Digital Garden Portfolio
Obsidian for Knowledge sharing
I am a big fan obsidian, I used it to build this entire site, with the help of a plugin called the Digital Garden plugin, which uses Eleventy a static site generator.
I love the idea of future proofing, since you never know which technologies wont exist anymore in a few years, and what makes obsidian so cool is that all of your notes and folders and media are stored locally, and written using markdown, so even if obsidian goes away one day, your notes and knowledge will stay. Provided you make the appropriate backups.
I have been building this knowledge base since I started studying IT in 2023. Since then I have learned so much and do not have space for all of this in my noggin.
Which is where this website comes in. To serve both as a portfolio as well as a reflection of my progress and a way to share my thoughts.
Below you can see a screenshot of the visual representation of everything I have learned over the years in my career in IT as well as some personal notes and hobby related ones.
Some of my notes were lost, but I am making up for them by always revisiting previously studies topics as required.
Every dot you see here is one singular note/page, such as this one itself. The bigger the dot, the more connections it has to other dots, these links represent the interconnection of all my thoughts, ideas and knowledge I have collected over the years.
I am aiming to have this all organised and selectively shared in my digital garden, This is a collection of study notes, if possible exam write-ups, personal projects, random notes, ADHD fuelled research sessions and late nights spent studying, troubleshooting and zoning out.
About this website
This website will grow and change as I do and I hope that it inspires or even teaches you something new dear reader.
I thought that I could create two separate websites to keep my professional skills and personal projects separate but I believe I learn as much from either of them to allow me to host them in one single place. For you to browse as required.
My tech journey started with an interest in games development, in an effort to recreate and capture my favourite childhood games. More on that later.
I started out working in hospitality for my very first job and saved up my first few paychecks to buy a laptop, which I then used to do several short courses on Udemy. Most of them related to programming basics and game development with a little Web development in between.
I joined the MiDO academy in 2023 where I was trained in the fundamentals of IT, cyber security and networking. Including a host of various soft skills, such as public speaking, presentation and documentation.
I have shared on this site some of my projects, attempts and write ups of any issues encountered. As well as some notes and documentation thereof.
These notes will be shared on a weekly or monthly basis as I am working on a budget to publish and host these pages.
I also learned a lot about self hosting and messed around with that for a bit.
I am using Obsidian for most of my notes and documentation, to setup my tools and applications I use.
I touched on self hosting AI using Ollama, home lab network security improvements with Pi Hole and optimised my browsing experience with SearXNG and OpenwebUI. I will add more to my site as I learn and as the tech becomes available for me to do different projects.
While I did all these things, I learned a lot about the various tools, programming languages, development processes both technical and artistic as well as my own abilities.
There's no real order to these things, it's all just stuff I enjoy being able to do, when I have the time to do learn how.
Here are some of the technologies, tools and applications I've touched and worked with when doing my projects and testing out new tools and applications.
Some of these include apps and services I have experience working with at my day job as well.