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I’m sure it will come to bite me in the ass one day but my personal site is a wiki written in the style of website that I’d write as a teenager: random updates
by arjie 2y ago
I’m sure it will come to bite me in the ass one day but my personal site is a wiki written in the style of website that I’d write as a teenager: random updates about things and my life without any overlying theme or brand. I just write what I think, sticking my Blog entries under the Blog category and posting things haphazardly otherwise.
Other things I do that one doesn’t these days but you’d be eager to do in the past is that I’m public about my life. Funnily enough, it was someone else’s comment about Wikipedia deleting their article (which I did manage to recover) that pointed me to a Japanese mathematician. His website filled me with such nostalgia. There were all these stories of his life and things like that.
We used to put things like that on the Internet. The one thing I did miss back then was the ability to make small updates to people’s websites to fix typos and so on. So my website is a wiki (it’s just Mediawiki).
It’s been vandalized before by bots but I make nightly backups to R2 so I just dump and restart if things get ugly. Otherwise, it’s been fine.
One thing that might be fun is if someone one day happens upon my site and feels that sensation of looking at someone’s lived life.
- skrebbel 2y agoHey I enjoyed reading your site! Also, notably, it made me aware of the word "Bundeshausfrau" which is my new second-favourite German word (after the un-dethroneable "Sitzpinkler").
- sshine 2y agoI’m a sucker for “Krankenhaus!”
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- arjie 2y agoI like saying "sitzen, nicht spritzen" to amuse myself, which is a close relative. But the funniest thing is that I thought I'd coined Bundeshausfrau in that post but it's apparently the most obvious choice to express the concept in German because it's been used at least a decade ago (and possible more)! Well, TIL.
- ninalanyon 2y ago> We used to put things like that on the Internet Some of us still do. But I think it was always very much a minority even on platforms that encouraged it. See Similarworlds.com, a successor to the Experience Project.
- arjie 2y agoWow, such an old school social site. I love it. And it's so fast compared to websites now (including, sadly the Mediawiki installation I have haha).
- mikae1 2y agoLovely lil wiki you have! :)
- arjie 2y agoThank you very much :)