An Introduction to This Website
Introduction
Myself
My name is Henry Yip. I am a Mathematical Physics Student from the University of Edinburgh. I study the intersection of Mathematics and Physics, focusing on Quantum Physics, General Relativity, and Geometry.
Reasons to create a website
Hosting LaTeX documents online
February 2022 was when I started to create latex documents. While the process was enjoyable, I was unsatisfied as I lacked a platform to host my PDF files (On Quantum Mechanics, Probability).
Inspired by Toby Lam, I was convinced that websites are more sustainable than Social Medias (like Instagram). According to him in his post about “Why start a website”
With social media sites, attempts to archive content are probably nightmarish.
which is exactly my experience with Instagram. It is also nightmarish to write serious content due to the inability to include \(\KaTeX\).
It is also cool to have a personal space where you can customize things, and meanwhile picking up basic html/css skills.
How I learnt to build a website
I am using Jekyll all the way.
If you are asking what Jekyll is or how to download/use it, please check out My Tutorials. I spent a huge amount of time on these tutorials so I hope you can at least have a look…
You should probably refer to My Tutorial on How to Download Jekyll since there aren’t many tutorials online regarding this.
Why THIS particular website
After successfully creating a functional website, I imagine creating something big with this website. One day, upon the recommendation of Leo Chow, I decided to create a website to teach people physics, but we slowly figured out it was impractical unless we knew Manim (but we both didn’t). Instead, I decided to treat this as a personal website due to the flexibility. Whenever necessary, I can host others’ projects/works here if they need a platform.
I am thankful for everyone’s encouragement in the creation of this website.
How I feel about building a website
The process of building websites is painful but enjoyable. I had to learn so much, like how to enable RSS FEED, How to Change Skins (on my old website), and the method to Include Algolia Search. Each of these tasks took me at least 10 hours. Despite these, I continue to struggle with many tasks, like resizing images using plugins).
Final Touch
As I’m currently a Year 3 Student, I don’t have much time to maintain this website. If you want to collaborate with me/have further enquiries please contact me:
