Blogs Rot. Wikis Wait

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TiddlyWiki

Tiddlywiki https://tiddlywiki.com/ is good at cross-linking notes and publishing to the web. Consider writing plain HTML and calling it a digital garden, so you aren't locked into the chronological feed blog mindset. Maybe Obsidian Publish? https://obsidian.md/publish#:~:text=Explore%20Publish%20sites%20by%20the%20Obsidian%20community.

#Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Personal Knowledge Base 196 social mentions

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Indie Wiki Buddy

#Productivity #Project Management #Time Tracking 14 social mentions

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Quartz

#Productivity #Writing Tools #Programming Language 13 social mentions

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VitePress

Obligatory meme: https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/ I'm personally in the top left corner and bottom right corner at the same time, which is sort of funny. I have used WordPress since 2004-2005, and I've also written a Python static site generator before using Flask + Frozen-Flask[1]. I've also made stops through tools like Sphinx, Hugo, Gatsby, and VitePress[2]. But my personal site continues to run WordPress[3]. I think I'd prefer something like VitePress these days for a technical documentation site. It has a lot going for it for that use case. And it feels built to last. On true wikis that one can self-host, I recently learned that MediaWiki with a reasonable theme like Citizen[4] is a nice choice for an open source powered private wiki. Although I do find the Mediawiki markup language a little cumbersome versus simpler markup languages like reST or Markdown/MyST in the Python community (or GitHub-Flavored Markdown or Asciidoc supported elsewhere). But Mediawiki has a lot of nice features -- after all, Mediawiki powers Wikipedia. The theme makes it work properly on mobile, adds a little more structure, and makes content editing a bit simpler. It still isn't nearly as polished as commercial wiki-like software (e.g. Notion) but it's better than open source wikis used to be. On the subject of the blog post, I think bit-rot or info-rot is the natural order of things. The kind of software you run isn't going to change those facts. And if you're curating knowledge about technical computing subjects that isn't about C and Linux system calls, you should expect exponential decay. I do find it kind of amusing how many tools and frameworks developers have created for making it easier to edit HTML pages, though. Truly a foundational 21st century problem that deserves a technical solution that can last for decades without itself bit-rotting. [1]: https://frozen-flask.readthedocs.io/ [2]: https://vitepress.dev/ [3]: https://amontalenti.com [4]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Citizen.

#Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Knowledge Base 8 social mentions