Sebastian Morr

  1. Building a tiny Linux from scratch

    Last week, I built a tiny Linux system from scratch, and booted it on my laptop! Here’s what it looked like: Let me tell you how I got there. I wanted to learn more about how the Linux kernel works, and what’s involved in booting it. So I set myself the goal to cobble together the bare neccessities required…

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  2. Crossing the USA by train

    Today, I get to start a train trip I’ve always wanted to do: Going from New York to San Francisco!! This map shows that first section of the trip. I’m taking the “Lake Shore Limited”, an overnight train. Will arrive in Chicago in around 20 hours, and amazingly, that’s the only time I’ll have to change…

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  3. Cashew Cheese

    You might’ve heard this concern about veganism: “I couldn’t live without cheese!” 🧀 And indeed, the vegan cheese that’s available in supermarkets is often… not great so far. So I wanted to show you how to make a simple, quick & cheap cheese from cashews! It’s tangy, savory, and has lots of protein!…

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  4. Fifty Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio 📻

    Last week, I went on an adventure through the electromagnetic spectrum! It’s like an invisible world that always surrounds us, and allows us to do many amazing things: It’s how radio and TV are transmitted, it’s how we communicate using Wi-Fi or our phones. And there are many more things to discover…

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  5. Why you might want a personal wiki

    At the MRMCD 2023, I gave a talk about my personal wiki, which I’ve been using for 12 years now! My wiki consists only of a folder with text files inside, and a simple Vim plugin, but it has since become a central part of my life and ultimately the secret to my productivity! In the talk, I explain how…

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  6. Mücken Open Air

    Made after a lot of mosquito bites at the Hacken Open Air camp… The SVG source is available, if you want to repurpose this design for something! The font is Geo.

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  7. Haptic compass belt 🧭

    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! Wearing such a device seems to give some people a new sense of direction, so I was super curious to try it…

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  8. Running my first marathon

    In the spring of 2023, I ran my first marathon, the Hamburg Marathon! 🏃 This is the story of how I got there: how I started running in 2020, to how I ran 42 km (26 miles) three years later. How I got started When the Coronavirus pandemic hit in 2020, I was feeling restless and anxious, and was looking…

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  9. Blinry Container Standard

    Kitchen Organization Group blinry blinry-quest for Comments: 1 April 2023 Category: Standards Track Blinry Container Standard version 1.0 Status of This Memo This document specifies a standard for the Home Cooking community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Distribution of this…

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  10. How I do Weekly Projects

    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…

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  11. Building 15-year-old software with Nix

    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! What is Nix? Among other things, Nix is an ecosystem of tools that you can use to build software in a reproducible way: Usually, when I try to compile…

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  12. Linux Puzzles

    URL: https://linuxpuzzles.blinry.org

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  13. JSON Explorer

    URL: https://json.blinry.org

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  14. Floppiness

    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! :) The only instrument I used is the Helm synthesizer. Thanks to Piko, Moritz and…

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  15. Compass in the Sky

    URL: https://sun.blinry.org

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  16. Carrot Conundrum

    The incredible adventures of the bunny who hopped through time! A grid-based puzzle game about breaking the fourth wall, Made for Ludum Dare 52, together with Piko! Play here! Trailer

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  17. Operation Mindfuck Vol. 6

    Recording

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  18. Alarm Clock Arcade

    For the Ludum Dare 51 game jam, Kiki and me made another game! It’s an arcade game taking place inside an alarm clock! Inside the first digit of the seconds display, to be precise! Quick, start the alarm to wake up your human! But make sure not to be in a segment when it turns off! Play it at the Ludum…

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  19. The Dutil-Dumas Message

    A talk for INLAWS - International Negotiations on Love, Art, Wizardry, and Science. Slides (on Google Docs) A detailed interpretation of the message About the Cosmic Call as a whole Zine Print, cut, and staple your own zine! Message Data The binary message (reconstructed by me from this document): message.txt

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  20. What is color, anyway?

    I gave this talk (in German) at the 20th Gulaschprogramiernacht in Karlsruhe. Interactive tool You can try the tool I made for interactively exploring the xyY color space here! Links Slides (on Google Slides) Slides (PDF) EnthuasiastiCon talk about gamma correction

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  21. Sliderland

    URL: https://sliderland.blinry.org

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  22. Tides

    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! There’s a recording on YouTube: Online version You can play the demo here (works in Chrome, click to start the music). Make your own animations I remade the framework…

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  23. Shepherd's Island

    URL: https://flauschzelle.de/shepherds-island/

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  24. The Everything Exhibition

    🏛️ Visit the exhibition You can find the current build here: https://blinry.github.io/everything-exhibition/ 🐞 Report bugs! If something doesn’t work or looks broken, please let us know! You can describe the issue you’re having in our issue tracker. ✏ Write a content plugin! We’d like to make it easy…

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  25. Operation Mindfuck Vol. 5

    Recording Slides Here are the slides we used: (Open them in fullscreen)

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  26. Making fifty TIC-80 carts in a weekend

    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! So, on a free weekend in early December, I decided to try to make 50 programs for…

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  27. Inkdiary 2021

    In October 2021, I had a streak of bad luck, hugged people, and loved and ran a lot! And here’s a Twitter thread with the individual drawings: Loading tweet...

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  28. Cat Tree Generator

    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! What I built is a “cat tree generator”! I modelled the tiles in Blender, and wrote an algorithm that makes sure that the final structure…

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  29. The Ferro Paradox

    URL: https://blinry.itch.io/ferro-paradox

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  30. I'm (officially) blinry!

    “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! Specifically, it’s printed in the field “Ordens- or Künstlername/Religious name or pseudonym”, which is present both on the Personalausweis…

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  31. Oh My Git!

    URL: https://ohmygit.org

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  32. Operation Mindfuck Vol. 4

    Recording Slides Here are the slides we used: (Open them in fullscreen)

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  33. 3D-printed counter ring

    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. Between the number rings, there is a thin, slightly bent “tension ring”, which holds the number rings in place. Print your own! I designed and tweaked the…

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  34. Inkdiary 2020

    In October 2020, I spent time in nature and indoors, made and played games, and was pretty exhausted. And here’s a Twitter thread with the individual drawings: Loading tweet...

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  35. DIY soft drink recipes

    URL: https://github.com/blinry/soft-drink-recipes

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  36. Pengutronix intro

    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! Version 0.1.0 Pengutronix…

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  37. Boids

    A small interactive swarm simulation. Made with Godot. Play it here!

