At the very first Chaos Feminist Convention, I gave a (German) talk with all my tips & tricks of how to do a vegan diet in 2025!| blinry's homepage
Made after a lot of mosquito bites at the Hacken Open Air camp…| blinry's homepage
I’ve always wanted to build a compass belt! The idea is to attach a couple of vibration motors to a belt, use a compass sensor to find north, and then to let the motor that points north vibrate!| blinry's homepage
In the spring of 2023, I ran my first marathon, the Hamburg Marathon! 🏃| blinry's homepage
Kitchen Organization Group blinry| blinry's homepage
In the beginning of 2023, I was unhappy with my creative output. I’d often spend days on small busywork, and wouldn’t put a lot of time into creating pretty or useful things. I considered that a bug, and wanted to change it. As an artist and self-employed person, I’ve had some opportunities to experiment!| blinry's homepage
A chiptunes track made in Ardour in a week! I’m… not too fond of Ardour, to be honest. It had weird behaviour, crashed a couple of times, and forgot instrument setting after re-opening a project. Anyway, I made a song! :)| blinry's homepage
For the demoparty Revision 2022, Winnie and I made a music video that uses only HTML sliders! :D It won first place in the “Wild” competition!| blinry's homepage
🏛️ Visit the exhibition| blinry's homepage
In October 2021, I had a streak of bad luck, hugged people, and loved and ran a lot!| blinry's homepage
I spent a one-week “mini batch” at the Recurse Center in 2021. I wanted to learn how to do 3D things in the browser, and how the wave function collapse algorithm works!| blinry's homepage
“blinry” is now printed in my official German ID documents! I want to tell you how I did it, and document this as well as I can, so that you can maybe do it, too!| blinry's homepage
This is the replica of a “knitting row counter ring” that I like. It has two rotating number rings, which you can use to set numbers from 0 to 99.| blinry's homepage
In October 2020, I spent time in nature and indoors, made and played games, and was pretty exhausted.| blinry's homepage
Sometimes, people have so much unconditional trust in me that they throw money at me at a regular basis. That’s awesome, and I’m always very humbled and thankful when that happens. I have this thing where, if you seriously want to give me $25 or more per month, I’ll set up a Twitter bot that talks like you, and I’ll draw you a custom profile image for your social media accounts. Here are the ones I’ve done so far:| blinry's homepage
The company Pengutronix does embedded Linux consulting & support, and which employs a number of my friends! They’ve been a lovely client of mine, and comissioned a number of logo designs over the years – and in 2020, they asked me to create a video intro for their talk recordings!| blinry's homepage
Marudor wanted a custom logo for marudor.de, a website providing a plethora of information about trains in Germany!| blinry's homepage
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.| blinry's homepage
Toki Pona is a minimalist constructed language created by Sonja Lang in 2001. It has around 120 root words and a very small grammar, and you can learn it in a few hours.| blinry's homepage
Linus had the idea for this sticker – it’s a pun on a German soap opera! :P| blinry's homepage
I updated my backup strategy and this page in 2022.| blinry's homepage
This year, I participated in PROCJAM 2019 for the first time, a friendly jam around procedural generation!| blinry's homepage
In October 2019, I visited Amsterdam and Berlin (multiple times), spend a lot of time with Toki Pona! :D| blinry's homepage
This is the second full song I ever created!| blinry's homepage
The last part of my daily checkins at the Recurse Center, after months 1 and 2! In this month, I transitioned to doing much more graphical/interacive stuff.| blinry's homepage
For some reason, this bot is consistently funny to me! 😂| blinry's homepage
An animation Winston and I made at the Recurse Center. Out of appreciation of the fabulous @beesandbombs, we internally called this project wasps and (gre)nades. :P| blinry's homepage
Ever since I gave my first talk about esoteric programming languages, I wanted to create my own one. Well, some years later, at the Recurse Center, I wanted to learn how to build compilers with LLVM, so that seemed like a good opportunity to try that! Presenting:| blinry's homepage
A quick project at the Malkränzchen, our weekly creative meeting in my home hackerspace, Stratum 0:| blinry's homepage
In October 2018, I felt difficult feelings, applied to the Recurse Center, looked into the sky, and travelled through Scotland!| blinry's homepage
I made this in Blender after watching Andrew Price’s brilliant tutorial series (he’s working on an updated version for Blender 2.8). If you’re interested in the source file, here it is.| blinry's homepage
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. It contains over 4000 signs and their meanings!| blinry's homepage
The SpaceAPI provides information about hackerspaces, like addresses, contact information, or door opening status. One team member maintaining this project approached me and asked if I could design a logo for them. Well, sure! :)| blinry's homepage
