Public Alpha, Edible The carrot cake I shipped to production untested
Carrot cake with no butter and no oil, baked at 11pm from memory alone and served to an entire office before anyone had tasted it.
One language, all years Everything I wrote in English
116 posts. The rest of the archive is mostly German, which is what happens when you start a blog at nineteen and move countries later.
On Repeat, Regrettably A stranger in Hamburg rebuilt the Tomb Raider theme, twice
Tomb Raider theme, covered twice by German producer Ambyion - a 2021 remix, a 2025 rework, and one loop I cannot get out of.
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Four language models, four Age of Empires 2 strategy scripts, from scratch, no peeking at each other. They failed the same way: hoard villagers, send hunting parties halfway across the map, never bank enough to advance an age. Gemini never left the Dark Age. Four vendors, one set of bad instincts.
The real find is what Emergent Garden built after: an overnight loop where a model mutates the best script, runs a tournament against the previous winner and the built-in extreme AI, keeps what survives. Genetic programming with an LLM as the mutation operator instead of a coin flip. ≈15 USD of tokens, and it beat extreme – by a hair, with a bot he then stomps by walking cavalry around the back.
Commenters point at the ceiling: the game ships Direct Unit Control – loops, pointers, near-human micro – and the models barely used it.
Eggs, Beats And Paragraph 188 Merz leck Eier, or how a confiscated sign became a banger
Merz leck Eier went from a confiscated demo sign to a viral rap single, a Google Maps prank and an open prosecutor file - here is the story.
Words Nobody Asked For A kennel for maidens
German was argued into existence by people who mostly lost - four centuries of poets, pedants and purists building a language out loud.
Thirteen Years Later The better tomb, and the man who wouldn’t build it
Tomb Raider 2 is the better, rounder Tomb Raider - and the game its own creator refused to make. On levels, gunplay and the Lara hype machine.
Twenty-Five Megabytes Of Island Stranded 2 still eats weekends
Stranded 2 runs on Linux in 2026 - a 2007 freeware survival island, a lost weekend, and one German guy still building the sequel.
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For a couple of months now every terminal I own wears the same bar: coralline, a Powerlevel10k-inspired statusline for Claude Code. All segments on, tokyo-night, two lines. Branch and dirty state, the active model plus its effort level, the context window filling up, the 5h and 7d rate-limit gauges with their reset countdowns, session cost, session length. I have stopped guessing how close I am to a wall.
Run the installer yourself, or hand the playbook to Claude Code and let it interview you. The readme’s own trust section says a Claude that stops to inspect that playbook first is behaving correctly. It is. Read the script, then run it – trust is good, verification is better.
Needs jq and a Nerd Font, or VL_ASCII=1 without the font. Renders locally: no network calls, no tokens.
Grammar All The Way Down Then I found four pebbles
Ultrafinitism wants infinity banished from math - but every fix for infinity is just another grammar, and quantizing an 80B model shows why.
Class of 2005 F*CK YOU – two words, no argument
The bug in the system - Heartstopper landed 20 years too late for a queer kid at a Bavarian village school. Six years, two carved words, what came after.