- Originally a website made to be a video game wiki by me and a friend (hosted on Google Sites!)
- Late 2014/early 2015, a proper domain and server was bought to host the wiki, using mediawiki
- There wasn't much content, and it never really got off the ground nor much attention from us
- A forum was also added, but both the forum and wiki were just spam bots and it was abandoned
- A couple months later, a main page was built by me. Then the site died again.
- It had a game prototype (built in Unity, the files are lost to time)
- Actual custom CSS (some of it likely still survives to current site today)
- There was even search, apparently
- In 2016, I decided to try and revive the site.
- The unused (and spammed) wiki and forum were completely removed
- A blog was added (Wordpress, never used)
- Main page was reworked (again)
- In 2017--after dying again--the entire website was remade from the ground up
- A new domain was bought (giraffeduck.com, the old one was abandoned)
- HTML and CSS done from scratch
- APIs (like the bee movie one and the fox one) were added for fun
- And in early 2022, wanting to abandon LAMP (mostly PHP) for good, I tore out the whole site again
- Most of the HTML/CSS survived (it's still good!)
- But the website is now hosted using NestJS and a self-managed server (old one was CPanel, it was ok)
- No more PHP!
- And now there's today, I hope you found this small history log fun :)
I'm Atora (aka AtoraSuunva or Atlas). I like programming.
I develop software professionally (usually web stuff!) A lot of my work is much prettier and much more functional than this site, but I keep it around for both nostalgia reasons and as a general place to dump stuff.
If you're curious about things I've done, you can either check /code or my GitHub.
If you want to contact me, there's a couple ways on /contact
PS: The "Giraffeduck" logo and name come from a random image I found online while researching careers online back in 2015-2016. I found the image funny enough to keep it, although I never found the source ever again (I think it was a chemical engineer PDF? It was a weird source)