Viktor Löfgren — Search Engines, Physics, Marginalia, Hypertext, Upbringings, Career, Faith

11/26/24 • 72 min

Viktor is a Swedish software engineer and hypertext enjoyer, working full time on an open source internet search engine called Marginalia from scratch. Viktor is a physicist by education who also built different kinds of simulation softwares. He even built a rare trinary state computer including the emulator for the processor, and IDE for his custom programming language and a compiler for it. Later on he got into building and hosting his own search engine that lets you discover interesting web pages that Google and other search engines don't show. He self hosts hundreds of terabytes of web page indexes. He even created his own distraction free encyclopedia from scratch. In this conversation we talk about Viktor's upbringings, education, programming journey, search engines, Marginalia, encyclopedia, open source, spam, AI, faith, hobbies and so much more. Enjoy!

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