Δ Delta

View at https://selimslab.github.io

What is it?

This is a place to bring together everything I like online.

Links, essays, photos, artworks, drawings, poetry, lists, code snippets, experiments, ..

Origin of the name

The name comes from the greek letter delta(Δ), it's used as mathematical symbol of change,
often for incremental change.

It reflects the philosophy of doing one little thing at a time.

Motivation

Doing one little thing at a time compounds over time.
Writing clarifies mind.
Editing provides natural spaced repetition.
Ideas spark each other and connect in creative ways.
This leads to more iterations and virtuous cycles.

How it works

Plain markdown files

All pages have a unique name

Backlinks

Any file can link to any other using its name. With html, markdown, or [[wikilink]] format.

Pages list their incoming links

Tags

Files can tag each other by their name.
Tags are listed above page title.

Prepare

_plugins\gen.rb visits all pages before rendering.

Figures out document tree, replaces wikilinks with html links, and adds backlinks to page metadata.

Publish

Published with jekyll, following barryclark/jekyll-now

Visualize

3D Graph of all pages

Works offline

A service worker caches all pages (4-5mb) on the first visit.

Setup

1. clone the repo
2. install ruby https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/
3. gem install bundler jekyll
4. bundle install

Serve

bundle exec jekyll serve --trace --incremental --profile

Deploy

Git push to main triggers a github action