Tora
Where it all began.
The first website I put out into the world started with theft. I'd found a few PDFs online with the Beibel Santu na Papiamentu in them. Tur derechi reserva was written everywhere, but I figured: God will understand. I needed a project.
Although I'd been trying to program since I was about 13, it never worked, because my English wasn't technical enough. What's an "integer", and why is it a "float"? Around 16 (2008) I finally learned Lua, in order to mod Multi Theft Auto. Making cars rain, for example, or what I did more often: implementing real life inside the game. Exactly like this (better without sound). Nothing serious, obviously, but enough to build a database.
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2015: beibel.wlsing.nl
In 2015 beibel.wlsing.nl went online. This is what it looked like back then. This was the predecessor of what is now Tora. The stolen PDFs became a searchable database, so you could find exactly what you needed.
Downtime and recovery
For a long time the Bible website stayed exactly the same. There was also a period when it was offline, because I'd forgotten to migrate it to a new server. It always worked, and I never had to do anything to it, so yeah. Bible gone. Until a man from Curaçao emailed me to ask about the status of the website. That's when I realised I was leaving the Word behind. Thankfully the website was back online quickly after that.
The second downtime was during the hurricane. It stayed offline for a long time, and I knew it, but I couldn't scrape together the time, interest or focus for it. After the storm it became the first priority. In line with the Word of God in my life.
What Tora is now
Now it's much more than just the Beibel Santu na Papiamentu.
Once, during a Bible study, a man told me that the Beibel Santu is a word-for-word translation of the New American Standard Bible from 1995. Since those words entered my ears I wanted to make a mapping between the two, to find the original Hebrew or Greek words behind the Papiamentu words via the NASB. Basically: build a Papiamentu Strong's Concordance.
Given the size of the Bible and my ADHD this stubbornly stayed an idea, until a few months ago, when with the help of AI I finally managed to complete the connection. And that's what's in Tora now. There's more, but I'd have to explain that on Tora itself.
Note: most of the texts on Tora are AI-generated, except the Bible (Beibel Santu + NASB 1995).
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