Stephan Max
Stephan Max
Stephan Max
My website is a personal website about all the little things that shape my existence; from the concerts I went to, over Creative Coding projects, to random thoughts on life and the people around me.
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Logseq has been my tool of choice for dumping, connecting, and re-reading notes since 2023-01-07. People call their personal knowledge base Second Brain, Digital Garden, Zettelkasten, or Brain Dump. I call mine Logbook and it plays a...
Dass sich einer der nervigsten Wurmfortsätze der Marketing-Maschinerie jetzt als korrupte Kackscheiße (via: Links von Dirk Hesse) herausstellt, überrascht mich nur milde. Die Rede ist vom unsäglichen SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Aufkleber,...
Die Mediatheken der Öffentlich-Rechtlichen führen regelmäßig richtig starke Film- und Serientitel in ihren Sammlungen. Alle, die ich selber auch wirklich schaue und als empfehlenswert erachte, sollen in dieser Notiz einen Platz bekommen....
Der Abend war nicht zu vergleichen mit der Machwerkschau vor einigen Wochen, denn nur einige wenige Räume waren offen. Auf J, A und mich wirkte es eher als ob wir ein recht intimes Treffen der Kölner Design-Bubble entern würden, aber...
As a January birthday boy, the calendar year is almost congruent with year of age, so I allow myself a couple more weeks for retrospection and good resolutions. But the world doesn’t wait! 2026 got off to a tumultuous start, and now that...
I treated myself to an early birthday present and bought the white Nothing Headphone (1). This is not a serious product review, mind you! I leave that to my Uberblogr neighbor Benedikt Müller, who also covered Nothing’s first-ever...
It seems these days my internet bubble is all about digital independence, the exodus from platforms run by fascist surveillance capitalists, and self-hosting. Right on! Mein Ausstieg aus dem Apple-Ökosystem (My Pull-Out From the Apple...
Pre-Christmas season is my time to retrospect, reflect, and reminisce. I didn’t plan on letting my mind wander back as far as November 2012, but I guess that’s what you get for browsing through old hard drives. Back then, I seem to have...
I had to re-install custom firmware on my PS Vita PCH-2000 series (PS Vita Slim) today because the console kept crashing after a couple of seconds into booting. Luckily, my official 64 GB PS Vita memory card seems to be fine, so I did...
Cineville asked for my top 5 favorite movies with a German theatrical release in 2025, and it was nice to scroll through my notes and come up with a list. Honorable Mentions I Like Movies (Canada, directed and written by Chandler Levack)...
Katharina ist Teil einer wunderbaren Gruppe von 25 Menschen, die seit einigen Jahren gemeinsam einen Adventskalender gestalten. Jede teilnehmende Person fertigt 24 mal eine Kleinigkeit an, so dass am Ende jeder einen Kalender mit 24...
This year, I had the honor of being one of three grantees of Processing Foundation’s pr05 (pronounced “pros”) program. My task was to develop a new Processing mode that allows to create and run p5.js sketches inside the Processing...
I’ve had one of those wonderfully serendipitous encounters today, that I wouldn’t have had if I wasn’t maintaining a personal website and wouldn’t be interested in other people’s websites: I went to the Discover section of Bear...
I use the almighty ffmpeg a lot to convert, edit, and tag my personal media. This is a living document of my most used command line recipes. Setting Metadata ffmpeg -i in.mkv -map 0 \ -metadata title="…" -metadata:s:v:0 title="…" \...
Mahr (Spindle Soundtrack) by spindle-adventure on Soundcloud Autumn time is gaming time and since I recently finished a handful of projects, I decided to treat myself to action-adventure Spindle. Developed by German indie studio Wobble...