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Marudor wanted a custom logo for marudor.de, a website providing a plethora of information about trains in Germany!

In 2020, I started making my own soft drinks, including a sugar-free, caffeine-free cola!

An action game where the goal is to close all popups!

Bine and I made this little game for the infamous The Boston Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon in a single day.

At this point, I’ve lost track of how many games I’ve made for Ludum Dare, but I’ve been doing it since 2016!

When I want to learn something new, an approach that works really well for me is to take on small, real-world projects, and learn everything I need while realizing that project.

Ever since I’d seen RujiK’s tweet about this, I wanted to try implementing inverse kinematics myself!

URL: https://glitchgallery.org

An abstract 2D puzzle game, inspired by Sokoban, Snakebird, and Stephen’s Sausage Roll.

In the beginning of 2020, I did a workshop about the constructed, minimalist language Toki Pona.

After Bine did the design for this year’s Chaos Communication Congress (a large, annual hacker conference taking place in Germany), she was asked whether she also wanted to do the opening and closing sessions!

At the 36th Chaos Communication Congress, Bine and I did a third “Operation Mindfuck” talk about art, computers and curiosities!

Linus had the idea for this sticker – it’s a pun on a German soap opera!

I updated my backup strategy and this page in 2022.

This year, I participated in PROCJAM 2019 for the first time, a friendly jam around procedural generation!

In October 2019, I visited Amsterdam and Berlin (multiple times), spend a lot of time with Toki Pona!

Toki Pona is a minimalist constructed language created by Sonja Lang in 2001.

The Recurse Center describes itself as “a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City”.

At the Chaos Communication Camp 2019, I gave a talk about “the why and how of game jams”!

This is the second full song I ever created!

Rohieb and me just spent 10 days in Iceland!

The last part of my daily checkins at the Recurse Center, after months 1 and 2!

For some reason, this bot is consistently funny to me!

Continuing my check-ins from the first month!

An animation Winston and I made at the Recurse Center.

Ever since I gave my first talk about esoteric programming languages, I wanted to create my own one.

I’m currently in New York City for three months, to attend the Recurse Center, a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers.

A game for Ludum Dare 44, made with byshiny, pleekman, thechutrain, and Tim at the Recurse Center.

I got the idea for this story when brainstorming for Ludum Dare 42, but my teammates didn’t like it.

A quick project at the Malkränzchen, our weekly creative meeting in my home hackerspace, Stratum 0: Feel free to deploy it on your favorite cupboard!

At this year’s iteration of the Wikidata workshops in Ulm, bleeptrack and I built a Wikidata Card Game Generator!

A game for One Hour Game Jam #197, with the theme “misleading title”.

URL: http://flauschzelle.de/the-floor-is-lava/

At the 35th Chaos Communication Congress, Bine and me did another “Operation Mindfuck” talk about art, computers and curiosities.

URL: http://flauschzelle.de/ardens-artisan-artefacts/

In October 2018, I felt difficult feelings, applied to the Recurse Center, looked into the sky, and travelled through Scotland!

I made this in Blender after watching Andrew Price’s brilliant tutorial series (he’s working on an updated version for Blender 2.8).

URL: http://github.com/blinry/habitctl habitctl is a minimalist command line tool you can use to track and examine your habits.

This is a set of flashcards for the popular open-source spaced repetition software Anki, which will teach you signs of the German Sign Language.

At MRMCD 2018, I gave a (German) talk about Timelens, an Open Source project which creates visual timelines from video files, enabling more efficient, precise navigation.

Writespace is a puzzle game with simple mechanics, but interesting implications.

The SpaceAPI provides information about hackerspaces, like addresses, contact information, or door opening status.

The Verschwörhaus in Ulm had a big and secret 2-year birthday party this weekend!

Want one?

URL: https://timelens.blinry.org

I’m keeping two packing lists, one for short-term and one for long-term traveling.

Motivation Given a page of written content, its structure is pretty apparent.

@gebaerdenbot is a Twitter bot which tweets a few signs of the German Sign Language per day.

A workshop for the Gulaschprogrammiernacht 2018 about building Twitter bots with generative grammars via Tracery.

The theme of Ludum Dare 41 was “Combine two incompatible genres”.