Why Make This?
A large amount of my time is spent teaching others, but there has been a failure to archive that shared knowledge in a publicly accessible format. This often results in reiterating the same information to different people, and sometimes even the same people.
The primary objective is to create a platform that provides the same thoroughness of information as manual intervention in a personalised session (for most scenarios).
Other Motives
- It's also a learning project for myself; there are gaps in my own knowledge, and web design was one of them
- My consumption to contribution ratio of the free and open source software ecosystem is very imbalanced
- The current era of video based educational models has its benefits, but can also be very inefficient. Video media consumes significant storage and bandwidth resources, which can be compounded by uninformative engagement or sponsorship segments, and is typically hosted on platforms that have no respect for their userbase (including but not limited to being endlessly eager to collect and sell user data)
- This website is sort of a participant in the 3-2-1 backup system, as most of its material is organised in some manner locally and backed up to cloud storage, with this being the 3rd medium
What About Search Engines?
With the availability of the modern Internet, anyone really can learn anything. However -
- A considerable number of people lack the initiative to just look things up themselves
- Current SEO algorithms in most search engines prioritise bad results
- A good result may have paywalled information
- Information not paywalled is often subsidised by ads and telemetry
Regardless, this website should not be anyone's singular source of information on the material it contains. An uncountable number of individuals are providing free knowledge about so many subjects, and that collective knowledge is far more valuable than what is provided here alone.
This is simply my own repository of knowledge.