What’s this?

Short Answer: A big pile of nerdy information
Longer answer:

This is my personal never-ending VimWiki. In combination with Hugo, it is the vim-fanatic’s equivalent of a public Obsidian knowledge-base (converted to HTML). It’s named after a certain website known only by the helpless souls spending time over there digging through albums (of which I am severely guilty). I have intentionally disabled indexing (with regards to search engines) so that you are forced (more or less) to explore it naturally.

Disclaimer and Background

There are a lot of pages that are less than halfway done. If a page is unusually short or the content seems random, I have probably just noted some things during a class or on the run. This acts as a push on me personally to continuusly revise the wiki. I will not (from pages external to the wiki) link to any wiki-page that I do not consider acceptable myself. This wiki is intended to be a place where I can organize my thoughts, relate them to one another as I learn, and easily share them with others. As these are purely my own personal thoughts, don’t even think of citing me as a source or anything like that.

Am I Doing Armchair Philosophy?

I generally tend to loathe mere theoretical speculation (as it often doesn’t lead anywhere). However, if you know me personally, you probably know I spend a lot of time “speculating” theoretically. I tend to keep the theoretical inquiry I do voluntarily (not talking about school), directly related to a practical reality of mine. This is however not necessarily obvious (and might not necesssarily always be true either). But, in my experience, concrete practical questions often entail a lot more than what’s accessible on a mere surface level observation (which is why philosophy is even interesting).

Why bother making a wiki?

Short Answer: I couldn’t help myself… (think they’re calling it *tism nowadays)
Longer answer:

I dont’t want to be a specialist

When I discovered Wikipedia as a young kid, I was deeply fascinated. I have always tended to be more interested in understanding how fields inter-relate than specializing in one or a select few of them. Wikipedia did this. It connected the sciences to one another under a single whole (a hyperlinked website). But we have a problem. Unfortunately our collective knowledge is just too big nowadays. It’s no longer possible for a single individual to master all or most of the sciences. We are deprived of the possibility of becoming science sages, and that’s just boring… However, I still want to strive towards a broad understanding of the arts and sciences

But I have to specialize…

For me, my field of specialization ended up being computer science. Perhaps it’s not the greatest shocker (growing up nerding on the concept of hyperlinking and how the internet worked). On my spare time, I enjoy joining various fields into coherent wholes (or projects). My website is one of them.

And… also vimwiki helped taking notes as I started university ;)