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For many people, Dungeons & Dragons is still the system to go when it comes to roleplaying. Maybe you remember the times when you came together with some friends with just a pen, some paper and some dice and lived through an adventure of epic proportions. Far more exciting than any book or movie ever could tell the tale. Or maybe you just started and can't wait to get back to the table again. Over…
There is a big divide between people using LLMs and AI and people who object. We humans always seem to have this kind of phase that we have to go through with every change, every new technology. And it's very often, that technology gets overloaded with the interest or assumed interest of the people providing it. This is an important and necessary situation where we as human can have a moment of…
My posting discipline is always taking hits in summertime. This is my attempt to keep it up even if my schedule is broken. Have a great June! Inspiration Playing in unlikely places - a beautiful, inspiring gallery and collection of projects (/cc kottke.org ) Stay a minute in the cursor.camp . James writes about Joyful Web Design . This is a beautiful idea. Usability A Design Research Framework -…
On a Friday in May we went to Aachen to see Steve Hackett. I have been a Genesis fan since my early teens. So it was kind of a wish come true to witness the music of the golden prog-rock era come to life on a stage. And, boy, did they burn through it. The set was split by a 20-minute break and the first session consisted of Steve's later solo creations with the second session giving focus to the…
As board game enthusiasts we have always been romancing with a board game table. However, the ones you find on the SPIEL in Essen and at the usual manufacturers like Rathskellers are impressive - but the obvious and primary purpose is boardgaming . They're huge, bulky and try to be the No. 1 furniture in the room - too much for our living room (and taste). So we have been looking for smart…
On Saturday I went to the beautiful Ahrtal. You may remember, there was a terrible, heart-breaking tragedy in 2021, when the Ahr flooded the valley and lots of people lost their homes, work and even loved ones. Shortly after we went there for support and since then we came back quite often - most often to take part in the Ahrtal Weinwanderung. An event where you hike through the vineyards and…
On labour day, we went to the Herner Spielewahnsinn - a small boardgame convention in Herne in the middle of the Ruhr valley. It's a cozy, quiet convention, with some cosplayers, a few known German publishers, a rent-a-boardgame booth and lots of tables to get a game going. We played Feuerland s Echoes of Time . Another game that has a kind of card movement mechanism similar to Emberleaf or…
If there's one conference that my heart belongs to, it's the beyond tellerand , carefully crafted and organized by Marc Thiele in Düsseldorf and Berlin. Marc obviously puts so much love into this, you should not miss it. Marc on stage at beyondtellerand 2026 - Photos by Florian Ziegler under CC BY-SA 4.0. Unfortunately I wasn't able to visit the 15th anniversary edition just a few days ago. The…
Damn, I wanted to blog much, much more. So many things are happening, I just don't find the time. There is so much to do. Well, maybe I need to journal here on this website. Let me try that for the month of May. One post every day. Let's see what happens and if I am able to make it. It's funny, I enjoy software engineering and creating assistive systems with LLMs, but I can't credit using AI for…
No advertisement! On our weekend trip to Edinburgh and the Highlands we had the sheer luck of being given a pretty new car: The latest Mercedes CLA 250+. We ordered an electric car, but the one we wanted (Peugeot 3008) wasn't available, so a very nice clerk gave us (probably) an upgrade. I have been scolding German carmakers for quite some time (especially for their software capabilities), so we…