The development of global and especially US politics in the last decade made it clear that Europe must become more sovereign and independent from the US. And the same applies to everybody in the world regarding big tech. This here should be some kind of dashboard to reflect my current efforts and challenges. Maybe...

Private Projects This very website. See Colophon for more details about the tech stack. My Homelab built on Kubernetes and Talos. Zirric is a small programming language that favors declarations, readable data modeling, and annotations that describe capabilities without interfaces. The successor of Lithia. Go,...

This website is built using Hugo and hosted on GitHub Pages. The whole source code and configuration can be found in the GitHub repository. The theme is hand-written and also available in the same repository. If you wonder what the previous template was: Archie. The fonts I use are: Lora by Cyreal. It’s mostly used...

This book captivates from the very first minute. At its core are the moral beliefs of a hunter and where they can lead. There is no judgment—just the story told from his perspective. At times, his thought processes are almost unbearable to read when they fundamentally clash with your own beliefs. Roughly halfway...

It is slowly told and a bit sluggish in the middle. There are occasionally uncomfortable passages to read because they aren’t properly reflected upon at the time. The ending is beautiful and emotional. But, as you read, you often wonder why. Yet people like that existed and were considered normal for the time.

Starting with this year, I have decided to discontinue all of my open source projects. Most notably this affects my VS Code extensions for Swift. I archieved the repositories and requested to deprecate the extensions in the Visual Studio Marketplace. Also I decided to stop my work on my toy programming language....

This book is placed in a highly political context: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It’s about inner moral conflicts, daily racism and the consequences of our actions and the fear of doing the right thing. It’s an exiting and emotional book. I really enjoyed the read.

A few years ago while I started working on Lithia, I decided to use whatever takes me to my goal. Getting finished was the primary focus. And I did. With Zirric I want to take less compromise and build a better language. Performance and portability aren’t completely irrelevant anymore. This blog post is part of a...

After a long time of procrastination I finally resumed my work on my new programming language. Back then I wrote about the current state of Lithia and how I arrived in a dead end regarding the language design. Sure I proposed some large changes, but if a lazy evaluated programming language with a parensless call...

The book opens with a shocking moment. Trigger warning: themes of suicide and depression. After that, the pace slows and the story gradually draws you in. While it may not be thrilling in the classic sense, it captivates on a different level. It’s a moving and wondrous book, written at a cosy pace that never becomes...

The story is told from the perspective of a young boy in ancient Rome who grows up in a brothel. Some intense topics are brought up and talked about. But a lot of it is left to the reader’s imagination. So, luckily, the most intense topics are left out but still talked about. At times, while reading, you already...

One of the most iconic species of Anthurium is undoubtedly the queen of Anthuriums: the Warocqueanum. With its long, tapering, and often dark leaves, especially adult specimens know how to make a grand impression. The leaves of the Anthurium Warocqueanum can reach a length of over one meter. In this case, they are...