Updating this on a rainy sunday morning, with our wet visiting cat beside me on our her bean bag.
Work#
The stars have aligned and after months of waiting, the research project funds have finally been released. I’ve started my new position as Research Pipeline Engineer at the Carl Laemmle Institute (CLI) of the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg!
I’ll be working on two research projects, the first one being Industrial Metaverse Reallabor (IMRL) which focuses on XR use-cases for industrial applications e.g. in production, maintenance or for staff training purposes. The other project Virtuelle Immersive Standort- und Architekturplattform (VISTA) will be an online platform for architects but also film producers or location scouts where they can examine 3D scans of popular locations and already start experimenting with furnishing, lighting and positioning cameras before physically visiting the location.
Side Projects#
Recently, I’ve had some time at my hands and picked up a handful of projects:
eRechnungPy takes XML exports of invoice data from a legacy MS Access database and generates EN16931-compliant XMLs which are then combined to a ZUGFeRD eInvoice.
BBM-ERP is an ERP that I’m building from the ground up together with my partner. I am mostly concerned with the backend-side and am learning a lot about database design right now. We are using Postgres, FastAPI/SQLAlchemy on the backend and Tauri with Vue.js on the frontend. It’s a “Mammutprojekt” for sure, but we are almost at a point where we can try out the purchasing side in production.
Moving from Pop-OS to CachyOS with Hyprland has been an adventure to say the least. Almost like I enjoy making things hard for myself. After 30 days my takeaway is this: I do enjoy CachyOS, it feels snappy and feels like an easy introduction to Arch. As for Hyprland or rather the popular dotfile templates I’ve tried… they are often a inconsistent design-mess (mixing so many different font-families and styles, rAiNbOw bOrDeRs, …). Currently trying to dial this all down, wish me luck.