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  38. marudor.de logo

    Marudor wanted a custom logo for marudor.de, a website providing a plethora of information about trains in Germany! Here’s the logo we ended up with: Clean SVG here, PNG here, multi-resolution favicon here. Development I usually start a logo design with some sketches with ink on paper. Here are some…

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  39. Clickbait

    An action game where the goal is to close all popups! But your mouse cursor might have other plans… Play it in your browser! Some early praise “god I hate this game so much “Loved and hated this! Playing it on a laptop trackpad was an experience, would highly recommend.” “So good! This is a 10/10 for…

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  40. You Shall Not Pass

    Bine and I made this little game for the infamous The Boston Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon in a single day. It’s a game about finding the perfect password that fulfills all criteria. :P It has three levels, and takes a few minutes to play. Play it in your browser! Development We…

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  41. DJ Hamster

    At this point, I’ve lost track of how many games I’ve made for Ludum Dare, but I’ve been doing it since 2016! For Ludum Dare 46 (with the theme Keep it alive), I made a “music game” for the first time: you’re DJ Hamster, and it’s your job to keep some old-fashioned records spinnig! The game looks back…

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  42. Ihro Mayastät Podcast Intro

    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. In this case, I wanted to practice making music, so I asked around whether someone needed intro music for a podcast or something…

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  43. Hungry Spider

    Ever since I’d seen RujiK’s tweet about this, I wanted to try implementing inverse kinematics myself! So for the Berlin Mini Jam in March 2020, I made a tiny prototype about a human-eating giant spider in Godot! :) You can play it in your browser! Move your mouse, and click-and-hold to jump/eat people…

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  44. The Glitch Gallery

    URL: https://glitchgallery.org

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  45. Wurst Day Ever

    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! I had a lot of fun discovering these consequences for myself and designing the levels. Each level…

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  46. Toki Pona cheat sheet

    In the beginning of 2020, I did a workshop about the constructed, minimalist language Toki Pona. I always wanted to try to put the entire grammar of Toki Pona on one page, and I’m super glad that worked out pretty well! Here’s the cheat sheet, with the entire grammar on one side, and the entire vocabulary…

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  47. 36C3 opening & closing

    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! These sessions are intended to give the official part of the Congress a nice frame, and set…

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  48. Operation Mindfuck Vol. 3

    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. In this edition, we talked about strange chess variants, artsy Twitter bots, ray marching, daily drawings, mathematical paradoxes…

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  49. Gutes Cyber, Schlechtes Cyber

    Linus had the idea for this sticker – it’s a pun on a German soap opera! :P Find the print files here: SVG, PDF

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  50. How I do backups

    I updated my backup strategy and this page in 2022. Until 2019, my backup strategy was not very sophisticated: I occasionally made backups of my notebook on an external hard drive, using the command line tool rsync. It was a manual process, and I didn’t have a regular schedule, which meant that I basically…

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  51. SillyPond

    This year, I participated in PROCJAM 2019 for the first time, a friendly jam around procedural generation! My entry is called “SillyPond” (thanks for suggesting that name, sofia! It’s a generator for unplayable sheet music in the style of John Stump’s “Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz”. Using a mixture…

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  52. Inkdiary 2019

    In October 2019, I visited Amsterdam and Berlin (multiple times), spend a lot of time with Toki Pona! :D And here’s a Twitter thread with the individual drawings: Loading tweet...

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  53. xkcd in Toki Pona

    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. To practice this language, I started to translate some of the “xkcd” webcomics by Randall Munroe, which are published under a CC BY…

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  54. My time at the Recurse Center

    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! You can open the slides here, and here’s a recording…

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  55. Making video games in a weekend

    At the Chaos Communication Camp 2019, I gave a talk about “the why and how of game jams”! This is an extended version of my earlier talk Dare to Ludum Dare, offering a more general view on game jams. Here’s the recording - you can switch between English audio and a German live translation via the cog…

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  56. A Flicker of Hope

    This is the second full song I ever created! I had been flirting with the open source music creation software LMMS for many years, and always found it quite archaic and ugly. But a few weeks ago, I was annoyed how that prevented me from actually making music, so I decided to try to become friends with…

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  57. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Iceland

    Rohieb and me just spent 10 days in Iceland! When we initially planned this trip, we realized that Iceland is an expensive country. So we figured that, instead of renting a car, or booking apartments, like many people seem to do, we could bring a tent, and hitchhike around! The two of us had already…

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  58. The Recurse Center, month 3

    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. 2019-06-03 Hey everyone! :green_heart: Friday: Created an animation with @Winston Smith (S1’19)! We used p5, and learned things about easing functions…

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  59. HTTP codes bot

    For some reason, this bot is consistently funny to me! 😂 This bot is powered by the text generation engine Tracery, and hosted on Cheap Bots, Done Quick!, where you can also find its source code! To read it, start from the “origin” text at the bottom, and work your way up through the tokens which are…

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  60. The Recurse Center, month 2

    Continuing my check-ins from the first month! Putting all of these together, I’m astonished on the variety of stuff I worked on. (Also, the Recurse Center is very neat, and you should all go!) 2019-05-03 Hey everyone! I really needed some time off :exhausted:, but I’m back, and I feel kind of re-energized…

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  61. waspsandnades

    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 I learned a lot about easing functions and about how to plan and structure this kind of multi-step animation! Also, publishing this as a…

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  62. legit

    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: Programs written in legit are defined…

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  63. The Recurse Center, month 1

    I’m currently in New York City for three months, to attend the Recurse Center, a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers. It’s one of the best experiences of my life! check-ins, where you talk about what you did, and what you plan to do. I’ve found doing daily check-ins in…

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  64. Capitalist Piggies

    A game for Ludum Dare 44, made with byshiny, pleekman, thechutrain, and Tim at the Recurse Center. It’s a game about fast reactions, planning, and cute piggies! You play as a piggy bank that wants to escape a real bank, guarded by cute, but rather dangerous banker piggies. You can download the game from…

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  65. Running Out Of Space

    I got the idea for this story when brainstorming for Ludum Dare 42, but my teammates didn’t like it. We made Writespace instead, and I’m happy that we did. But in April 2019, I took the time to make an actual piece of interactive fiction around my original idea. Made with Twine. Play it in your browser…

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  66. Snack Overflow

    A quick project at the Malkränzchen, our weekly creative meeting in my home hackerspace, Stratum 0: Feel free to deploy it on your favorite cupboard! For convenience, here’s a high-resolution PNG image! While working on this, I also made a bunch of other variants, maybe you’ll like them better than I…

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  67. Wikidata Card Game Generator

    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! People seem to enjoy it! Check it out here: https…

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  68. Nuts and Bolts

    A game for One Hour Game Jam #197, with the theme “misleading title”. Done while I was in Brussels for FOSDEM. My first real game done on the “fantasy console” PICO-8. I was impressed by how quickly you can prototype on that platform! I’m especially proud how juicy this game is, including lots of particle…

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  69. The Floor is Lava

    URL: http://flauschzelle.de/the-floor-is-lava/

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  70. Operation Mindfuck Vol. 2

    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. Here are the slides we used: (Open them in fullscreen)

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  71. Arden's Artisan Artefacts

    URL: http://flauschzelle.de/ardens-artisan-artefacts/

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  72. Inkdiary 2018

    In October 2018, I felt difficult feelings, applied to the Recurse Center, looked into the sky, and travelled through Scotland! And here’s a Twitter thread with the individual drawings: Loading tweet...

