What I'm Doing Now

I recently learned about /now pages, and I really liked the concept. So here is mine.

Where I Am

Probably in Germany. I moved here a few years ago, and I'd like to stay here for now.

What I'm Working On

CW: work-related, negative

Professionally I work in software engineering - or rather: I work in what is left of it. AI-assisted coding (aka baby-sitting Claude Code) is making me seriously think about whether I want to stay in the industry in the long term. For me, using (and being essentially forced to use) AI-coding tools is taking the fun out of creating software.

I'm sorry for the serious tone, but not mentioning that would feel dishonest. 😅

Other than that I do have a bunch of personal projects. Most of which are half-finished - because shiny new projects are more interesting than finishing old ones. 😉

Here are some of my active projects:

HTML Compiler: A compiler that takes an HTML file and some CSS as input and generates C code that displays the content using native GTK widgets. It's written in Golang. The basic structure is in place, but the devil is in the details.
stackedlang: A programming language that's completely based on stacks - very similar to Forth but with native types, lambda expressions, ... It actually works and I did day 1 of AoC 2025 with it. It's very slow though - the interpreter is written in Python.
Grimoire: A very minimal but extensible static-site generator written in Python. I like it a lot - this website is even built with it. I don't consider it finished yet, but you can still give it a try if you like.
Minecraft Rubik's:: A working Rubik's Cube in vanilla Minecraft using mcfunctions. I got the basic concept to work but since mcfunctions are just a pain to work with I haven't touched it since then.

What I'm Learning

I'm not actively learning anything right now, but I recently noticed just how much I've been picking up on the go. Here are some interesting/weird/niche things I learned recently:

You can debug real world AI agents like they do in the show "Westworld".
Microsoft Entra ID's "OBO" flow is not based on RFC 8693 (OAuth Token Exchange), but on RFC 7523 (OAuth JWT Authorization Grants).
The "Clear-Site-Data" HTTP header can be used to clear the client cache from the server side.
According to RFC 7540 (HTTP/2.0) all headers must be all lower-case - camel case header names are invalid.
It's totally valid to send emails without a "To" header (RFC 5322).

... I wonder if I should create a whole section for these sort of things. Kind of like a Today-I-Learned/Fun-Fact index.

What I'm Watching

"That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime" Season 4 (on Crunchyroll)
"Drops of God" Season 1 (on Apple TV)
"So I'm a Spider, So What?" (again - it's just a very good show; also on Crunchyroll)

What I'm Listing To

Practically everything. 😅 Just take a look at the music player on the home page.

But there is some stuff I listen to more often lately:

Electric Callboy
Tony Ann
Belle Sisoski
Bring Me The Horizon
After Cooking
BABYMETAL

What I'm Reading

I mainly read escapist fiction.

"That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime" by Fuse (currently at volume 22)
"Tsukimichi" by Kei Azumi (impatiently waiting for volume 15 to be released in English)
"How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom by Dojyomaru" (finished volume 6 some time ago)
"The Ninth Rain" by Jen Williams (I should probably start reading it again...)

What I'm Playing

When it comes to video games I don't really play any at the moment. The last one I played (that wasn't a browser game) was Gremlins, Inc. according to Steam.

I do have an ongoing TTRPG game with some friends. We are playing HeXXen 1733.