Octahedron World

It was about 1998. I was studying architecture and was supposed to create my diploma project. The architecture professors at that time had been digital sceptics to say the least. Hand drawn drafts were the thing and had been valued high. But I just recently got in contact with website building and 3d animations. I was hooked and obviously I procrastinated into it.

Proudly, I made the output, a website with at that time cool latest shit: CSS. I don't know if you remember. But it was the time where table layouts ruled the world and spacing meant to add scaled transparent gif pixels. The site contained rendered images as well as a 30 second video of a virtual drone flight through my architectural concept.

I proudly handed my multi media showcase over as a burnt CD (together with the actual printed plans of course).

The point is: Already at that point I knew that I wanted to do that and I started to shift my focus right after the diploma. A made coding, my hobby and number one procrastination source, my job. Good for me, I guess. Because fast forward 25 years and I'm still doing it. Procrastinating all the time while being paid for. I can tell you this is the biggest luxury you can have.

Writing and other things

I still have hobbies other than coding.

• I am writing. Fiction, mostly. SciFi and Fantasy. And I also do that since the 20th century.
• I was into photography untill - oddly - my phone caught up with my camera. But I stll use it from time to time.

So some years ago, I decided to channel my creative output into a single place. I called it "Octahedron World".

That page brings together all the content I've been working on. Plus all the digital / coding experiments I've been doing over the years.

Sneak Peek

• Let's start with some of my favourite photos in the Photography section
• After looking at all of my unused AI Image generation output, I also found some beauty in it, which I collected in another section, called AI Worlds
• There's the Hermetics space, that covers my take on Urban Fantasy. Together with my wife I even managed to write a complete novel. That I still love very much.
• If you want a first glance into my music taste, there is PCSC, the Perfect Circle Song Contest. This is also by far the most complex section. I capture song votings via Raycast on my mac through Apple Script into an API endpoint that stores the result in a database and the frontend over there makes it queryable. More than 7000 songs and one current leader.

Technology

I rarely do anything without an aspect of learning in it. So I used this project especially for a lot of learning cases. And since its creation it went to four or five rewrites and redeploys.

Today, it uses Typescript (of course), Solid JS, Tailwind and a home made Markdown pipeline based on the unified stack (the packages for this - hast-mds and solid-mds - are freely available on npm).

Why here?

So why am I telling you all this?I think this principle defines me in many ways.

There's the Kaizen aspect of self improvement, trying things out in practice, learning from them, adapting.

There's also the little kick of creativity that always drives me, which I also bring in to my work.

And finally although I do all of this private stuff just to entertain myself, I'm also very proud of it, very open with it and therefore I want you to take a sneak peek yourself.

(I can't wait to have a Netflix AI one day, to which you hand over your 3 page short story and you get a nine episode mini series in return, ready to share with your friends)