Why Make This?

A large amount of my time is spent educating others, which itself is not an issue. However, a lot of that time is spent reiterating the same information to different people (and sometimes the same people) because of a failure to archive that information in a way that can be passed to someone else without manual intervention. That is a problem and this website is a project designed to alleviate it.

Other Motives

Aside from helping to optimise the process of teaching others, it's also a learning project for myself. There are gaps in my own knowledge, and web design was one of them. The most effective method of learning a subject is by putting it into practice, and the HTML/CSS required to construct the foundation of this project only took a couple days.

My consumption to contribution ratio of the free and open source software ecosystem is not very balanced, which makes providing accurate and openly accessible information easy to justify when it's being done outside of hired consultations anyway.

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).

Furthermore, 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 accessibility of the modern Internet, anyone really can learn anything. However -

  1. A considerable number of people lack the initiative to just look things up themselves
  2. Current SEO algorithms in most search engines prioritise bad results
  3. A good result may have paywalled information
  4. 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. Many educated 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.