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16 Bachelor of Design students at TH Nürnberg built a platformer in the faculty's project week. Only three had ever used a game engine before. Three days later, ten games were finished — solo or in small teams, all playable in any browser.

The most interesting part isn't the speed. It's what made it possible. Godot has become a solid open-source engine that students learn in hours rather than days. And the web has quietly grown into a remarkably universal free and open platform for interactive media — built on open standards, no media platforms or app stores in sights. WebAssembly lets compiled engines like Godot run in the browser at near-native speed. A finished game ships as a folder of HTML, WASM, and assets. You just send a URL. A good time to be designing digital things.

→ Full write-up, photos, all ten games: tilman.me/garden/Platformer+Game+Jam+2026

When I start writing, sometimes I go to the search engine on my website to see if I have written about a topic before. I did this when I was writing background; foreground. I had been thinking about the contrast between backgrounds and foregrounds for a while, so I wondered i...

In a way, I carry my website with me wherever I go. Technically, my website is a few keystrokes away on my phone, but I think the presence of my website extends beyond the technical. Having a website encourages me to write, I think, because I know I have a place to put and sh...

I made a new mix the other day. Mellow Drama. Today in the water phrases from some of the songs kept coming to me. The waves were fine. Unextraordinary. Still would not trade this random Tuesday with most other days.

The second episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 2, I chat with Alexandra, the author of xandra.cc, a founder and barista at the 32-Bit Cafe. We talk about, among other things, building indie web communities, communicating the possibilities of having a personal website to new audiences, and more. I hope you enjoy the episode! Wonders of Web Weaving has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.

Switching email providers (Tuta to Mailbox.org) meant setting up DNS and using new Android apps. Bitwarden is changing? Trying to update my CV with new tools.

You can now subscribe again to new posts on this microblog by JSON and RSS feed! (Need some help on feeds?)

I managed to squash some tricky bugs with the help of Claude code. Does that mean I can reactivate development of the Knot system? I don’t know …

Thanks go out to Daniel, who I met at IndieWebCamp three weeks ago. In a very friendly and supportive manner he introduced me to the embarrasing truth that my web feeds were utterly and completely broken. He knows a lot about feeds, because he runs FeedCity.

This is my entry to this month's Bear Blog Carnival, on the topic of our favourite thing in a niche hobby. Thank you for hosting, Kami! This was a fascinating topic to think about. Alternative Text My favourite typewriter is the one I have: a Royal typewriter, likely decades...

Here's an attempt to answer questions I get about why I don't use AI, and any more I could think of that may also arise. I'll try to get into it as honestly as possible, without just falling back on "it sucks and is bad" and leaving it at that.

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If you have not yet fired up Junior Senior’s “MOVE YOUR FEET” today this is your signal to do so. (YT) Sydney Sweeney was apparent giantized in the show Euphoria and it hit my transom and so I updated my Giant Women page. I am too old to watch the show Euphoria. I won’t think...

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