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| ====== OwenWiki: Owen Mellema's Personal Encyclopedia ====== | ====== OwenWiki: Owen Mellema's Personal Encyclopedia ====== |
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| Congratulations! Assuming you typed the URL for this webpage into your browser's search bar ((As opposed to clicking on a link ;) )), you have successfully spelled both the words "Owen" and "Mellema"! (( Not to mention the ever-so-important "www", "wiki", and "com"! )) | Congratulations! Assuming you typed the URL for this webpage into your browser's search bar, you have successfully spelled both the words "Owen" and "Mellema"! (( Not to mention the ever-so-important "www" and "com"! )) |
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| | ===== Things that you can find here ===== |
| | ^ Category ^ Topic ^ Featured Article ^ |
| | | Technology | [[projects:Projects]] | [[projects:archevo:ArchEvo]] | |
| | | | Opinions | [[technology:opinions:abiasedguidetounittests | A Biased Guide to Unit Tests ]]| |
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| | ===== About Owen ===== |
| | // See also main article: [[ misc:whoisowen | Who is Owen? ]] and [[https://old.owenmellema.com/content/resume.pdf | Resume]]// |
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| | Hi! I am Owen. I really like computers. I like computers so much that I studied computers in college, and at work I work on computers. When I am not tinkering with computers, I will usually be gaming or reading. |
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| ===== About this website ===== | ===== About this website ===== |
| ==== Why have a website? ==== | ==== Why have a website? ==== |
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| My inspiration for creating this website was [[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdKZVIGRAKQ | this video by Luke Smith ]], a technology personality (( Is that a thing? )) whose opinions (and memes) I agree with quite a bit (( Even though he would probably frown on me having a website with JavaScript -- but, in my defense, it is FOSS! )). Here's my reasons: | My inspiration for creating this website was [[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdKZVIGRAKQ | this video by Luke Smith ]], a technology personality whose opinions (and memes) I agree with quite a bit (( Even though he would probably frown on me having a website with JavaScript -- but, in my defense, it is FOSS! )). Here's my reasons: |
| * Having a personal webserver means I am not reliant on any company's revenue structure to share my life. I am increasingly critical of Big Tech's influence on society. I believe that, for example, social media is actively making people's lives worse, causing them to become more self-conscious, depressed, angry, and all around more miserable versions of themselves. | * Having a personal webserver means I am not reliant on any company's revenue structure to share my life. I am increasingly critical of Big Tech's influence on society. I believe that, for example, social media is actively making people's lives worse, causing them to become more self-conscious, depressed, angry, and all around more miserable versions of themselves. |
| * I have the freedom to format my information in the way that I see fit to do so. | * I have the freedom to format my information in the way that I see fit to do so. |
| ==== Why a wiki? ==== | ==== Why a wiki? ==== |
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| Although my [[https://www.owenmellema.com|old webpage]] is quite nice, I found that some of the tasks I wanted to accomplish were either extremely inconvenient or impossible in pure HTML. Firstly, one of my projects, [[ projects:archevo:ArchEvo ]], was becoming absurdly complex, and having a branching documentation structure seemed like the only way to sanely document what I was doing. Secondly, using this wiki structure makes it a lot easier to make changes to webpages. Previously, I would have needed to make an edit locally and upload the file via FTP. This is a bit of a chore, and I would end up putting off uploading. Finally, the presence of an ACL makes it easy to determine **who** gets to see **what**. | Although my [[https://www.old.owenmellema.com|old webpage]] is quite nice, I found that some of the tasks I wanted to accomplish were either extremely inconvenient or impossible in pure HTML. Firstly, one of my projects, [[ projects:archevo:ArchEvo ]], was becoming absurdly complex, and having a branching documentation structure seemed like the only way to sanely document what I was doing. Secondly, using this wiki structure makes it a lot easier to make changes to webpages. Previously, I would have needed to make an edit locally and upload the file via FTP. This is a bit of a chore, and I would end up putting off uploading. Finally, the presence of an ACL makes it easy to determine **who** gets to see **what**. |
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| Also, wikis are awesome. | Also, wikis are awesome. |