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  73. Tiny Snek

    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.

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  74. habitctl

    URL: http://github.com/blinry/habitctl habitctl is a minimalist command line tool you can use to track and examine your habits. It was born when I grew frustrated with tracking my habits in plain text files using hand-drawn ASCII tables. habitctl tries to get the job done and then get out of your way…

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  75. German Sign Language for Anki

    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! The basis for these flashcards is SignDict, an open dictionary for sign language, developed by Bodo Tasche.…

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  76. Timelens und die Zukunft der Videonavigation

    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. There’s a recording of the talk on media.ccc.de: (If you prefer, there’s also a copy of the recording on YouTube.) And here are the…

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  77. Writespace

    Writespace is a puzzle game with simple mechanics, but interesting implications. It was made in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 42, together with Kiki and larkinia, and Lena and rohieb jumped in last-minute to help with the graphics! As for the story: You’re exploring a haunted house and find a strange parchment…

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  78. SpaceAPI logo

    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! :) Regular version This is the normal version, which can be used in website…

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  79. Watschelhaus

    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! Here’s the original Aseprite animation. Liam included this animation his projection mapping…

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  80. Nerd Metal Shirt

    Want one? You can get this shirt at GetDigital. It’s a collaboration with my good friend Bleeptrack, who designed the front side! You can also get it as a hoodie and in a cut which emphasizes the waist. History In September 2017, Bleeptrack and me had the idea for a festival shirt with nerdy band names…

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  81. Timelens

    URL: https://timelens.blinry.org

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  82. Packing list

    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. I’m very glad to have them. It gives me a lot of confidence, being able…

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  83. Visual timelines

    Motivation Given a page of written content, its structure is pretty apparent. You can easily scan the page and read the parts which seem interesting to you. (Unless it’s written by Leonardo da Vinci, duh. But you get the idea.) For a video, this is different. You can’t see the structure, because you…

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  84. Gebaerdenbot

    @gebaerdenbot is a Twitter bot which tweets a few signs of the German Sign Language per day. It is powered by SignDict.

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  85. Twitter Bot Workshop

    A workshop for the Gulaschprogrammiernacht 2018 about building Twitter bots with generative grammars via Tracery. Here are the interactive slides – you probably want to open them in fullscreen.

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  86. Splendid Adventures on a Sunday Afternoon

    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…

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  87. Rickroll sticker

    This sticker depicts the first bars of “Never Gonna Give You Up”. It’s super fun to rickroll musical people this way! :3 Here’s the LilyPond source file, and here’s a PDF ready for printing.

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  88. Passierschein A38

    Auf dieser Seite stellen wir Ihnen das Antragsformular für den Passierschein A38 (nach Rundschreiben B64) als PDF zur Verfügung. Sollten Sie für andere Zwecke einmal Veränderungen an dem Formular vornehmen wollen, steht die Quelldatei im SVG-Format bereit.

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  89. Freies Labor logo

    A hackerspace in a neighboring city, the Freies Labor in Hildesheim, contacted me and asked if I could design them a new logo. Well, absolutely! :) After brainstorming with some of the hackerspace’s members, we ended up with an idea involving Lissajous curves, a family of curves created by sending two…

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  90. Intro to 3D shader programming with GLSL and ray marching

    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: Geometry is modelled as a distance function, which describes the distance…

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  91. IDEA

    URL: https://idea-instructions.com/

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  92. Small Recipes

    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. The first result is @small_recipes, a random recipe generator! :) Results are suitable for beginners … Loading tweet... … and advanced cooks alike…

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  93. Space bar

    Any bets on which tiny star I’ll lose first? :P If you have access to a plotter and want to create your own, you can use my SVG file as a basis. The measurements of the space key were taken on a T460s.

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  94. Operation Mindfuck

    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: And here are the slides we used: (Open them in fullscreen)

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  95. Spring Clean – DO NOT CROSS

    A game for Ludum Dare 40 I made with Kiki. Original score by Winnie, character graphics by Mai! The theme was “The more you have, the worse it is”. Spring cleaning time! But be careful to protect your increasing number of cats from your roomba by drawing lots and lots of barrier tapes! You can download…

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  96. Ich, Ersatzteillager

    Ein Vortrag über meine Erfahrungen bei meiner Stammzellspende vor drei Jahren. Folien:

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  97. $HOME, sweet $HOME

    I’d like to describe how I organize my home directory, because I have tried a few different things in the past, and found an approach which works for me exceptionally well. It has a relatively flat hierarchy, doesn’t require much categorization, and makes it unambiguously clear where files go. Motivation…

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  98. Patreon avatars

    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…

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  99. Inkdiary 2017

    Inspired by Bine’s Schnipsel project, I started making little ink drawings about every day of October! Here’s a collage of all the drawings! For me, it holds a lot of emotional value, because so many things happened that month! I fell in love, saw a bunch of great movies, and drove a car after a long…

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  100. Watching Movies Backwards

    Ever wondered what a movie would look like when played backwards? Titanic: A boat comes out of the ocean to save a bunch of drowning people. Lord of the Rings: Two hobbits steal a ring from Mordor and emigrate to The Shire, while some of their friends travel around reviving orcs. Star Wars: A moon-sized…

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  101. gitlab-patcher Logo

    A logo for gitlab-patcher, a command line tool for managing complex sets of software patches. It’s a Tanuki! With band-aids! original GitLab logo created by Ty Wilkins. It was selected by the GitLab Infrastructure team from my three suggestions:

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  102. Dare to Ludum Dare

    At Hackover 2017, I gave a talk about my experiences with Game Jams, especially with Ludum Dare: Here’s a (German) recording of the talk, given at my home hackerspace, Stratum 0: Links New Ludum Dare Website Old Ludum Dare Website LÖVE, a cute 2D engine Freesound Project bfxr, a sound effect synthesizer…

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  103. CSS Art Workshop

    A workshop I gave at Hackover 2017 about making minimalistic CSS Art. Participants learned how to make complex pictures from a single, empty . Here are the interactive slides – you probably want to open them in fullscreen. Note that the “solutions” to the various topics are subslides, which you can reach…

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  104. McEscher

    Would you like some Möbius bacon on that?

