Published: 14/04/2025
Last Updated: 22/04/2025
The TimeSeeker website is my little handcrafted corner of the internet, a personal storage where I display the things I've done no matter how much I might dislike them. I get to publish my stuff whithout forcefully pushing it in front of people's faces, something that I do not enjoy so much.
Localthunk once put into words something that I had been feeling for a while, he expressed the idea of documenting one's journey and thoughts not only for sharing, but for the sake of not forgetting.
This site was built using HTML, CSS, Typescript and GLSL, with Vite as a frontend build tool, GSAP as the only library and hosted with GitHub Pages. Except for GLSL, I had to learn all the other the programming languages from scratch as well as the ins and outs of a new development environment, a browser, etc... There are many options out there for anyone looking to have a website, all of them easy and fast to use in order to quickly and effortlessly achieve results, which of course comes at the expense of a good amount of freedom. I didn't only want to have a website, I wanted to build one myself.
I believe I got the desire to make a website sometime between 2021 and 2022, when I found out about stuffedwomb.at, the site of an indie game developer that I had been following for a while.
There, Stuffed Wombat shares a lot of his knowledge about game development. I got to know more about him and his work, and thought it was amazing! So, obviously, the next step was to build one myself from scratch.
As a last little fun fact, before this site existed as we know it, I was working in a much more... "experimental" version of it. I was looking for a very unique landing experience, called the Breath Page, a page that greeted the user before getting to the actual content, simply aiming to make people take a second before they continued with what they were doing. I really enjoyed making it, but for various reasons I decided to go for a much smoother and cleaner approach.