May 2025
Re:publica 2025
Of Generations, Digital Realities, and Berlin in the Rain
It starts out like a joke: generation X, Y, and Z walked into a former train station. What followed at Re:publica 2025 was a crash course in AI, activism, and the awkward art of active listening. And most of us walked out changed having learned about new ideas and other people. I sure did.
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May 2025
Joyful Tools
How Delightful Design Elevates Creators
Some tools are powerful. Others are beautiful. But every now and then, you find a tool that's just so delightful to use, it makes you want to create. They don't just perform tasks. They invite exploration, spark curiosity, and gently nudge us into flow. Let me tell you about the joy of using a tool that feels right.
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April 2025
Revision 2025
A Journey Through Train Chaos, Creativity, and Community
Travelling from Thessaloniki to Saarbrücken wasn't easy but for the Revision 2025 demoparty, it was absolutely worth it. Amid wonderful demos, arcade machines, bonfires, and a sea of creative minds, I found once again what makes the demoscene so unique: the awesome community of technology and art.
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April 2025
From Spectator to Juror
My Tiny Role in the 'Oscars' of the Demoscene
Wanting to contribute to the demoscene in a bigger way, I became a jury member for the midschool category at the Meteoriks 2025 awards, sifting through an overwhelming number of demos, debating their merits, and helping to decide the year's best. It was a wild, but ultimately rewarding experience that deepened my appreciation for the passion and craftsmanship behind the scene. I even held one of the award speeches.
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Here is a random selection of articles from the archive. You
should read them, they're okay.
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January 2025
I Couldn't Decide Which Library to Use, So I Wrote My Own Website Search
I needed a search function on my website without bloating it with heavy libraries or server-side tools. Instead of relying on frameworks, I decided to write my own lightweight, client-side search from scratch. Here's how I did it, and why building it myself turned out to be a good idea.
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April 2023
Mansion of Trepidation
This is a choice-based solo fantasy adventure in the style of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books I developed in vanilla JavaScript. The graphics and text descriptions are generated using AI tools. The player can search the 'Mansion of Trepidation' to defeat the villain and rescue their young nephew.
A Wide Variety of Videos
Over the years, I recorded a number of Youtube videos on many different subjects like the Bitmap Brothers game "Chaos Engine" on the Atari ST, about the iPad apps that support the full resolution on external displays, on how to draw Captain America and a number of different design topics.
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Using AI Tools to Make Explainer Videos
What if you could create your own explainer videos without much effort? I decided to try it myself and made three explainer videos in only one day using generally available and cheap artificial intelligence tools. The results are perfectly workable. Take a look at the three videos that came out.
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A Lucid Dream Comic
This is a three-page comic based on a story from the dream diary of Lucid Fera. The dreamer watches a blind woman encountering her cats and contemplating existence. I drew the comic on paper, colored the panels using Procreate on the iPad Pro, and used Comic Life on the Mac for layouts and lettering. You can find the detailed steps of the process in the project description.
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Timelapse Painting Youtube Videos
These timelapse videos show the process I use to paint pictures on the iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil 2 in ProCreate. They are quick and easy to make because ProCreate is superbly snappy and delightful for quick paintings and I can record the process automatically using the built-in feature in the application.
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