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A lot of stuff here. Some of it even works.
GERMANY · 23 · FOUR DRAWERS, ONE DESK
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Hi, I'm Merlin!

Software engineer from Germany. I make things for a living and then, apparently for fun, I go home and make more things — printed, soldered, photographed or ridden.

Part-time I build Friendly Captcha, a privacy and accessibility focused alternative to reCAPTCHA. The rest lives in the drawers below.

Pick whichever drawer interests you — nobody has to care about all four.

that's the whole pad
what i'm doing now
→ building Kite
→ developing roll 041
→ printing a new bracket
→ too much coffee
THIS WEEK
last week
→ 140 km on the bike
→ patching Xenon
→ soldering, badly
→ slightly less coffee
JUL 2026
the month before
→ finishing AI in a Box
→ two rolls of film
→ rewriting a Go service
→ same coffee
JUN 2026
a while ago
→ moving billing to Paddle
→ learning to say no
→ one actual holiday
→ coffee, obviously
SPRING 2026
the four drawers
pick one
Software

Apps around Discord — Kite, Xenon and Embed Generator — plus the business that grew out of them.

NEWEST: KITEOPEN →
Photography

Rolls of film and a lot of digital frames. Cities, workshops, and whatever the light was doing.

NEWEST: ROLL 041OPEN →
Tinkering

3D printing and electronics on one bench — brackets, enclosures and old hardware given new brains.

NEWEST: AI IN A BOXOPEN →
Sundries

The one without a theme — cycling, Club Mate, records, maps, and whatever else is taking up time.

NEWEST: SIX MORE THINGSOPEN →
LATEST FROM EVERY DRAWER
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The writing cuts across all four drawers — essays, build logs and the occasional business post.

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