Tobias Hagemann • Developer & Designer • Based in Bonn, Germany
I’ve been using the macOS say command to generate voiceovers for simple videos and audio clips for AI assistants like OpenClaw . It works, but Apple’s best voices, the Siri Natural voices, can’t be selected with it. Turns out there’s a workaround. The Problem The say command lets you pick a voice with -v : say -v "Samantha" "Hello world" But if you run say -v '?' to list all available voices, the…
In December 2025, something clicked for me. Over the last month, I’ve spent a lot of my time developing AI assistants. Is “AI Assistant Engineering” even a thing? I’m pretty sure this will become a normal job title at some point. Example: Support Assistant I’d like to give you one example that I’ve been working on: an AI support assistant. What does handling support usually look like? I would say…
I like reading books. In fact, I like the idea of reading books even more. I want to learn more, but progress feels slow. So slow. I bought a lot of books this year, but I’ve only managed to read a few of them. I am determined to watch every new video from the YouTube channels I follow. Sometimes, however, I have to unfollow certain channels because I can’t keep up, and I realize that I don’t…
I’ve programmed for 25 years, but in the past weeks, I barely wrote any code myself. I’d like to tell you about my first personal “vibe coding” side project Energiekuchen and how it changed my perspective on building software. The Journey Begins My journey into vibe coding actually began on May 20, when ChatGPT Codex was unlocked for ChatGPT Team users. Three days later, on May 23, I tested it by…
Better late than never, I guess? Here is my review of 2021. Let’s go! 😂 The pandemic is ongoing and we’re probably all sick of it. Well, I hope you stayed healthy! 😅 I’ll continue with my “best of” lists because it’s always fun to reflect on that. With three adjustments though: I’ll reintroduce the highlights of Skymatic, remove the categories “Music” (because I’ve been listening to the same…
I actually wasn’t sure if I wanted to review 2020 buuut let’s keep the tradition going, shall we? 😁 This year didn’t turn out as all of us have expected, did it? We all had to adjust our lives (some more, some less). Fortunately, I wasn’t affected by the pandemic too much. I’m in a happy relationship since the beginning of the year. Our business at Skymatic just saw a small dent in March but we…
Oh boy, here we go again. Even though it would be fitting to review the whole decade, I’ll save me some time and just review 2019 as I’ve done last year with my very own “best of” lists. Movies I’ve watched 44 movies in 2019 (and 23 of them were from 2019). That’s 11 more than last year. Hooray? My favorite movie of 2019 is The Game Changers ! Yeah, it’s a documentary, I don’t care. 😄 Screw every…
Another year, another review. I’ll mostly stick to the format of last year’s review and present to you my own “best of” lists. Movies This year, I started tracking the movies I’ve watched: 33 movies in 2018 (but only 14 of them were from 2018). My favorite movie of 2018 is Avengers: Infinity War ! Yes, yes, sounds like an easy choice but I actually watched it twice in the cinema and it became one…
Here are some quick tips for macOS users. Most of them are shortcuts that I use on a daily basis. I’ll throw essential tips in as well so that everyone is up to speed but maybe you can find some hidden gems. 😉 1. Spotlight For the love of God, use Spotlight ! You can activate it with Cmd + Space . With Spotlight, you can find almost anything on your Mac. But you can also use it to open…
The Shit Is Hot is my first browser game, based on the segment Der Scheiß ist heiß on NEO MAGAZIN ROYALE . You have to guess how many hits the shown words generate in a search engine and then place them in the correct order. This blog post is in German since this game is inspired by a German late-night talk show. Letzte Woche habe ich mein erstes Browser-Spiel veröffentlicht: Der Scheiß ist heiß…