Fixing Hugo's Search: fuzzysearch Was Never a Real Setting

The symptom Added client-side search to this site using PaperMod’s built-in feature. Worked immediately, which should have been my first clue something was off, because it worked badly. Searching “kyber,” the full, exact word, appearing in exactly one post, returned close to a dozen completely unrelated results. Searching just “ky” returned the one correct result and nothing else. Backwards from how search should behave, more specific input giving worse results than less specific input. ...

July 20, 2026 · 4 min