Hello there!I used to be a full time VFX artist working as compositor, 3D artist, producer and supervisor.
These days I am mostly home-bound due to health reasons, so my focus is mostly on tending to my family as the resident cook and doing the occasional remote work for film and TV projects.
You can find my work history on IMDB or LinkedIn and I do have a rather old showreel on Vimeo. Apart from that, this is my online home. Feel free to get in touch via email or on Micro.blog.
And as I slip into bed, I realize, it is indeed Friday the 13th. Good night.
Petition zur Widerspruchsregelung für Organspenden
Im Augenblick ist eine Petition am laufen die sich für eine Widerspruchslösung für Organspende einsetzt. Als jemand der auf ein neues Organ wartet, wäre ich für jede Unterschrift persönlich dankbar.
Je mehr Menschen die Petition unterstützen, desto größer ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass sie Erfolg hat.
Hier könnt ihr mehr erfahren und unterzeichnen:
→Widerspruchsregelung für Organspenden
Vielen Dank!
Alexander
This weekend we had our little Christmas market in Geinsheim. MY wife had a stand to inform about the Bewegungspark project and it was a great success. Lots of people came by to get informed about the project and its status. Lots of donations. And overall great feedback.
Want to read: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell 📚
No idea why people constantly fiddle with cross-posting and what to post to which service. Seems like a whole lot of busywork to me.
I get that different people have different needs. I for one am perfectly happy with the way Micro.blog works. I have enabled cross-posting and it just works.
The only thing actually broken for me is iOS notifications. I simply don’t get any.
I now have my own Python module to write Safari WebArchives. Neat. And not too hard to implement.
So now Links also saves a WebArchive copy and triggers a Wayback savepoint.
Would you believer it? Not a single mention since I installed the Micro.blog beta build with a fix for notifications. Help me out here folks. Give me some love.
I rewrote my webcatcher Python script yesterday. It is now leaner, meaner and more resilient against failed downloads. Links is coming together nicely. Pretty much all that is left is a nicer CSS for mobile devices and a web daemon so I can send stuff to Links from my iPhone.
Trying to decide between Trafilatua, Newspaper 4K and Readabilty for my Markdown and PDF creation.
Links Update
Links, my barebones bookmark and archival solution is slowly getting better.
Today I redid the CSS or started to. I still need to reimplement breakpoints for smaller devices.
Also I finally put the project under Git version control. Version control really is a godsend. The initial learning curve is not nothing. But once you get it, it’s awesome.
I still need to polish the Python script a bit and make it more error resilient. And then I need to set up a web service for it so I can add links easily via iOS Shortcut.
Slowly getting there. Bit by bit.
Please help me find good anime
My son is into anime these days. But he’s watching what I can only describe as garbage.
Either it’s Pokémon style stuff like Hunter x Hunter. People standing around discussing attack modifiers and just a whiff off a story.
Or it’s full bosomed schoolgirls giggling into the camera.
Are there no modern anime with proper story and at least a modicum of style?
In my day I was watching stuff like Princess Mononoke, Ninja Scroll or Vampire Hunter D to name a few. Is there nothing liked that out there today on Amazon Prime or Crunchyroll?
And boom goes the FDP.
I spent most of today setting up Sublime Text and PyLint. Also researched what alternatives there are to Sphinx.
I also studied some of my old code to remember how to do things like setting up a proper logger and traceback.
It’s a little frustrating that I already knew all this once.
First version of Links is online! It is still missing a few things and needs more polish, but it works.
I just checked Links v1.0.0 into my Git repository. Almost ready to deploy!
Just a quick reminder that I have an Etsy store with unused designs from past projects. They make great presents for the holidays. Especially the gnome ones.
Also on orders of €50 or more you will get 25% off for the next two weeks.
Slow progress on Links today. I didn’t have much time and spent what little I had chasing syntax errors. Here’s to a more successful tomorrow. I’m planning on getting my delete function working, add per user link databases, and add a dummy links collection for when you are not signed in.
Programming can be really annoying when you are having a dense moment. I was searching for a syntax error for probably two hours all in all only to have someone else tell me I was missing a bracket somewhere. Sigh.
When someone sends me an audio message, my reply will always be to send me a text instead. I have no patience to listen to your rambling to parse what you want to say. Editing your thoughts into something meaningful worth sharing is your job. Not mine.