Going over the background behind my “Daily Rucks” self-hosted ActivityPub project, explaining what it does and how it fits into my journey as an ActivityPub implementer.| Julian Fietkau
In this programming / game dev article, we use simplex noise to procedurally generate 2D side-view terrain.| Julian Fietkau
This blog entry describes how I designed and implemented a way to self-host Git repositories as part of my personal website.| Julian Fietkau
Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For- is a short visual novel set in a mostly contemporary world where robots and AI are ubiquitous and have almost reached the point where they are difficult to distinguish from humans.| Julian Fietkau
Scientific publications should reference reputable sources as much as possible. What is good practice for online sources?| Julian Fietkau
Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For- is a short visual novel set in a mostly contemporary world where robots and AI are ubiquitous and have almost reached the point where they are difficult to distinguish from humans.| Julian Fietkau
The fundamental question behind the concept of fate is as old as storytelling itself. Do we truly forge our own path through the causality of the universe, or are we beholden to some kind of unknowable higher order?| Julian Fietkau
When you're traveling through a war zone on foot during a storm, you tend to not be very picky when an opportunity to find shelter presents itself.| Julian Fietkau
In which I describe my journey of repackaging an old DOS game of mine for the web.| Julian Fietkau
Rain. It's more than just a phenomenon that exists in our world. Going back to the very cradle of humankind, the rain has been our companion wherever we have gone.| Julian Fietkau
If you knew that the world was going to end soon, how would you want to spend your remaining time? What would change for you, how would your priorities shift?| Julian Fietkau
This is a story of disease and suffering; of medication and adverse effects; of thoracotomy scars and cellular poisons; of the living who cannot help but to die and of the dying who cannot help but to live; of a resting place other than “on 7F” or “at home.”| Julian Fietkau
Having been originally planned as DLC before morphing into a half-sequel, half-standalone-expansion, the story of Hate Plus is deeply interwoven with the one of Analogue: A Hate Story.| Julian Fietkau
In this unconventional sci-fi/mystery visual novel, you are a space investigator hired to find out the truth about what happened to the *Mugunghwa* and how it got lost on its mission to settle foreign planets.| Julian Fietkau
You are a proud and successful military general, you have won many wars and conquered many kingdoms. But during the deciding battle you make a grave mistake, and you lose everything. Shamed and shunned, you return home to your emperor.| Julian Fietkau
Distancing yourself from your parents is an unavoidable part of growing up. Eventually, most of us come back around from the rebellious phase and learn to listen to what parts of our tradition and culture may be worthwhile additions to our own identities. But what if we're already too late?| Julian Fietkau
Deep inside the old sarcophagus city, while searching for food, weapons, or resellable scraps, you make an unlikely discovery: What you'd assumed to be an abandoned military facility is actually a pre-war planetarium. And as it turns out, the custodian robot is still welcoming customers after all these years.| Julian Fietkau
There are games built around a cohesive story with relatable characters, a satisfying dramatic arc and a worthwhile conclusion. This is not one of those games. The Stanley Parable is confusing and all-over-the-place, the main characters are inconsistent, sometimes depressingly shallow, other times infuriatingly opaque.| Julian Fietkau
Dear Esther's island is a mysterious place. Its beautifully crafted environments paired with the wonderfully eloquent and powerful narration create a sense of poetry that you can walk around in. It was unique and daring when it was first released, and it's arguably still not for everyone.| Julian Fietkau
This game is a delight. It features innovative and atmospheric narration throughout a captivating story, beautiful painted graphics and a gorgeous soundtrack as well as fast-paced and polished gameplay.| Julian Fietkau
Mechanically, Anodyne is heavily inspired by the older Zelda titles, though the atmosphere is very different and unique, possibly evoking Earthbound more than anything else. It feels like a dream that you want to get lost in, even though on some level you know there's something not quite right.| Julian Fietkau
Today the User Experience Roundtable Hamburg (in cooperation with the local IxDA) hosted a talk by Sebastian Deterding titled “9.5 Theses on Gamification.” For me it's been the first uxHH Roundtable for a good couple of months, but this topic with this speaker I couldn't pass up.| Julian Fietkau
