To main content To menu

Timeline

Pixels, feelings, and the occasional existential detour. Luitpold-Alexander Zollorsch, blogging since before it was cringe. Since 2006.
Thirty years of wuseln – The Settlers 2 and the fan project that refuses to die

Two Flags Apart Thirty years of wuseln – The Settlers 2 and the fan project that refuses to die

The Settlers 2 turns 30 - a personal history from DOS to Sài Gòn, and the fan-made overhaul that keeps the Wusler bustling on modern machines.
EN· ·Published inNerdom & Games
Lemon meringue tart: A French recipe that traveled through Australia to land in Sài Gòn

Sister, Citrus, Continents Lemon meringue tart: A French recipe that traveled through Australia to land in Sài Gòn

Lemon meringue tart with a supply chain spanning three continents - a French recipe, an Australian sister, and a Vietnamese kitchen.
EN· ·Published inLife & Leisure
$100 billion and an excavator for an alarm clock

Living Inside the Game $100 billion and an excavator for an alarm clock

Ho Chi Minh City is building $100B+ in infrastructure simultaneously - metro lines, airports, highways, an entire new CBD, and a city reclaimed from the sea. A deep dive from someone whose bedroom window overlooks the chaos.
EN· ·Published inConcrete & Steel
I fed 15 years of my private conversations to an AI and asked it who I am – part 2

What The AI Found I fed 15 years of my private conversations to an AI and asked it who I am – part 2

Part 2: the AI analyzed 850K messages and 691 blog posts. What did it find? The results have been sitting with me since. Heavy stuff.
EN· ·Published inAI
I fed 15 years of my private conversations to an AI and asked it who I am – part 1

Feeding AI My Life I fed 15 years of my private conversations to an AI and asked it who I am – part 1

15 years of private chat messages fed to an AI. 850,982 messages, one question: Who am I? Part 1 - the method behind the madness.
EN· ·Published inAI
MURI: A DOS platformer that actually gets it

DOS Gets It Right MURI: A DOS platformer that actually gets it

MURI nails the early DOS platformer feel - EGA palette, PC speaker, chunky pixels. Thirty years late to its own era, still worth it.
EN· ·Published inNerdom & Games
The pumpkin bread that makes thirty degrees feel like Christmas

Tropical Christmas Bread The pumpkin bread that makes thirty degrees feel like Christmas

Pumpkin bread in Ho Chi Minh City's December - when 25 degrees feels like Christmas and the rainy season finally packs its bags.
EN· ·Published inLife & Leisure
Chocolate chili Plätzchen in Ho Chi Minh City’s December glow

Chili Plätzchen Tropisch Chocolate chili Plätzchen in Ho Chi Minh City’s December glow

Chocolate Chili Plätzchen while motorbikes hum outside in December Sài Gòn. Christmas baking at 30 degrees - a beautiful contradiction.
EN· ·Published inLife & Leisure
Nussecken: A Small German treat that somehow enriched Saigon

Nussecken In Saigon Nussecken: A Small German treat that somehow enriched Saigon

Nussecken - a German childhood pastry recreated in a tropical Sài Gòn kitchen. Hazelnut, chocolate, and 12,000 kilometers of nostalgia.
EN· ·Published inLife & Leisure
Illustration in the Sable / Mœbius style: a lone figure walks a winding forking path into a misty night desert-jungle lit by pools of magenta, cyan, violet and gold neon, a rainbow aurora ribboning across the dark sky toward a distant glowing sun.

AI Wrote My Kinks AI made me do it (but my kinks wrote the script)

Another song cooked up with Suno AI. Yes, AI slop. But hear me out - the kinks wrote the script, the machine just followed orders.
EN· ·Published inAI