The Verschwörhaus in Ulm had a big and secret 2-year birthday party this weekend! The original logo actually depicts the front of the building the Verschwörhaus is situated in, but for me, it always had legs! <3| blinry's homepage
I’m keeping two packing lists, one for short-term and one for long-term traveling. Both are well-tested and time-proven, and have grown over many years. The first list tries to be complete, the second one tries to be minimalist.| blinry's homepage
Motivation| blinry's homepage
@gebaerdenbot is a Twitter bot which tweets a few signs of the German Sign Language per day. It is powered by SignDict.| blinry's homepage
The theme of Ludum Dare 41 was “Combine two incompatible genres”. I absolutely loved this theme, and we had a lot of fun brainstorming! Together with larkinia, Mai, rohieb, and Winnie, we set out to make a crossover between a platformer, a text adventure, and a children’s book. Graphics, music, and code was created by us in 72 hours.| blinry's homepage
This sticker depicts the first bars of “Never Gonna Give You Up”. It’s super fun to rickroll musical people this way! :3| blinry's homepage
A hackerspace in a neighboring city, the Freies Labor in Hildesheim, contacted me and asked if I could design them a new logo.| blinry's homepage
Usually, I create Markov chain-based bots like Potterbot, or my alter ego yrnilb. But learning about Tracery, I wanted to do one based on a formal grammar.| blinry's homepage
Last week, I built a tiny Linux system from scratch, and booted it on my laptop!| blinry.org
You might've heard this concern about veganism: I couldn't live without cheese!| blinry.org
Today, I get to start a train trip I've always wanted to do: Going from New York to San Francisco!!| blinry.org
Last week, I went on an adventure through the electromagnetic spectrum!| blinry.org
At the MRMCD 2023, I gave a talk about my personal wiki, which I've been using for 12 years now!| blinry.org
Ever since I read about the Make 50 of Something technique in Vi Hart's blog post about Fifty Fizzbuzzes, I wanted to try it for myself! Creating 50 of, well, anything, in quick succession seemed like a fun challenge!| blinry.org
An action game where the goal is to close all popups! But your mouse cursor might have other plans...| blinry.org
Bine and I made this little game for the infamous The Boston Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon in a single day.| blinry.org
Ever since I'd seen RujiK's tweet about this, I wanted to try implementing inverse kinematics myself!| blinry.org
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!| blinry.org
At the 36th Chaos Communication Congress, Bine and I did a third Operation Mindfuck talk about art, computers and curiosities! You can find the previous editions here and here.| blinry.org
The Recurse Center describes itself as a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City. In Spring 2019, I spent three months there, and loved it! At MRMCD 2019, I gave a (German) talk to share my experiences!| blinry.org
A game for Ludum Dare 44, made with byshiny, pleekman, thechutrain, and Tim at the Recurse Center.| blinry.org
At this year's iteration of the Wikidata workshops in Ulm, bleeptrack and I built a Wikidata Card Game Generator! It uses Wikidata, the free and open knowledge base, to generate fact cards on arbitrary topics, like metro systems, planets, or hackerspaces!| blinry.org
A game for One Hour Game Jam #197, with the theme misleading title. Done while I was in Brussels for FOSDEM.| blinry.org
At the 35th Chaos Communication Congress, Bine and me did another Operation Mindfuck talk about art, computers and curiosities. You can find last year's edition here.| blinry.org
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.| blinry.org
A workshop for the Gulaschprogrammiernacht 2018 about building Twitter bots with generative grammars via Tracery.| blinry.org
Auf dieser Seite stellen wir Ihnen das Antragsformular für den Passierschein A38 (nach Rundschreiben B64) als PDF zur Verfügung.| blinry.org
I gave this talk (in German) at my home hackerspace Stratum 0. It's a gentle introduction to creating 3D graphics using fragment shaders written in the OpenGL Shading Language, which allow an unusual approach to creating graphics:| blinry.org
A talk by Bine and me, presented at the 34th Chaos Communication Congress, featuring a wide array of nerd sniping topics, about art, computers and curiosities:| blinry.org
An abstract 2D puzzle game, inspired by Sokoban, Snakebird, and Stephen's Sausage Roll. Repair all sausages to win! Like Writespace, this is a game with simple rules, but a lot of interesting consequences!| blinry.org
You can get this shirt at GetDigital. It's a collaboration with my good friend Bleeptrack, who designed the front side!| blinry.org
Several people around me have been talking about Nix lately, and say that it's cool. And because I trust those people, I decided to learn a bit about it!| blinry.org
Rohieb and me just spent 10 days in Iceland! When we initially planned this trip, we realized that Iceland is an expensive country.| blinry.org
Fun with Linux kernel modules, Binary exploitation, and alumni| blinry.org
x86 assembly, boot sectors, and a weird programming language| blinry.org