As my studies continue towards their inevitable conclusion, I am once again faced with the situation of having to write a bachelor thesis some time soon-ish.| Julian Fietkau
Last week I was talking to the current professor for HCI at the University of Hamburg in his office, and among the current set of books that he was asked to assess for inclusion in our department's library, something caught my eye.| Julian Fietkau
In the summer semester of 2011, I was a student assistant for the Interaction Design course by Prof. Oberquelle. In this context I answered some questions which came up during the preparation for the exam in written form in the (closed) CommSy room of the course.| Julian Fietkau
Just a few hours ago I licensed and published some of my source code for the first time. It just never happened before.| Julian Fietkau
As some of you may already know, I'm running a tutorial on LaTeX for students in the Computer Science department this semester, half of which is a video tutorial on YouTube or as downloaded video files.| Julian Fietkau
Usually, people will recommend recordmydesktop, which is a very cool program that's available e.g. in the Ubuntu repositories. It works really well and all, but I keep running into walls with the OGG/Theora videos that it produces.| Julian Fietkau
As of now, my articles are publicly available in ePub format in addition to PDF format. I hope this will allow me to make them available to an even wider audience.| Julian Fietkau
There is once again a reason to look forward to the KBS – because next Tuesday, May 10, 2011 there will be two celebrity speakers. Two members of farbrausch will talk about their work environment and their craft.| Julian Fietkau
I'd been wondering what a good mobile office UI might look like, so I was eager to have a look at this one that came free with my phone. It's called ThinkFree Office and supposedly it works really well. Unfortunately I never actually could look at it. How come? Because the EULA is completely friggin' ridiculous.| Julian Fietkau
Three days ago I promised new features. After a gradual and stealthy launch of the last few UI elements, everything is now ready to go, so I'd be happy if those of you who are interested would like to check it out.| Julian Fietkau
OSNews has just published an article I've written on the subject of interface complexity.| Julian Fietkau
Last week (after it took us quite a while to find a date) Flo (and spontaneously Rolf) and I put our heads together with the goal of taking some good photos for my website and other online activities.| Julian Fietkau
I dedicated the past two or three days to my website and overhauled the technical basis for internationalization.| Julian Fietkau
Willkommen zum dreiundzwanzigsten und letzten (!) Bericht zu meiner Bachelorarbeit zum Thema Teachlets. Ein Lebensabschnitt geht zuende… Heute ist der große Tag: der Tag der Abgabe, der Tag der Veröffentlichung.| Julian Fietkau
Welcome to the penultimate bachelor thesis report. First of all I can announce: The thesis has been successfully finalized and printed and was handed over to my two supervisors today.| Julian Fietkau
Here is the third to last bachelor thesis report, about two weeks before the final submission of the thesis. Not much more will happen to the text.| Julian Fietkau
And already another week has passed, here comes the last report from (at least according to my current plans) the last writing phase of my thesis.| Julian Fietkau
Welcome back to the latest bachelor thesis report, a few hours early today for a change. This will probably be the fourth last one, since I have to hand in the thesis on December 6 at the latest.| Julian Fietkau
This report comes a little later than planned, because I was on the road for quite a long time last night. As already suspected last week, there is not very much to talk about.| Julian Fietkau
Hello and welcome to a new weekly report. Today I'll tell you about my conversation with Axel about the possibilities to improve the thesis even more. Contrary to my previous plans, a couple of points that are not quite easy have come up that will need a lot of attention.| Julian Fietkau
Welcome back to the sixteenth report on my bachelor thesis. Today I will be comparatively brief again. I'll tell you something about the results of the feedback phase (or rather: the absence of results) and about the second time I gave my presentation.| Julian Fietkau
This week I welcome you again with some self-inflicted delay, for which I apologize. Hopefully the previous blog post on a more relaxed topic was able bridge the gap. Today, first of all, there's info on the latest developments, which are not major.| Julian Fietkau
