</code> and
--force</code> through clean. The |\w+</code> at the end is just... normal word
matching for everything that isn't hyphen-flag-shaped.</p>
PR's up against Sphinx now. Fingers crossed for review lol.</p>

Devlog 01: Shared Types First Unknown — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Okay so, first real day on the Hackatime TUI. 3 person team, Bubbletea for the TUI part, one guy on backend wiring, one guy on widgets, and me doing dashboard/nav stuff. ###</a>Unblocking the Team First</h3> First thing I did was just... define the shared types. Dashboard, Filters, the whole shape of the panel data. Didn't touch any actual logic before this, cuz both backend guy and widget guy are kinda stuck until they know what the data even looks like. Felt like the responsible thing to do lmao, be the guy who unblocks everyone instead of just diving into my own corner. ###</a>The Fixed Header & Wireframe Slots</h3> After that I built out the fixed header, renders username, streak, the whole filter row (Date Range / Project / Language / OS / Editor / Category)... I basically just referenced the real Hackatime dashboard for this. It looks right now, which is nice, but it doesn't DO anything yet lol. Next up is making it actually usable, dropdowns opening/closing, moving the cursor around, filters actually triggering a refetch. Also threw together the card and panel grid, just wireframes with empty slots for now (Project Durations, Languages, Timeline, etc) so widget guy has something concrete to build into whenever he starts. Getting started is always the hardest part for me, every single time. But once the first commit was up everything just kinda... flowed after that. ###</a>The Planned Layout</h3> This is our planned layout for the dashboard: ┌──────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ [●] Chish 🇮🇳 │ Keep Track of Your Coding Time │ │ [🔥 3 day streak]│ Today: 43m 27s logged (Python, JS, Rust, etc.) using Neovim & VSCode │ │ ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ > [Home] │ [Date: All Time ▾] [Project: All ▾] [Lang: All ▾] [OS: All ▾] [Editor: All ▾] │ │ Projects ├──────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────────────┤ │ Settings │ TOTAL TIME │ TOP PROJECT │ TOP LANGUAGE │ TOP OS │ TOP EDITOR │ │ │ 520h 34m │ kasumi │ Rust │ Linux │ VSCode │ │ └──────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────────────┤ │ │ │ ┌─ Project Durations ────────────────────────────┐ ┌─ Languages ──────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ kasumi ██████████████████ 31h 28m │ │ Rust ████████████░░░░░░░░░ 38% │ │ │ │ skora-backend ██████████████████ 31h 27m │ │ Python ████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 22% │ │ │ │ stacksense █████████████░░░░░ 22h 25m │ │ Svelte ████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 12% │ │ │ │ the-verse-... ██████████░░░░░░░░ 19h 54m │ │ C / Go ███░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 8% │ │ │ │ desktop-editor ████████░░░░░░░░░░ 16h 44m │ │ Other ██████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 20% │ │ │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ └──────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ │ │ │ ┌─ Editors ──────────────────────────────────────┐ ┌─ Operating Systems ──────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ VSCode ██████████████████ 48% │ │ Linux ████████████████████ 100% │ │ │ │ Neovim ██████████░░░░░░░░ 28% │ │ │ │ │ │ Zed / CLion ████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 14% │ │ │ │ │ │ Godot / Other ███░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 10% │ │ │ │ │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ └──────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ │ │ │ ┌─ Project Timeline (Stacked Weekly Activity) ────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ 22h ┤ █ │ │ │ │ 16h ┤ █ │ │ │ │ 11h ┤ █ █ █ │ │ │ │ 5h ┤ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ │ │ │ │ 0h ┴──┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴────┴─────────── │ │ │ │ Jun15 Jun22 Jun29 Jul6 Jul13 Jul20 Jul27 Aug3 Aug10 Aug17 Aug24 Aug31 │ │ │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ │ │ │ ┌─ Coding Rhythm (Activity Heatmap) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ 12AM 3AM 6AM 9AM 12PM 3PM 6PM 9PM │ │ │ │ Mon [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][■][■][■][■] │ │ │ │ Tue [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][■][■][■] │ │ │ │ Wed [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][■][■][■][■][■][■][■][■] │ │ │ │ Thu [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][■][■][■] │ │ │ │ Fri [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][■][■][■][■][■][■][■][■] │ │ │ │ Sat [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][■][■][■][■][■][■][■][■][■][■] │ │ │ │ Sun [■][■][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][■][■][■][■][■][■] │ │ │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ │ │ │ ┌─ Today's Goal ─────────────────────────────────┐ ┌─ AI vs Human Coding ─────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ ╭─────────╮ │ │ [AI 7%] [Human Coding 93%] │ │ │ │ │ 73% │ │ │ ███░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │ │ │ │ ╰─────────╯ │ │ │ │ │ │ 27% below usual | Today: 43m / Usual: 59m │ │ AI: 32h 15m (7%) | Human: 450h 58m (93%) │ │ │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ └──────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘</code></pre>###</a>Current Progress</h3> Here is how the wireframe looks right now in the terminal: Diving into C++ as a Rust Developer Unknown — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 I recently decided to learn C++ alongside my Rust knowledge. My initial impression is that modern C++ (C++20/C++23) is much cleaner than the old legacy tutorials make it out to be. ###</a>What is interesting so far:</h3> References and Pointers: In Rust, the compiler forces me to think about lifetimes constantly. In C++, I have to enforce those exact same rules in my head.</li> RAII: Resource Acquisition Is Initialization is basically how C++ handles cleaning up memory when variables go out of scope, which maps directly to Rust's Drop</code> trait.</li> </ul> I will be posting my progress here as I read Bjarne Stroustrup's A Tour of C++ and work on my custom heap allocator. let code: i32 = 64;</code></pre>