So, the idea behind building this repository of static content on the web is that I sometimes make stuff. And sometimes I feel like I never make stuff, but I do make stuff sometimes. So, I wanted to have a little portal on the web that I can look at and it should have like a sequence of canvases each dedicated to a thing I made. Each canvas has only a date, I tend not to make more than one thing per day, one thing per day is enough. Rest is important. And I don't want to limit myself in the way I can represent the things I make.
I've tried making a YouTube channel and Bandcamp page in the past to serve this sort of purpose, but I've always felt stuck with the format. Some of the things I make aren't really videos, and I don't want to spend time making videos about them. So yeah, that's pretty much how we got here...
Naturally, if each post represents a thing I made, a nice first post -- a proof of concept per se -- is the post about this repository, QuieSoft! And yeah, this is that post! So, I could talk about how I'm structuring this thing so that I can dynamically add more content, and some of the ideas I have to make it scale to infinite posts. Also there's a search function that I'm building into this, that's pretty cool. But I'll leave all the technical stuff for some other day.
I actually want to tell the story of the name here. QuieSoft. It's not a new name, because this is not a new idea. I've been writing code since I was 10 years old. Like every kid at that age, I wanted to make games! And then I wanted to learn how to hack. And then I wanted to make websites. And I wanted to have a space to place all of my games/hacker tools. So I decided to start a fake company that would release the software I made.
And like the pretentious 13 or so year old I was, I gave it a name with a latin root. Quies is a latin word meaning quiet or sleep, it's where the root quie comes from that appears in words like quiet (or so Google has told me). At the time I equated the things I made to some sort of dreams I would have, and I wanted the place where these things layed to be restful. I was also a big Matrix fan (still am) and I was particularly fond of Morpheus, a character whose theming is all about dreams (giving the guy the name of the greek god of dreams was a bit on the nose, maybe). So yeah, I wanted a name that was calm, soft, reminiscent of dreams and that sounded like the name of a software company. So QuieSoft was born, in Google Sites at the time!
The original QuieSoft is long gone now. I'm not even sure I posted anything there even... Hopefully this new one can be a worthy successor to all the ideas I had at the time! And with some luck, I may even find some of my old projects again and unify them all here, for future reference!
