## About this site _May 30, 2025_ For years, I have been trying to create an online public repository of my notes, that would be useful not just to me but anyone else looking for that one nugget of information that eludes them. ### Wikis Many years ago, I was introduced to wikis and loved the idea - a place where you can jot an idea with minimum effort and almost immediately publish it. Pages are not structured in a strict fashion but rather link to each other. The problem was wikis posed a significant security risk to maintain. Since the edit interface was visible to the world, you have to spend effort to not just protect it but to always keep an eye out for new vulnerabilities found. Years ago, a Python based wiki that I maintained got attacked by spammers due to a new exploit that I had not yet patched. Wikipedia, based on PHP has similar issues even though it has got remarkably safer now. ### Static Content At some point, I made the decision to only publish static content, and edit via a different mechanism. I tried different static generators like Jekyll, Hugo, mkdocs, but the publish cycle was too long. ### Obsidian Some years back I moved to [[Obsidian]] and have been keeping a growing number of private notes. I do have a [blog](https://blog.sandipb.net) but it has the same problem of long write to publish cycle (It is based on [[Hugo|Hugo]]). Obsidian has a publishing/hosting service called [[Obsidian Publish|Obsidian Publish]] which is expensive for what it does, and for a while I have been trying to avoid it. Recently, I tried it out and it has checked a few of my boxes - ease of publish, speed. So this is my attempt to use this as my current wiki solution. Let us see how long it lasts. ## Logo During the Ghibli craze a couple of months back, I uploaded a photo of mine to make a Ghibli version and GPT-4o came up with this. Apart from girth :) that image doesn't resemble me at all, but I kind of liked the character. So I decided to keep the character for my sites from now on.