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What is this Wiki?

Sometimes, I vaguely remember something I read but I couldn't find the link to it. Sometimes, I want to get started learning something but don't know where to start. And sometimes I want to force myself to take notes of what I learned and accumulate them.

This is my personal wiki to record the resources and links that I think will be helpful to me in the future. This wiki is inspired by https://wiki.nikiv.dev/ (sadly most of the resources are behind a paywall now).

The idea is to have a place to keep the links to what I think is interesting, and hopefully, these links are helpful to my future self and others. I hope the guides that help me get started on a topic would be helpful to others as well. For the topics that I have more experience in, I might slowly backfill the resources I found useful.

How is each page organized?

Honestly, I don't know how to divide human vast knowledge into categories. I tried to keep each page focused. A page will be split into multiple pages if there are too many links. But you will see some pages contain way more than others. The goal is to keep the wiki easy to navigate. Each link has some notes and comments to aid my future self (and possibly you) to understand it.

I try to split each page into three main categories:

  • Resources: Link to a beginner-friendly guide for the topic
  • Sites: Link to a hub where it contains relevant information for the topic
  • Links: Link to any pages/videos/articles/news/posts that I think are related to the topic

I might also add some notes on top to write down the initial "hook" that got me interested in the topic. Often times it's a simple picture, a YouTube video, an article, or just a concept that got me interested.

I also save the links I put here to the Internet Archive. So if you find a link is broken, try searching for it in the Internet Archive.

Something to bare in mind when reading

  • Not all sources/blogs/articles are credible or unbiased, anyone can publish anything on the Internet
  • Everyone has their own unique experiences and opinions, take everything with a grain of salt
  • No one can judge others' decisions because no one has the full context of each other's situation
  • Especially reading reviews and discussion forums, who is the author and why should I care about their opinion?

Where to start?

Find a topic on the sidebar that interests you, probably a topic you know or a topic that you are recently paying attention to. If you have no idea where to start, I suggest checking out these pages and their children pages:

  • Learning page: I believe learning how to learn is the most important skill to have
  • Growth page: Seeking growth, improving one's cognitive capability
  • Computers page: This page contains the largest tree in this wiki, simply because that's my interest

If you want some random links, random rabbit holes:

  • Interesting page: things I don't know how to categorize, but I find them interesting
  • Write-ups page: people write down what they figured out and the journey along the way
  • Astronomy page: space is interesting
  • Sleep page: sleep is important