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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Since I restarted this website, I have been struggling with choosing the right language. Obviously, I went for English so far, mostly because of the simple reason of wanting to get better at it. A secondary reason is that most of the resources for the tech content I write is in English anyway. And if you really want...
Let’s first define some vocabulary that I routinely mix up: GnuPG, also known as GPG—Gnu Privacy Guard—is a free implementation of the OpenPGP standard, also known as PGP—Pretty Good Privacy. I have been using GPG for years now, but never really understood what I was doing. It’s high time to change that, so I spent...
I watched See the Sound’s festival entry Michel Gondry: Do It Yourself! at Lichtspiele Kalk today; a fun and heartfelt documentary worthy of the marvelous and unique mind it centers. A short glimpse at the film’s teaser text and I knew this was for me: “Punk teenager dreaming of Méliès’ silent film Stop-Motion...
Since I saw the signpost for Schloss Burg (roughly translated as Castle Castle) a couple of years ago, I’ve been wanting to visit this medieval castle with the peculiar name. Today we did! After a half-hour drive from Cologne to Burg an der Wupper, we started with the short hike A8 and finished its 4.97km in 01:24h,...
I am navigating the Linux file system a lot over the day, and since I am still wary of using a fuzzy finder, I like to stay on top of where I am and how to move to recently visited directories quickly. The shell builtin cd offers some shortcuts, like cd bringing you to your home directory and cd - allowing you to...
I went to the movies today at Lichtspiele Kalk and watched Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. I had such a great time. Excellent film! It reminded me of a present a friend of mine had made for me some years ago for my birthday. Smaxx was and is my prominent nickname. Stephan Max. S. Max. Smax. It is pronounced like that guy...
I love stree art! It is rough, nonconformist, often spontaneous, and for me the quintessential way of expressing yourself in an urban context—that makes it beautiful for me. Naturally, I had to visit the exhibition/art trade event Straßengold (street gold) at Kulturbunker Mülheim. I am happy to have asked a good...
Ich habe mir heute noch fix eine der letzten kostenlosen Führungen in Kölns Historischem Rathaus gegönnt. Ab Juni kosten die ca. 60-minütigen Rundgänge dann zwischen 3 und 6 Euro, je nach Wochentag und Sprache. Die paar Euronen sind gut investiert—alleine schon um sich im im Renaissance-Stil wiederhergestellten...
After manually visualizing a GPX running track and inspired by Nathan Rooy’s fantastic Bike Exploring NYC project, I want to build a Python solution that does something similar. Scrape all my running activities from Garmin, convert them to SVG files, and display them on my website. I scripted everything inside a...
Cory Dransfeldt’s article It’s past time to delete your Reddit account reminded me of this overdue step. The Firefox bookmarklet of the PowerDeleteSuite worked great and deleted all my posts and comments before I waved goodbye. This made me think back at other accounts that I have abandoned in an attempt to minimize...
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