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  105. Fix My Avatar

    In June 2017, Twitter decided to change the format of its users’ avatars from a square to a circle. This led to many avatars which contained text or rectangular logos being cut-off. Because I’m annoyed by such things, I wrote a Twitter bot which can fix these problems: @fixmyavatar. It analyzes the avatar’s…

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  106. Shenzhen Portal Logo

    A logo for Stratum 0’s storage system for electronic components, the Shenzhen Portal.

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  107. Elymas Logo

    A logo for Drahflow’s stack-based programming language Elymas, which is unholy and full of magic.

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  108. MRMCD17 CTF: "Sanity Check"

    At MRMCD17, Bine, Maxi and I participated in our first Capture The Flag event ever. I wanted to do a quick writeup of how we solved the Sanity Check challenge from the “Misc” category. The description of this challenge read as follows: Participants were supposed to enter a flag in the text box at the…

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  109. Richterfenster

    Entry in the pixel art compo of Evoke 2017. While the original window in the Cologne Cathedral has 72 colors, this one was only allowed to use a given 8-color palette.

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  110. Ten Little Letters

    This game was a very small-scope entry for Ludum Dare 39, created during a sick day in Montreál. In contrast to my past participations, this was a solo entry, so I chose the “hard” ruleset, where you have to create the whole game from scratch, including sounds and music. In the comments, the game was…

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  111. What happened when we offered Free Hugs to people

    How do people react when you hold up a sign labelled “Free Hugs” in public? A friend and I wanted to find out. We had both heard of Juan Mann, who started his Free Hugs Campaign in 2004. Also, we had already encountered other people doing this, and we discovered that we both had wanted to try it ourselves…

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  112. No Way Out

    This is a song of beginnings. Most importantly, it’s the first full real song I’ve ever created. It’s also the first chiptune I made, and the first track I produced using SunVox! I surely learned a lot while making it! But it sounds rather dark, so I gave it a depressing name! :P You can listen to it…

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  113. Low poly snail

    Inspired by @nori_wrap’s low poly art.

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  114. Wikidata Guessr

    At the Wikidata-Wahldaten-Workshop in 2017, I made this guessing game. It works a bit like Geoguessr, but it’s powered by open data from Wikidata: You get a picture, and need to guess where on the Earth the depicted object is! To generate the quiz, I sample from all Wikidata objects that have both a…

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  115. Potterbot

    @potterbot is a Twitter bot using so-called Markov chains to generate random new lines. I fed it the complete text corpus of all seven Harry Potter books. When I set it up, I was mostly thinking of generating funny lines, but a surprising thing has happened: A friend of mine has started replying to the…

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  116. Font quiz for Anki

    This is a set of flashcards for the popular open-source spaced repetition software Anki, which will teach you to identify the most popular typefaces. It showcases over 45 fonts, each with a short history and a list of defining characteristics. Here is an example card: The basis for these flashcards is…

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  117. Ampersand jam

    TQ & Pecca made me aware of the Saint J&an event hosted by the open source foundry Velvetyne. It was both a workshop held in Paris, as well as a location-independent design event, where participants could create & submit their “contemporary ampersand” designs. You can click on the images below to download…

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  118. A Bloody Small World

    This is our contribution Ludum Dare 38. This time, I was part of a four-person team together with Pecca, Winnie, and Moritz. We built a little, hectic racing game! Only an event like Ludum Dare gets me into a flow-like state which allows me to work on something without interruptions for 16 hours straight…

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  119. #woollyweek

    TL;DR: We invite you to join us for a Mastodon-exclusive week! Starting this Monday, 2017-04-24 at 0:00 UTC, log out of all your Twitter clients, and don’t log back in for a week. You might have heard of the Mastodon social network, it’s an open-source, decentralized, community-built alternative to Twitter…

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  120. Let it go...

    Drawn when I migrated from Twitter to the open-source alternative Mastodon for a week. See this thread on why I did that: Loading tweet...

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  121. Fünf Tage mit dem Teufel

    Dies ist eine Übersetzung von Joe Edelmans Essay Five Days with the Devil. Wenn ihr könnt, lest das Original! Was dich erwartet: Ein Gedankenexperiment. Wie menschliche Werte verlorengehen. Und: Eine neue Perspektive auf den momentanen politischen Aufruhr (Trump, Brexit, Terrorismus, und so weiter).…

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  122. Avoiding Slippery Slopes

    A “Get Well Soon” card for Rohieb in the style of a fake O’Reilly book. It’s all a giant in-joke, I can’t even begin to explain.

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  123. Pacifion

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  124. Der Weg zur Weisheit

    Dies ist eine Übersetzung von Joe Edelmans Essay When Wisdom Comes, das mich sehr berührt und geprägt hat. Wenn ihr könnt, lest das Original! Herzlichen Dank an rixx, Pecca und Wolfgang für’s Korrekturlesen! Gefühle werden oft missverstanden. Sogar von Psychologen, Philosophen und Neurowissenschaftlern…

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  125. Wikimedia Sustainability Initiative logo

    A logo to support the efforts of moving the Wikimedia servers to green energy, based on an idea by Gnom. Variant with “Wikimedia”: Full, centered version on transparent background: Square version on white background, use when the full version would leave too much whitespace in a square: Sticker version…

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  126. Screw this.

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  127. Disconnect

    This was in parts inspired by Gravity’s marvellous womb scene.

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  128. Voctocat logo

    A logo for media.ccc.de, the video/audio archive of the Chaos Computer Club and for the CCC Video Operation Center (C3VOC). It depicts a lucky cat, which has been the mascot of the C3VOC for quite a while: They place lucky cats in the scenes to be recorded for testing pur(r)poses, to make sure the video…

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  129. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Mandelbrot Set

    This is a work-in-progress interactive explanation. I'd love feedback! You can reach me at @blinry or s">ebastian@morrmailto:">.cc.Maybe you've seen an image of the Mandelbrot Set before. It's trippy, it's wonderous, it's beautiful. Here it is, have a look:Click to zoom.The Mandelbrot Set is a so-called…

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  130. Emergency Card Template

    I originally created this emergency and organ donation card in 2012. Recently, I gave it an update to translate it to English and make it as international as possible otherwise. I figured it might be useful for other people, so I’m providing a template here. Click on the image to open the SVG, you can…

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  131. Nifflers don't only love shiny things!

