Projects

I'm always having fun working on spare-time projects.
Some of them are (still) secret, others are available online.
You can find some of my more recent projects on GitHub
My 2021 GitHub skyline.

Highlights

brotli-unicode

Brotli compression/decompression that encodes to base-unicode and back. Node.js and Browser support. Achieves character compression rates of 500%+ and makes binary copy-pasteable.

⏰ 2022 ⚖️ MIT |
TypeScript
Node.js
Unicode
Browser
Compression
Decompression
Encoding
Decoding
WebAssembly
Brotli

base-unicode

Encodes text and binary data to a subset of Unicode plane 1 (BMP). Runs in browser and Node.js. Character compression. Makes binary data copy-pastable.

⏰ 2022 ⚖️ MIT |
TypeScript
Node.js
Unicode
Browser
Compression
Decompression
Encoding
Decoding
Binary
JavaScript
String

brotli-compress

WebAssembly based, asynchronous Brotli compression and decompression package that works in browsers and Node.js. CommonJS and ESM.

⏰ 2022 ⚖️ Apache-2.0 |
TypeScript
Node.js
NPM
Browser
Compression
Decompression
Async
WebAssembly
Brotli

nes-ui-react

NES UI for React is a React component library and a design system that paints the web in 8 bits. It is a fork and rework of NES.css which has been originally developed in 2018.

⏰ 2022 ⚖️ MIT |
TypeScript
React
design system
SCSS
Sass
pixelated
8 bit

kiss-arch

Web App architecture kept simple and stupid (TypeScript, JS); solves most architecture challenges in just 4k; 100% test coverage. KISS, DRY and high performant.

⏰ 2022 ⚖️ MIT |
TypeScript
Node.js
architecture
App
SQRS
Translation
EventBus
NanoStore
GlobalCache
Mode

Vanil

VANIL is a compiler and static site generator (SSG) that combines TSX/JSX+HTML+CSS and modern web standards. It can replace Next.js, Gatsby.js and Astro. EXPERIMENTAL.

⏰ 2021 ⚖️ MIT |
TypeScript
Node.js
ESTree
esbuild
Astro
SSG
compiler

Microtune

Microtune is an AU/VST MIDI FX plugin. It allows to detune all 12 chromatic tones of any virtual instrument individually. +/- 100 cents per semitone. All major DAWs supported (Logic Pro X, etc.).

⏰ 2021 ⚖️ GPL-3.0 |
C++
VST
AU
MIDI
JUCE
PluginGuiMagic

PCem on macOS

I've ported PCem to the Mac platform; developed into a community effort for several versions until it got merged into the official projects main code branch. Helped me getting back into C/C++.

⏰ 2019 ⚖️ GPL-2.0 |
C
Shell
Objective-C
C++
Makefile

articular

A web synthesizer experiment based on Tone.js. Allows for complex sound design in-browser. Helped me to understand sound synthesis and DSP in-depth.

⏰ 2020 ⚖️ MIT |
TypeScript
React.js
MUI
D3
Tone.js

SpringType

React-like PWA nano framework with < 4k bundle size all-in. Useful for TypeScript-driven micro-frontends. Helped me understanding React by rebuilding everything myself.

⏰ 2019 ⚖️ MIT |
TypeScript
JavaScript

node-libsharedmemory

A node native module that allows to read shared memory cross-platform (raw and using StreamReader / StreamWriter abstractions).

⏰ 2021 ⚖️ MIT |
C++
Node.js

libsharedmemory

Cross-platform shared memory stream/buffer, header-only library for IPC in C/C++. Makes sharing memory pages between processes really a breeze.

⏰ 2021 ⚖️ MIT |
C++

MS Excel implementation for the Web - ExtJS 4 Spreadsheet; supported a complete grid selection, in-cell editing model etc. pp. Sencha has later taken many ideas into its official Ext.grid.selection.SpreadsheetModel

⏰ 2013 ⚖️ GPLv3 |
ExtJS
JavaScript

O'Reilly | ExtJS - kurz & gut

Wrote a german book on the ExtJS JavaScript framework which was very popular from 2007 to 2013 and is still part of some enterprise applications nowadays.