January 2026
Why I Love the Demoscene
The Digital Subculture That Keeps Surprising Me
Imagine a fun community of passionate makers creating art within tight technical constraints. That's the demoscene. A simply amazing subculture of creative coding and digital art. In this personal essay, I explore why the demoscene has captured my heart and continues to inspire me.
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January 2026
Angels in a Temporary Utopia
The Chaos Communication Congress 39C3 in Hamburg
For four days every year, the Chaos Communication Congress creates a parallel universe consisting of hacker meet-ups, art exhibitions, political salons, and technologists' playgrounds. In 2025, it manifested once again in Hamburg as the 39th Congress. I was lucky enough to attend for the very first time! This is my travelogue of the punk rock technology utopia.
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December 2025
Drawing as Meditation
The Ritual of Lines That Calm the Mind
I like drawing. I'm not particularly good at it, but it makes me happy. It slows me down, sharpens my attention, and teaches me to accept imperfection. This is not an article about getting better at drawing, it's about what happens while you draw. Join me as I work through four different graphics and share what I learned about the quiet power of making something slowly, with my hands.
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November 2025
From Zero to Koala
Learning to Draw for the Commodore 64 to Compete at Transmission64
I joined the demogroup VCC to make graphics for their Commodore 64 demo without ever having drawn a pixel for this machine. Now my chunky images are part of a quirky Ski Jumper demo, released at the remote demoparty Transmission64 in late November. I learned more about retro art, collaboration, and community than I expected. This is my "making-of" and demoparty report.
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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.
Creating Videos with AI in 2025
A Hands-On Look at the Current State of AI-Enhanced Production
What started as a casual favor for a colleague turned into a deep dive into today's AI-powered video tools. I produced multiple short videos, combining scripts from ChatGPT, voice-overs from Artlist.io, stock footage from Envato, and editing in Final Cut Pro. The process was surprisingly fast, impressively capable, and full of lessons about what AI can (and can't) do in creative work.
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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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Timelapse Painting Videos in 2025
2025 was a productive year for my digital painting hobby. In some of these graphics, I wanted to explore the soul-healing nature of drawing with a range of concepts such as psychological tree drawing, alien landscapes, 90s extreme comics, a paint-over for a demoparty and many more. Here are the timelapse videos of my creations (some of them have articles related to them).
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The Blind Woman and Cats
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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