Today I've got something completely different for you again. I want to show you an idea I experimented with some time ago, which has to do with the perception of partially hidden images.| Julian Fietkau
A new Tuesday, a new weekly report. Welcome back! Today it's primarily about my colloquium talk yesterday, but there's also a short general update.| Julian Fietkau
Welcome to the last weekly report on iteration 1 of my bachelor thesis. Not to beat around the bush: since yesterday evening I consider it finished for the first time!| Julian Fietkau
It's Tuesday and there's a whole bunch of news related to my planning for the next weeks. In terms of new content, there is not so much to read this week.| Julian Fietkau
On October 1st, in two weeks, it is time: The new album “Heilig” by the band Letzte Instanz will be released and I'm looking forward to it as if it was Christmas.| Julian Fietkau
The regular Tuesday report is rather short today. I just put the last one online last Friday. Since then not much has happened for the following reason.| Julian Fietkau
Today there is a report in between, because it is worthwhile again. There is the glossary that I wrote for the paper – where people who have no idea about teachlets can finally have their say again.| Julian Fietkau
Most of the decisions I have made so far in the planning and execution of my bachelor's thesis have not come easily to me. I am someone who has certain difficulties deciding between several viable alternatives.| Julian Fietkau
Things are happening quickly now, stuff is now going at a crazy pace. It has to, if I want to get everything done by the end of the month… but after the last talks with Axel I'm cautiously optimistic.| Julian Fietkau
It's Tuesday evening again and I'm reporting back with the current status. For those who may have missed it: last Saturday there was a special out of rhythm organizational report.| Julian Fietkau
Welcome back to my bachelor thesis report, on an irregular day due to recent organizational developments. Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be turbulent.| Julian Fietkau
Today's post is about the promised surprise topic: In the context of the iPhone Power Day that took place today, Kai Meyer (an employee of C1 WPS) held a teachlet on the topic “MapKit integration on the iPhone” in the ESA B lecture hall in front of about 100 people.| Julian Fietkau
This week I'm taking a little thematic leap from the teachlet definition back to my empiricism. A few weeks ago I already mentioned once that I would like to conduct interviews to collect more “fodder” for my work.| Julian Fietkau
This week I'd like to make the first attempt at an updated teachlet definition. The end result of today's entry is intended to be the first attempt at an updated definition.| Julian Fietkau
Last Thursday I spent the morning at the Informatikum tinkering with the basic framework for an updated teachlet definition with a small group of interested people. Axel, Christian, a fellow student named Daniel who was unknown to me until then, and myself were present.| Julian Fietkau
Today's post is about empiricism and data collection. I would like to show you which considerations I have made regarding my data sources so far and what kind of data I would like to collect.| Julian Fietkau
The overwhelming consensus seems to be that the genesis of my bachelor thesis interests at least a few people. So here is the first report of hopefully many, in which I will first explain the topic and quote a bit from my draft synopsis.| Julian Fietkau
As some of you know, I've been in the unofficial preparation period for my bachelor thesis for some time now. The topic is fixed: “The Teachlet Concept: Limits and Possibilities of a Teaching Pattern for Software Design Discussions,” supervised by Axel Schmolitzky.| Julian Fietkau
For several semesters now, the University of Hamburg has been offering a service called Lecture2Go. The people responsible there have equipment and know-how for the successful recording of lectures and other talks.| Julian Fietkau
If you have previously read about esoteric programming languages, you may already be familiar with Piet. In case you haven't: Piet is a programming language in which program flow is specified in a graphical format.| Julian Fietkau
Quines are computer programs which produce a copy of their own source code as their only output. Quines like that are known to exist in every Turing-complete language.| Julian Fietkau
So this will be the first entry in my new blog. After more than two years, I have a functioning website again, this time even with really nice content. The visit should be worthwhile.| Julian Fietkau
This is an overview of the custom PC I built and case-modded for myself.| Julian Fietkau
I thought there wouldn't be another “I have a blog again” post on here, and if I'd just quietly put my blog back online, I promise I wouldn't be publishing one.| Julian Fietkau