Projects
A small selection of my recent and former projects
Show me the Cast, Please (2021 - ongoing)
Show me the Cast, Please is a tool I’ve been running on my local server for several years now. We’ve all had that moment when we see someone in a TV show or movie and just can’t remember their name or where you know them from. When you try to look them up on popular sites for this, you're often bombarded with ads, and finding the quickest way to view the cast list for a specific episode or movie can be frustrating. That’s why I created Show me the Cast, Please.
It has one simple purpose: to quickly show you the cast list. All you need to do is type in the name of the show or movie. If it’s a show with multiple seasons, you just select the season and episode. And that’s it—you’ve got the cast list. From there, you can view the entire cast for the episode or movie, and with a single click, explore other work they’ve been involved in.
It’s as easy to use as it was to build, thanks to the TMDB API which is free for most use cases. I’ve been using the tool for years, but finally decided it was too useful to keep to myself, so I released it online. You can try it out yourself at cast-please.com!
Effzeh Schiedsrichter (2020 - ongoing)
Being born in Cologne, I went to my first FC game when I was just 6 years old during the 94/95 season and have been hooked since. And pretty early on I was convinced, that – while not actively playing a role – subconsciously some referees were a better fit for my team than others. So I began taking notes and keeping books on how likely it was for my team to win if this referee was officiating the game. Many years later I automated this with API-FOOTBALL. More features and statistics are on the roadmap.
Freelancing (2009 - ongoing)
I’ve been working as a freelancer for more than 10 years. I have specialized in IT-Consulting and worked with law & doctor’s offices as well as journalists and companies to plan, organize and implement highly individual network- and computer systems. Including but not limited to internal network infrastructure, server administration, web hosting, e-mail hosting and website administration.
Fußball Videotext (2022)
Developed in HTML, PHP, Python and Go using Kirby and MySQL databases. Hosted at DigitalOcean and powered by API-FOOTBALL.
–> fussball-videotext.de (archive.org screenshot)
An archive.org screenshot for a match overview can be found here.
Apps N Coffee (2014 - 2017)
Apps N Coffee was one of the first blogs I had that was economically successful and got updated frequently for almost three years. During this time I posted about once a week about apps, hardware, reviews, productivity and everything else on the Internet. For some time Apps N Coffee was running on WordPress, the most successful and visible on Google it got when it switched to a self-developed layout on Kirby. I learned a lot about working and cooperating with companies, Online Marketing, SEO and the blogging community. To this date I still hugely profit from the writing and these real world experiences & connections I had while doing this blog.
Photogenic (2016)
Photogenic was a theme I developed for Kirby CMS version 2. It offered photographers or bloggers who wanted to tell their stories mainly via pictures a very easy way to do so within a very minimalistic layout and a bloat-free tech stack. It came with different post types such as only picture post, single picture post with text oder gallery post with text. Thanks to the even back then amazing functionality of Kirby, photographers didn’t need to care to resize or optimize their pictures before uploading. They could uplaod a picture a picture in full-size and the theme would resize and optimize it to ensuere optimal performance and visuality.