Hi, I am Philip :)

I am an indie maker & researcher with a doctorate in computer science, interested in (among others): Software engineering, open data, data science, startups and esports.

I provide freelance services and build products at isselthal industries. Before that, I was a researcher at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

I mainly write about #research , #software-engineering , #open-data , #projects and #personal experiences.

Featured

• On Immigration and Civility

  12 Feb, 2025

  A personal reflection.

• Who wrote this shit?

  9 Jan, 2022

  Trashing legacy software is fun. It creates camaraderie.

Recent Posts

• How to use animated sprites and animations with Excalibur and the LDtk level editor

  29 Nov, 2025

  One way to configure animated sprites for an Excalibur level using the LDtk level editor.

• Can a domain-specific language improve program structure comprehension of data pipelines? A mixed-methods study

  15 Nov, 2025

• Open Collaborative Data Engineering With Subject-Matter Experts Using Domain-Specific Languages

  16 Sep, 2025

• Balancing technology heterogeneity in microservice architectures

  20 Jun, 2025

• AI Adventures

  25 Mar, 2025

  A ChatGPT wrapper to generate TTRPG adventure ideas.

• TinyPets

  25 Mar, 2025

  They are pets. They are tiny.

• Immigration und Respekt

  14 Feb, 2025

  Persönliche Erfahrungen.

• An Empirical Study on the Effects of Jayvee, a Domain-Specific Language for Data Engineering, on Understanding Data Pipeline Architectures

  12 Feb, 2025

• Beautiful quotes: Zitat

  31 Dec, 2024

  I built a small tool to generate beautiful images for insightful quotes.

• Meta Data #2: Hacking Integration, Diverse Teams and Local Impact With Oleg Lavrovsky

  28 Nov, 2024

  An interview with Oleg Lavrovsky about supporting integration with hackathons, enabling diverse teams and making local impact.