Amadeus Maximilian’s Blog

I built another app!

A short post on fixing cryptic JavaScript errors in Safari caused by trying to hydrate components dealing with top-level await simultaneously in Astro.

Sometimes, I take on voluntary work I don’t want to do.

Am I the only one who feels like changelogs aren’t what they used to be any more?

I accidentally installed a likely vibe-coded Obsidian plugin and found myself enjoying it.

I might have overdone things recently and now I’m paying the price for it, so I’m slowing down a little.

I recently tried out Pocketbase, and now every problem looks like it could be solved with Pocketbase…oh if only that were true.

Someone managed to get into one of my remote hosts.

The end of the year is coming fast—high time to reflect on what happened during the last twelve months.

I had a bit of a moment thinking of how much I’ve achieved by simply doing something every evening for a very long time.

I do like building apps, and I mostly do it for myself—but it would be nice if others could enjoy them as well.

I built an app—again.

Musings about a rekindled interest in my card game Magistan and the procedural creature generator I have built for it this month.

I tried out the Zed code editor on and off for a while…until it kind of stuck and might be becoming my favourite editor since Atom.

Some thoughts on where I think the web might be going now that companies have decided that browsers aren’t needed to browse the web anymore, but should only serve as interfaces to chat-bots.

I thought it might be a fun idea to share my digital “toolbelt” so to speak.

This month, I had yet another long discussion about “AI” with an old friend from my school days, which made me question whether I’m being too idealistic and I’m once more being held back by my ideals.

A more personal essay in which I outline a worrisome health situation I’m currently having to go through and the fears and frustrations that are coming along with it.

My personal Umami instance was neglected for a long time because of some issues with building new versions—when it finally broke, I went looking for alternatives, with a surprising result…

Sometimes you casually stumble upon a tiny little app and a couple of days later you realise how much joy it brings back into your life. feeeed (lower-case ‘f’, four ‘e’s) is one of those apps for me.