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  132. Earth Balloon

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  133. Holy Coffee

    Just dabbling around a bit with Krita…

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  134. nordlichtbot

    @nordlichtbot is a Twitter bot which picks a random YouTube video every few hours, runs the nordlicht tool on it and tweets the result. It’s currently used as an experimentation platform for new features, as a lazy CI framework and as a gallery of computer generated art. Here’s an example tweet: Loading…

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  135. A QA engineer walks into a bar...

    This is my first attempt to draw an analogue comic since a long time. The text is based on a tweet by Bill Sempf, and published here with his permission. For non-software people: QA means quality assurance. The tweet sparked many more ideas on what the engineer could order, you can find an overview on…

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  136. Fairy Dust

    Hackerspaces: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the rocket Fairy Dust. Its one-year mission: to explore strange new technology, to seek out new life forms and new convention centers, to boldly go where no congress has gone before. The visual style of this animation is a reference to Nyan Cat…

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  137. Goodbye, CCH

    For five years, the Congress Centrum in Hamburg, Germany has been the venue for the annual Chaos Communication Congress, a four-day conference for hackers, artists, and open-minded folk. The building was opened in 1973, and while it is a little antiquated by now, its charm was loved by many. In 2017…

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  138. Was ist das für 1 Room?

    This was my contribution to the game jam Ludum Dare 37, and my third participation in a row. The theme was “One Room”, and we worked in a three-person team. We also had to do this half-remotely, as I was still in Japan at the time, but that worked out pretty well! This turned out to be the most popular…

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  139. Pixel Art Workshop

    This is a workshop I’m regularly giving at Chaos events. The first iteration took place at Hackover 2016. Here’s a recording of the “theoretical part” from the 34th Chaos Communication Congress: Slides The 8x8 pixel characters are by Johan Vinet. You can also download the source .ase file for the presentation…

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  140. 20,000 Pixels Into the Sea

    My second participation in a game jam, Ludum Dare 36. This time, I was part of a two-person team, which was crazily fun! The theme was “Ancient Technology”, and we made a sailing game, which semi-realistic wind mechanics! You sail around, rescue people, and discover some secrets! If you ever wanted to…

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  141. Master's Thesis: Split Packing

    This page links to a number of scientific texts, which all were a result of my 2016 Master’s Thesis: The thesis itself (which is the most complete version), a paper presented at SODA ‘17, a paper presented at WADS 2017, and a journal article which appeared in the Discrete & Computational Geometry journal…

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  142. EU-Haiku

    A Pan-European haiku, containing one word in an official language from all EU countries: Viens du trei four cúig. Un dva tre vier pet seis hét. Üks tnejn τρεις dört pięć. I didn’t manage to get in Luxembourgish, but they also use French and German. Finnish has no one-syllable numbers :-D, but they also…

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  143. You're a Floor Lamp Now

    This is my contribution to Ludum Dare 35, the world’s largest game jam. You get a theme, and have 48 hours to create a game around this topic, from scratch, including artwork and sound effects. This was my first time ever I participated in such an event, and I don’t think it will be the last! :-) This…

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  144. Sand Child

    In late 2015, Twitter introduced the functionality to create polls. Jokingly, I wrote a “Choose Your Own Adventure”-style tweet and gave the readers two options on how the story should continue. When the series got more popular than I had imagined, I kept it running for over a month. Below, you can read…

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  145. sike mama

    This is a translation of Andy Weir’s beautiful short story The Egg to a constructed language called Toki Pona, which has a vocabulary of only 120 words and a very simple grammar. Miv was so kind to patiently go over a preliminary version of this text and to fix all of my silly mistakes. Thanks! Andy…

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  146. Stilles Wasser im Blindtest

    Blindtests sind toll! Ich habe in der Vergangenheit schon Blindtests von Vollmilchschokoladen, Colasorten und Koffeinbrausen gemacht. Vor einigen Wochen stieß ich dann auf diesen Tweet von dome, in dem es um die Verkostung von stillem Wasser ging. Ich beschloss, einen ähnlichen Test durchzuführen, denn…

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  147. Zitat-Sammlung

    Ein paar über viele Jahre gesammelte Zitate. Die englischen findest du hier. Für den, der hinschaut Sehen die Berge Jeden Tag anders aus — Zufalls-Gedichts-Generator Nicht durch Zorn, sondern durch Lachen tötet man. — Nietzsche Der Mensch sollte sich immer als ein Experiment der Natur betrachten. — Friedrich…

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  148. Quote collection

    Some quotes, collected over the course of many years. You can find some german ones here. Time flies like a river. Fruit flies like a banana. — unknown Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils… — Louis Hector Berlioz If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would…

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  149. LilyPond vs earworms

    If an earworm gets too bad, I sometimes try to get rid of it by typesetting the melody in LilyPond, a high-quality music engraving program. Can you find out what all of these are? Solutions below. Loading tweet... Loading tweet... Loading tweet... These are the themes from “Path of The Wind” (from My…

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  150. Managing paper with manila folders

    I’ve previously written about how I manage digital notes. This article is about my approach to organizing and storing physical paper documents. Granted, this sound like an incredibly boring, bureaucratic topic, but this is a personal story of disentanglement and simplification. Wait and see :-) Approximately…

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  151. Exact Minkowski Sums of Polygons With Holes

    This is the first “real” scientific paper which I coauthored. It’s about the design and implementation of an algorithm which computes the so called Minkowski sum of two polygons. I like to explain the topic like this: Imagine you have two stamps of arbitrary shape. First, you stamp one of them on paper…

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  152. Esoteric Programming Languages

    This was a fun overview paper written in my university seminar “Programming languages through the ages”. I was very lucky to receive the awesome topic Esoteric Programming Languages! :-) In the paper and the accompanying talk, I give an overview of the languages Brainfuck, INTERCAL, Befunge, Malbolge…

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  153. nom

    URL: http://github.com/blinry/nom Helps you lose weight by tracking your energy intake and creating a negative feedback loop.

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  154. Novena logo

    A logo design for the open-hardware computer Novena. It was one of 124 logo submissions. The “claw” is a reference to the Open Source Hardware logo. Here are some older designs: Loading tweet... Loading tweet...

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  155. Freifunk, executive summary

    Ich habe mir vor zwei Wochen Freifunk genauer angeguckt, und möchte euch hier mal zusammenfassen, was ich gelernt habe. Die Grundidee ist, in einer Stadt viele WLAN-Router aufzustellen, die sich untereinander vermeshen und so ein dezentrales (unzensier- und -drosselbares) Kommunikationsmedium bilden…

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  156. Bachelorarbeit, Woche 21: LaTeX-Tipps und Abgabe!

