Master's Thesis, University of Siegen2026
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Engineering deep dives, research notes, and essays on software, privacy, applied AI, interfaces — and the honest version of what it takes to ship.
6 posts · updated regularly
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Each post digs into the decisions behind a project or an idea — architecture, trade-offs, and the lessons that transfer.
Sep 14, 20266 min readprivacyrusttauri
Why I built Enclave: notes that can't phone home
Every notes app wants an account and a server. I wanted neither. Here is the threat model, the cryptography, and the hard parts behind a local-first, zero-knowledge knowledge base.
Read postSep 12, 20265 min readthree.jswebcodecspwa
Tempo — teaching volleyball in 3D, straight from the browser
Turning a coach's whiteboard scribble into an animated 3D play and a shareable video, without installing anything. Notes on Three.js authoring, in-browser video export, and designing for the gym.
Read postSep 10, 20265 min readairagpgvector
Building a self-hosted RAG workspace with hybrid search
How Nexus turns a folder of documents into cited answers — queue-based indexing, pgvector + full-text retrieval, streaming WebSockets, and the retrieval decisions that mattered more than the model.
Read postSep 6, 20264 min readpythonclidevops
Sentinel: knowing what changed without adding a dependency
A dependency-free Python CLI that watches releases, endpoints, and packages — and explains the diff. Why passive monitoring and explicit updates must stay strictly separate.
Read postSep 2, 20265 min readresearchaihci
What my master's thesis found about Figma-to-code AI tools
I spent my M.Sc. thesis evaluating whether AI can turn Figma designs into real frontend code. The short version — it accelerates professionals and misleads everyone who trusts it blindly.
Read postAug 27, 20265 min readengineeringdevopsci-cd
How I ship side projects: the pipeline behind eight repos
Every project gets the same baseline — a five-minute quickstart, CI gates, a license, and a docs page that sells it. Here is the repeatable process I use to take an idea from empty repo to released product while working full time.
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Peer-reviewed and thesis work that complements the writing above.
ICACCS 2023, IEEE2023