Why am I doing ProBase?
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Why ProBase at all?
What does the name “ProBase” stand for?
The name ProBase has nostalgic reasons: in the early 2000s, I was self-employed, and my company website ran under “probase.at” (I was living in Austria at the time).
The name emerged from a brainstorming session. Back then, I primarily wanted to offer services related to software development and databases. From the terms Programming and Database, “ProBase” was eventually created. I also liked the name because it could be interpreted as “professional Base”.
On a whim, and now living in Switzerland, I registered “probase.ch” in reference to this past, without having a specific purpose for it.
“Programming” and “Database” no longer fit today, but I still like the name and wanted to use it meaningfully.
Reason for launching ProBase
Basically, the website serves a purpose in itself. I want to expand my knowledge about enterprise architectures and documentation and have been looking for a way to collect everything in a structured manner.
Of course, there are many useful tools for local installation to gather and organize knowledge. However, at the same time, I also wanted to take a more technical approach myself and try out markup languages like Markdown and AsciiDoc, as well as tools that allow me to use them. Markdown is often used – alongside wikis – for so-called Static Site Generators. Hugo appealed to me so much that I definitely wanted to create a website with it. This is how the idea and purpose for the domain probase.ch was born.
Why trilingual?
Well, I grew up bilingual (German/French) and want to reflect that, plus English. This also fits very well in Switzerland. There is even an idea to translate the site into Italian, but for that, I still need to learn the language ;-)