Ever since I started blogging, I’d always dreamed of maintaining a personal wiki which contains all of bits that deserve a place to stay.

Over the years, not just one, but four actually, I just kept creating one after another whenever I felt dissatisfaction.

  1. If my memory serves me right, the very first one was made using MoinMoin on my personal server for both blogging and writing wiki, running my own server was taking too much effort, so I stopped. It was called “The Tiny Bit”, circa 2009.
  2. YJL --notes on Google Sites, 2010-2012. I don’t like it, because of the syntax and my dislike of WYSIWYG editor.
  3. YJL --wiki using Google App Engine and GAEWiki, 2012-2014. I stopped because I didn’t want to maintain.
  4. The last one Yu-Jie Lin on Wikidot. It’s okay, but again, I don’t like the syntax and it’s a bit complicated system to my liking.

Note

Links of 2, 3, 4 have been removed due to the sites were deleted. (2015-12-02T02:37:29Z)

So, one after another, I could never keep the content written well, a piece here, another there. It’s frustrating when you just can’t find a system you want. Believe me, I almost created a new Bitbucket repository to host wiki, it allows reStructuredText and has hierarchical pages — GitHub has only one-level, but I couldn’t extend and the URL is lengthy.

Anyway, I now decide to give up having my own personal wiki and will be using blog posts, instead. Blog is not wiki, but I really don’t believe anyone would be interesting in reading someone’s personal wiki. For me, from time to time, I would search for a blog post of mine, because I know there is a series of commands I need to complete certain task, and I know I’ve written a post for it. Therefore, this decision is quite sensible to me, although blog just isn’t the same as wiki.

There probably will be some posts in the future, migrated from those wikis. Hopefully, I can finally clean up those wikis, and remove and delete them once and for all.

Speaking of personal server, I always feel amazed someone could maintain his or her own web, mail, file, and all sorts of servers. I did once and the time is just isn’t worth spending on, yes, you can learn a lot, but I’d rather let others do it for me.