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About
Nearly two decades at the intersection of design and code. Guided by simplicity, structure, and the discipline of leaving things out.
AboutWork
I build interfaces that hold up under scrutiny — design systems, component libraries, and the invisible layer of decisions that makes a product coherent. For most of the last decade, that work was at XING, Europe's leading professional network.
See selected workWriting
Essays on design, code, philosophy, and the examined life. Published here since 2007.
Latest Essays
- The Golden Cage: Why I stopped trusting Apple’s software and started tinkering with Linux
- Dolomitgrau: The Car That Cost Me a Million Euros
- The Uniparty of the Maximal State: A Libertarian View of German Party Platforms
- A Design Engineer’s Guide to Agentic Coding: Six weeks rebuilding my website with Claude, Codex, and a team of subagents.
- From Bookmark to Brain: A streamlined pipeline that turns saved links into lasting knowledge
- Agentic Note-Taking: Transforming My Obsidian Vault with Claude Code
- 15 Years at XING: Reflections and a Farewell
- OK, Boomer: A Post-War Psychoanalysis
- From Typewriter to Split Keyboard: How I Fell in Love with Typing