    Am Donnerstag habe ich die Bachelorstudiengangsabschlussbescheinigung abgegeben, yay! Die letzten Wochen war noch recht viel zu tun, weshalb ich das Gefühl hatte, mir keine Zeit für einen ausführlichen Blogpost nehmen zu können. Heute berichte ich von der Arbeit selbst, in einem kommenden Post dann noch…

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  157. The Nut Shell

    URL: http://github.com/blinry/nutsh A framework for creating interactive command line tutorials, inspired by text adventures.

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  158. Bachelor Thesis: The Nut Shell

    In my bachelor thesis, I designed and implemented a framework for creating interactive command line tutorials, called The Nut Shell. Here you can find the final thesis and the presentation: I posted the LaTeX source code of the thesis online – you are welcome to steal stuff from it! While writing the…

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  159. Bachelorarbeit, Woche 13: Gliederung

    Blick zurück So, der Vorkurs lief gut, die Teilnehmer schienen mir recht glücklich mit der Nut Shell, ich habe viel positives Feedback bekommen. Ich habe eine kleine Umfrage durchgeführt, um Spaß und Lernfortschritt quantifizieren zu können, die Ergebnisse werde ich in den kommenden Wochen hier veröffentlichen…

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  160. Bachelorarbeit, Woche 11: Vorkurs beginnt!

    Nur ganz kurz: Heute beginnt der Vorkurs! Ich bin so gespannt, ob alles klappt! Die letzen Wochen habe ich wirklich viel geschuftet, damit heute alles schön ist. Wer mitmachen möchte, kann sich die kurze Installationsanleitung geben. Ihr braucht einen Go-Compiler und Git. Und Linux, natürlich. Getestet…

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  161. Bachelorarbeit, Woche 9: DSL-Syntax

    Der letze Eintrag ist nun schon eine ganze Weile her, höchste Zeit für ein Statusupdate! Sprache Die Sprache, in der man Tutorials verfassen kann, nenne ich nutsh, in Analogie zur Nut Shell. Sie ist viele Iterationen durchlaufen, bis ich etwas fand, was mir mächtig genug erscheint, möglichst einfach…

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  162. Bachelorarbeit, Woche 3: Erstes Skripting

    Literatur Ich war letzte Woche in der Unibibliothek. Wissen ist Macht! Coole Entdeckung waren insbesondere die Tagungsbände der International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, von der ich noch nie etwas gehört hatte. Außerdem das klassische “Drachenbuch” über Compilerbau sowie Grundlagen…

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  163. Bachelorarbeit, Woche 2: Maschinenraum

    Heute mit Kommandozeilen-Tokenizern, Test Driven Development und Bytes auf Papier. Ich habe mich während der letzen zwei Wochen weiter intensiv mit Strategien beschäftigt, bei normaler, möglichst unverfälschter Kommandozeileninteraktion die Bestandteile “Befehl” und “Ausgabe” herauszulesen und bin jetzt…

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  164. nordlicht

    URL: http://nordlicht.github.io

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  165. Bachelorarbeit, Woche 0: Themenvorstellung und Prototyping

    Heute mit: PDF-Präsentations-Software, ehrlichem Feedback, Zeitplanung, Anfängen des Shell-Wrappers und dem Führen eines Logbuchs. Themenvorstellung Letzten Montag habe ich den Themenvorstellungs-Vortrag vor meiner Erstprüferin und einigen Institutsmitarbeitern gehalten. Ich verlinke hier nochmal die…

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  166. Bachelorarbeit, Woche -1: Zukunftspläne

    Nanu? Im letzten Blogpost schrieb ich doch noch, diese Woche würde die Arbeit angemeldet? Ja, aber wegen Terminüberschneidungen wurde das noch eine Woche nach hinten geschoben. Also, Woche -1. Was habe ich gemacht? Präsentation zur Themenvorstellung Am Institut, an dem ich die Arbeit schreibe, ist es…

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  167. How to blog with nanoc

    This is a follow-up to “History of morr.cc”. I’d like to show you how this blog is created using the fantastic static site generator “nanoc”. Why would you want static sites? To be short: Simplicity, security, speed. OK, how does it work? You can look at this blog’s source code on GitHub. The content…

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  168. Why you might like DuckDuckGo

    DuckDuckGo is an alternative search engine. I’ve made it my default search recently. Let me tell you about the differences to Google, Bing and the like – and why you should care. Privacy concerns Search leakage Normally, when you click on a link, the browser transmits the URL you came from to the visited…

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  169. Bachelorarbeit, Woche -2: Grundidee

    In den kommenden Monaten möchte ich hier über den Entstehungsprozess meiner Bachelorarbeit berichten. Das soll mich zu einer strukturierten, kontinuierlichen Arbeitsweise motivieren – und vielleicht ist es auch ganz unterhaltsam zu lesen, in welche Fallen und Probleme ich so laufe. :-P Das Thema geistert…

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  170. Keeping a personal wiki

    In this article, I’d like to show you which tools I use to keep a personal wiki and what I do with it. Short history I’ve been keeping text files about personal stuff since 2007. It started with a diary, but expanded to several text files soon (todo, ideas, quotes, …). They contained indented lists,…

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  171. History of morr.cc

    2005: Plain HTML Sometime about 2005, I tought myself HTML (with the formerly great site SELFHTML) and created my first home page, with lots of tags and primary colors… It had very premature content and I remember it displaying a “construction site” GIF the whole time it was online. I used the webspace…

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  172. RoboBoy

    URL: http://github.com/blinry/roboboy

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  173. Seminar talk: Stitch Meshes

    For a computer graphics seminar, I and presented Cam Yuksel et al.’s (awesome) paper Stitch Meshes for Modeling Knitted Clothing with Yarn-level Detail: I also designed a website which contains a short summary of the paper.

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  174. almightree

    clear almightree What is it? A Javascript plugin for jQuery >= 1.8.0 It makes large nested lists (like this one) easier to navigate Yep, it powers this page! Free Software (GPLv2+) You can find the source code on GitHub Features Folding/Unfolding Click on a node to fold or unfold it, if it has children…

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  175. Vimboy

    URL: http://github.com/blinry/vimboy

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  176. Git Cheat Sheet

    I originally made this to introduce some fellow students to Git for a group project, and updated it in 2014 for a Git introduction I gave to freshman students. Want the SVG to modify it for your own purposes? I’ve got you covered! The fonts are Bevan and Courier New.

