[HPI], [In General], [Nerd-Content], [Personal] One big day …

Today marks two major turnarounds in my life.

Today I have handed in my Bachelor’s thesis. This means my Bachelor studies are finished now. Good bye university. We might meet again for a Master’s degree someday …

Also today I have signed a contract with SoundCloud. This means that starting in September I will be an API developer there.

Both are big news. I’m going to write more about each of them in the following days. But for now I am off celebrating!

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[Movies] Kilian Martin: A Skate Escalation

Beautiful skate video

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[Mobile Photos] Berlin Rummelsburger Bucht

This used to be one awesome house …

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[Nerd-Content] On Motivation

Animation on Motivation

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[Movies] Scale of the Universe

/me loves Science (and 1080p)

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[Nerd-Content] Hacking is easy!

HACKING IS EASY! from Airwave Ranger on Vimeo.

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[Music], [Personal] Now

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[Nerd-Content] Twitter Roundup #21

• Moving mail from Thunderbird to gmail has been a very good choice productivity-wise. I strongly recommend Inbox Heaven for gmail
• These stories by Eric Wahlforss on bootstrapping Soundcloud are just incredible good
• HPI/HPV starting Business Plan Contest – Winner gets a one year scholarship for 3 founders with 1500€/month per person. And a free office. And free coaching. And they want no equity …
• Digitale Nomaden – Über das Freiberuflerleben in Berlin
• Flattr could be a good concept of how to pay for content in the future.
• Things I bought recently: Remember the Milk Pro Account, Transmit 4, Ipredator VPN
• I will attend Barcamp London 8. Looking forward to it big times!
• Brutal good video by M.I.A. / Romain Gavras here.

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[Nerd-Content] Music Hackday Amsterdam 2010

Photo by mschieben

Last weekend I attended Music Hackday Amsterdam 2010 which was as awesome as always. About 150 people came together for a weekend in some gallery/office-building in the center of Amsterdam. And most of them did awesome hacks.

Apart from meeting a bunch of great people and eating pizza I was taking it slow this time and participated in a hardware workshop by Steim. I learned soldering (inc. burning fingers) and programming Arduino (inc. liking it).

This is the outcome of the days. An Arduino-driven led-lit Noise/Tone/Cracklebox:

Thanks again to everyone who helped me along the way, especially Joep for being so patient with me.

I hope to hack a bit more in the future on this project and to publish the code and soldering plan …

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[HPI], [Nerd-Content] Twitter Roundup #20

• When Berlin reaches 22c it becomes one of the best cities in the world.
• I have been working on Twestival.fm which features a nice Tracksonamap integration.
• A lot of good music has been donated to Twestival.fm
• Cinch – “Windows 7″-style Window Management for Mac OS X
• I have signed up for Gmail and am using the “Inbox Heaven” workflow now
• Moving all my mails ( > 10.000 / 1.5 Gb) from Thunderbird to gmail via IMAP took over a week … moving mails with attachements is a pain …
• I have a Tumblelog at Tumblr now … http://freenerd.tumblr.com …
• Products is the reason to love Apple. Politics is the reason not to do. It is a dilemma.
• The working title for my Bachelor’s Thesis: Agile Software Development in Small Projects – Methods and Techniques used in the Sendinel Project
• I am attending Music Hack Day Amsterdam.

I have submitted this track to the BMI + Florian Meindl Remix Competition

BMI Techno Seminar (Disko DNA Spring Remix) by DiskoDNA

The Multitoe Touch Floor Research at the HPI released this great video which displays some cool ideas regarding large touch interfaces. Last semester I have been working on a paper that outlines a music production app for that floor. You can download it here.

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