I’ve been struggling to write the 50k novel this month, unfortunately. I love using NaNoE Refresh already and have made a decent start for my unplanned novel. It’s just safe to share I’m struggling to get my mind back on straight with challenge of cutting so far back on drinking, it’s tough on my mind.

Since I need to finish toe courses I bought, some which give certification, I felt I should build myself a notepad of sorts that’s in the style of a wiki. Just because. Working with Copilot using GPT-4.1 primarily, I decided I would vibe code it to get a usable wiki with easy data interactions. Now, it doesn’t have user creation or editing passwords (still on default admin/admin as of this post), but it’s on my personal Gitea Raspberry Pi, so for now only I can use it.

The project uses simple structures:

• Rapberry Pi Zero 2W
• Apache2
• MySql
• Javascript: own, jquery-3.6.0.min.js, easymde.min.js, and marked.js

Then, the steps to implement it were through VSCode Copilot chat and inline chat. My rule was “write as little code as possible,” for a change.

First off, it was a bit troublesome to get used to not writing code myself 90% of the time. That’s why it took around 9 hours to achieve a usable and decent looking quick wiki from scratch. The idea is simple, use a path, e.g. ‘/a-info‘ for a wiki page.

Simple structures, and the easy operations – Edit and Add buttons just pop into separate pages, with an open-source CC0 markdown editor for web are easy enough to use.

As you can tell, very simple use and ease of grouping for access. There isn’t a way to edit the path, yet, as I’m deciding on how deep it needs to recursively update. There’s also a history of every page already managed by the simple php web service.

As you can tell, this is still in alpha stages; but I felt I needed to share it to get feedback. The file upload feature shown below isn’t beautified correctly yet; and yes, it does upload the files to my edg3git.local RPi web server to be usable through the markdown, but it’s a little buggy still. All I ask is that people interested in this minimalist personal markdown wiki could suggest extra features I can try vibe code in. I’ll likely, when I finish all the extra features I still want, such as password changing, put it up on my GitHub profile as a public repo.