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  177. informatiCup 2012: PacMap

    PacMap is a little Android game that combines elements of Geocaching with those of crossword puzzles. It was written in the beginning of 2012 with Sandra Hesse and Felix Geilert. It’s our contribution to the informatiCup 2012 competition, where we reached the fourth place. You can read the (german) documentation…

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  178. git-hydra

    URL: http://github.com/blinry/git-hydra

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  179. 28C3: Tag 4

    Programm heute: bup, ein auf Git basierendes Backup-System. Im Rahmen der Lightning Talks gab es ein paar Vorträge über die r0ket, unter anderem nochmal ein leicht verbessertes Massively-Multiplayer-Pong, bei dem ich jetzt mitspielen konnte. Ein anderes Team hat ein Dating-Programm geschrieben, dass…

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  180. 28C3: Tag 3

    Der durchschnittliche Congressteilnehmer, den ich hier mal Christian nennen möchte, ist männlich (hier ist ein gefühlter Frauenanteil von 5 Prozent) und um die 30. Pferdeschwänze sieht man viele, sie bilden aber nicht die Mehrheit, Christian hat kurze braune Haare. Eine Brille hat er auch nicht. Christian…

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  181. 28C3: Tag 2

    Heute berichte ich sehr spät, Mitternacht ist schon vorbei. Irgendwie habe ich mir heute keine Zeit zwischendurch genommen. Ich sitze in Saal 1 und sehe den Jeopardy-Leuten beim Aufbauen zu. Ich habe mich heute näher mit der r0ket beschäftigt. Es war noch eine Test-Firmware drauf, die ausschließlich…

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  182. 28C3: Tag 1

    Nachmittag. Ich hab mir einen gemütlichen Platz im Basement gesucht, mit Strom- und Kabelnetzversorgung und kann ein bisschen dokumentieren. Heute morgen bin ich gegen Zehn im bcc aufgeschlagen. Vor dem Gebäude wehen Pesthörnchen-Flaggen (google it), eine einige Meter hohe “Fairy Dust”-Rakete wurde aufgebaut…

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  183. 28C3: Tag 0

    Mit einem prall gestopften großen Rucksack und einem kleinem Rucksack, in dem ein süßer Stoffbär sitzt, mache ich mich auf den Weg zu meinem ersten Chaos Communication Congress, dem 28C3. Das Packen war am Ende doch noch hektisch geworden, ich führe mindestens 9 Kabel und 6 Geräte mit, zur fachlichen…

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  184. Mem Advent Calendar

    URL: http://advent.morr.cc

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  185. Pong 1D

    Inspired by the movie Flatland, I wrote this one-dimensional game. For those who don’t know this movie (go watch it, seriously!), let me briefly explain the concept: Pong, as you know it, is a two-dimensional game: Everything happens in a flat plane. Now imagine you were one of the paddles - you’d see…

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  186. Aufsatz: Der Rechenschieber

    Im Rahmen der Vorlesung Geschichte technischer Hilfsmittel in der Mathematik schrieb ich diesen kurzen Aufsatz über Entwicklung, Funktionsweise und heutige Bedeutung des Rechenschiebers:

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  187. Dozentensprüche

    Gesammelte Dozentensprüche aus 5 Jahren Informatikstudium an der TU Braunschweig. Marten “Nech?” “Das ist natürlich klar.” “Vektoren in der Schule als Kohärenzklassen von Pfeilen darzustellen, sollte man unter Strafe stellen!” “Ihre Nasenspitzen sind in R³!” “Das Lambda sieht aus wie ne Giraffe” “Wenn…

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  188. Stratum 0 logo

    This is by far my most popular and widely-used logo up to this point. When Stratum 0, a Hackerspace in Braunschweig was founded, we started a logo contest, which generated a large body of rather nice logos! But one of my suggestions won: It has been described as “runic”, and works quite well in low resolutions…

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  189. Four Eyed Monster

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  190. Java-Applet: Mandelbrot-Menge

    Ich lese gerade den New Turing Omnibus, ein Buch, das grundlegende Themen der Informatik vorstellt. In einem Kapitel geht es um Fraktale, genauer: Die Mandelbrot-Menge. Ich konnte nicht anders, als den Algorithmus zu implementieren. Das Ergebnis ist atemberaubend. Applet öffnen Bei etwa 100-Trillionen…

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  191. Programme abschießen mit xkill

    xkill ist ein Linux-Programm, mit dem man bockige Fenster abschießen kann. Fühlt sich an wie ein Ego-Shooter! Wenn der Browser sich mal wieder an einem Javascript aufgehängt hat, und alles Hämmern auf den Schließen-Knopf nicht hilft, kommt xkill to the rescue! Man führt es aus, klickt auf das böse Fenster…

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  192. SCHUFA-Selbstabfrage

    Dadurch, dass es mir bei einer Online-Bestellung untersagt wurde, per Rechnung zu bezahlen, wurde ich auf die SCHUFA aufmerksam. Das ist ein Unternehmen, das auf den Personendaten von drei Vierteln der Deutschen sitzt und für jeden davon einschätzt, wie wahrscheinlich es ist, dass er seine Rechnung nicht…

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  193. Frauen ernähren sich von Schuhen!

    Eine Busgeschichte, die erklärt, warum viele Frauen den Hang zum Ansammeln von Schuhen haben: Sie ernähren sich davon! Ich höre einen Gesprächsfetzen von hinten mit. Offenbar unterhalten sich zwei junge Männer über ihre Freundinnen. Man denke sich die türkische Betonung dazu. “Sag mal, isst deine auch…

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  194. Schneller Service

    Die Postbank stellt zum Testen ihres Onlinebanking-Angebotes einen Demo-Account unter dem Namen “Petra Pfiffig” zur Verfügung. Dort kann man alle Funktionen ausprobieren und sieht Beispiel-Transaktionen. In der Nachrichtenbox fand ich etwas, was nur oberflächlich nach gutem Service aussieht!

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  195. Der Mann mit dem Schlüsselbund

    Als ich heute vom Brötchenholen wiederkam, stand vor der Tür zum Gebäude ein Mann, den ich noch nie gesehen hatte. Auch er hatte eine Brötchentüte in der Hand und fummelte mit einem Schlüsselbund herum. Offenbar probierte er jeden Schlüssel aus und fand nicht den richtigen. Er hörte meine Schritte, drehte…

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  196. Qu'est-ce que c'est?

    Wer’s weiß, kriegt nen Preis.

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  197. 50 vs. 100 Hertz

    Bei mir steht seit letzter Woche ein neuer Fernseher. Bei meiner intensiven Beschäftigung mit Fernsehtechnik in der letzten Zeit hatte ich ein paar “Aha”-Erlebnisse, die ich mit dir teilen möchte. Als erstes erkläre ich, was der Unterschied zwischen Bildschirmen mit 50 und 100 Hertz ist, denn da gibt…

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  198. Mich gibt's bei Amazon

    In meinen Serverlogs tauchte als Referer eine Freenet-Suche nach mir auf. Und siehe da… Haha, und wenn man draufklickt: “Meinten Sie: sebastian mary?” - da wird einem dann unter anderem die CD “Schön entspannt 3” von “Brigitte Wellness” empfohlen. Ranking-Algorithmen sind schon ne Spezies für sich…

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  199. Finger print doorbell

    Another idea: “To enter the apartment, click HERE.”

