Blog
Here I write mainly about all topics related to this site. It will be mostly technical in nature, but also about everything else that interests me, which is a lot: politics, art, philosophy, current events from the news, and always whatever is personally on my mind. And know ye: I am a Jack of many trades and a master of none. So take everything I say with a healthy dose of scepticism and a generous helping of suspicion. And if it doesn't taste right, feel free to add more salt.
From Pixels to Characters, from Characters to Pixels
Two new browser tools on ascend: the Asciifile-Creator turns images into ASCII art, the QRcode-Generator creates QR codes with no account, no tracking, fully offline.
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Four Years of Tail Emission
Monero celebrates four years of tail emission. What it is, why PoW consensus without a permanent miner incentive is structurally fragile, and why the Monero community got this right from the start.
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FuKyu Beta Is Open
FuKyu, a new browser-based strategy game about conquering space, is in beta. How the game idea came about, what 普及 means, and where to try it now.
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Seed Phrase in Your Head
BIP39 mnemonics you can actually memorize, brute-force last word, and browser tools that recover missing words - and why none of this makes sense online.
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Don't Feed the Kraken
On tracking pixels, passive revenue schemes and why I release everything under GNU GPL v3. A rant about the web, data aggregation and Big Tech.
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Alice and Bob are now lawfully under surveillance by the three-letter agency
Why encryption makes you suspicious, what steganography is, how LSB embedding works, and how Stegofile-Concealer hides AES-GCM-encrypted data inside a PNG.
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Does the Babel Fish speak Klingon?
A follow-up to the first post about AI and me - this time with Douglas Adams, Klingons, and the question of why 45 AI-generated languages are simultaneously impressive and utterly unspectacular.
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A full-stack developer on AI as tool, not threat - on productivity, historical acceleration, and why engaging with new technology is unavoidable.
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