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the escape sequence

Current/Recent Projects #

• How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)

  Netflix Series
  Technical Consultant, 2018-2022

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  I consulted Bildundtonfabrik in Cologne on technical questions concerning information security, software development, and nerd culture.

  If you see any code or a terminal on screen, chances are that I was involved.

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• planlos.in Deiner Stadt

  City Adventure Experience
  co-Founder, since 2016

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  Together with a ton of creative people including two friends from high school (my co-founders), I am developing and running planlos.in. Since our launch in late 2016, tens of thousands of people have been enjoying our tours.

  This escape-game-style city adventure allows people to experience new places in a unique way, and to discover their own city with new eyes.

  Players find clues, solve riddles, and generally have a good time.

  Throughout the last couple of years, I have been supporting our tour authors in creating great experiences by evolving our a Django/React based game platform (as well as contributing some of the riddles), and in occasionally checking the Ansible/AWS operations.

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• This Site

  the escape sequence,
  personal site, 2017-2021

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  My portfolio site, used to try out things from time to time. In 2020 I rebuilt the site using vitepress, a bleeding edge generator based on the Vue 3 and vite. In that process I picked up custom properties and dropped the SCSS in favor of plain standard CSS. This combination makes for a lightning fast editing experience, where Vite hot-reloads my content much faster than I can even start telling my browser to refresh.

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Previous Projects #

• Aachen Vue.js Meetup

  co-organizer,
  2017-2020

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  Recently on the backburner (thanks to COVID-19), Alexander Stoffers and I managed to gather the Vue.js Community in Aachen for seven meetups so far enjoying great talks as well as sponsored Pizza.

  Sign Up and join us for our next event!

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• LaxarJS

  middleware for the web client (stable)
  contributor/maintainer, 2013 – 2020

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  It was a privilege to have been employed as participant in an open source effort. LaxarJS can be considered a middleware that helps to decouple and structure your application components through a publish/subscribe-system.

  Initially, LaxarJS was mainly geared towards AngularJS developers, then turned into a bridging technology suitable for micro-frontend architectures. I favor using it in combination with Vue.js. For the LaxarJS team, Alex and I presented the project at enterJS 2015, goto;amsterdam and (W-)JAX Munich.

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• NBE and Wireflow

  node-based editing library
  various web technologies, 2014-2016

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  A toy project of mine, NBE is a user interface to display and manipulate directed hypergraphs. In such graphs, each edge may connect from any number of nodes to any number of nodes. Check out a demo example where NBE is used to implement a simple circuit simulator.

  The AngularJS (later: React) module is aimed specifically at node-based editing applications such as digital compositing, visual programming, data integration/mining and project planning. The hypergraph-model also lends itself to composing and visualizing publish/subscribe-systems, where topics are modeled as edges in the hyper-graph. Automatic graph layout calculation is provided through dagre.

  Later, I recreated the UI in React. This version was used to implement the LaxarJS Developer Tools for Google Chrome.

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• Firefox Input

  Sentiment analysis
  internships 2010/2011

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  During my 2010 internship with the mozilla data team in Mountain View, I built a sentiment analysis tool for the original version of the Firefox Input site.

  Sadly, the Python/Django-solution of that time is no longer with us (the code is, though). My Contribution was used to identify website breakage in advance of the Firefox 4 release (the first "evergreen" version of Firefox).

  Together with a good deal of ETL work, this actually got my name on the "Monument" 😉