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  200. 36 Cube gelöst!

    Gestern Abend habe ich mit Jan den 36 Cube gelöst. Es geht darum, 36 Plastik-Türmchen in verschiedenen Farben und Größen so auf einem Brett anzuordnen, dass in jeder Reihe und Spalte jede Farbe genau einmal vorkommt - und die Türmchen auf der gleichen Höhe abschließen (es gibt eine Online-Version davon…

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  201. Google-Rekursion

    Du kennst bestimmt die Korrekturfunktion von Google. Wenn du ein Wort falsch schreibst, schlägt die Suchmaschine eifrig vor: “Meinten Sie: …?” Da kannst du dann draufklicken und Google sucht nach dem korrigierten Wort. So weit so praktisch. Ich verwende die Funktion gerne, wenn ich mir nicht sicher bin…

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  202. Engel-Karte

    Meine Weihnachtskarte aus dem Jahr 2009. Klick auf das Bild, um die Karte aufzuklappen.

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  203. Kernel-Flüche

    Wusstest du, dass sich im Linux-Kernel ganz schön viele Flüche befinden? Sehr unterhaltsam! Du brauchst den Quellcode des Kernels (in Ubuntu/Debian gibt’s ein Paket namens linux-source, das den Kernel ins Verzeichnis /usr/src legt). Dann gibst du folgende Befehle ein: cd /tmp tar xvf /usr/src/linux-source…

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  204. Piratenpartei Braunschweig logo

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  205. Kiel Panorama

    This panorama photo was taken in summer 2010 on a vacation in Kiel. I like how the natural, green beach slowly fades into the industrial, human made, gigantic ship dock. Warning: This image is 21 MB large. It could take a while to load. First activate your fullscreen mode (F11), then click on the link…

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  206. Waldi in Gefahr

    Eine wahre Geschichte aus der Serie ‘Neulich im Bus’ Im hinteren Teil des Busses sitzt eine ältere Omma. Sie hat standestypische Stricksachen und einen breiten Schal an und ist beladen mit Einkaufstüten. Begleiter: Ein kleines braunes Hundchen. Seinen Namen kenne ich noch nicht, aber den werde ich bald…

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  207. Rätsel: Wie viele Beine?

    Eine Rätselaufgabe, die meine Tante mir vor einiger Zeit stellte. Und meine Antwort. In einem Bus befinden sich 7 Kinder. Jedes Kind hat 7 Rucksäcke. In jedem Rucksack sind 7 große Katzen. Jede große Katze hat 7 kleine Katzen. Wie viele Beine sind im Bus? Ich löse die Aufgabe unter der Voraussetzung…

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  208. Screamie

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  209. Abi 09 logo

    Translation: “To hell with Pisa, it’s not our tower.” Was created for a T-shirt when I finished high school.

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  210. Bundeswettbewerb Informatik

    Ich habe an drei Runden des Bundeswettbewerbs Informatik teilgenommen (in den Jahren 2009 und 2010). Hier möchte ich meine Lösungen veröffentlichen, vielleicht können kommende Teilnehmer daraus lernen. 2010 war ich außerdem Teilnehmer der Endrunde.

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  211. Ubucon 2008 logos

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  212. Facharbeit: Künstliche neuronale Netze

    Im 12. Jahrgang schrieb ich meine Facharbeit zum Thema Künstliche neuronale Netze. Diese Arbeit stellte ich außerdem in einem Referat vor:

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  213. Freie Software: Eine Analogie

    Mithilfe einer Analogie kann man sehr anschaulich erklären, was Freie Software ist. Es werden nur wenige alltägliche Elemente benötigt, an denen man jedoch viele Sachverhalte erklären kann. Gerade für technisch weniger Versierte sollte dieses Modell hilfreich sein. Ein Kochrezept: Ein Rezept entspricht…

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  214. Aufruf: Benutzt Jabber!

    Hallo! Ich bin der Sebastian! Und ich erklär euch heute, wie man sich übers Internet unterhalten sollte und wie nicht. Ihr kennt doch alle ICQ. Dieses bunte Programm zum chatten. Haben eure Freunde ja auch. Aber, was ihr vielleicht nicht wisst: ICQ ist sehr, sehr böse. Kann man hier alles nachlesen.…

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  215. Kalauer-Sammlung

    Sagt die Null zur Acht: Schöner Gürtel! Warum ham die Araber ka Brot? Weils ka Mehl haben! Treffen sich zwei Jäger: Beide tot! Ich gehe nicht zu seiner Beerdigung, er geht auch nicht zu meiner… Was ist ein Keks unter einem Baum? Ein schattiges Plätzchen! Was sind die Steigerungsformen von imposant? Im…

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  216. Kunstprojekt "Babel"

    Diese Fotoserie entstand in der zehnen Klasse. Es stellt in achtzehn Bildern zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen mit Büchern dar. Ich habe auch eine Reflexion über die Entstehung geschrieben. Freudschaft Liebe Familiensinn Disziplin Ueberwachung Bedrohung Furcht Hass Ausgrenzung Bedrohung Misshandlung Trauer…

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  217. Simpsons-Zitate

    Zitate aus der gelbsten Fernsehserie der Welt. Gesammelt während meiner intensiven Simpsons-Phase um 2005 herum. Homer: “Tut mir nichts, ich hab Frau und Kinder! Tötet die!” Grampa: “Ich mach jeden Test mit, den ihr wollt: Sehtest, Hörtest, Erinnerungstest, Erinnerungstest, …” (Dokumentarfilm): “Mach…

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  218. Was man alles mit einem Backstein machen kann

    Vor vielen Jahren gingen wir im Klassenforum der 9c der Frage nach, was man alles mit einem Backstein machen kann. Hier die gesammelten Ergebnisse! 1 Gegen Türen werfen 2 Drauf sitzen 3 aus dem fenster werfen 4 papier drumm wickeln 5 gegen Bauch werfen 6 gegen Kopf werfen 7 In eine Menschenmenge werfen…

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  219. The Mork

    One my oldest digital works I still have. A stop motion video, made around 2001, filmed with the Lego Camera that came with the Lego Mindstorms Vision Command kit! The content was probably inspired by the Plonsters. The video file is named Mork.avi, so I assume that was supposed to be the character’s…

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