👋👋 Hey hey,

I’m Nicolai, a 26-year old student from Germany.

I’ve been meaning to get back into blogging for years, and I’ve finally managed to finish one of my grand website projects! Excting.

Take a look!

If you want to reach me, you can do so by emailing me here:

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For Work and School

• 13" M4 Pro MacBook Pro 1TB SSD (which I dearly love even though I ordered it in the wrong colour)

For Fun

• PC with Ryzen 7 3700X + Intel Arc A770 (the strangest combination of all time, exclusively for gaming) RTX 5070 Ti (I got a great deal on it and it’s much better for both gaming and ML, sorry, Intel! Please ship the B770/C770)
• Kindle Scribe (I love the large screen because I can set the text to be large enough for me to read without glasses while still fitting a somewhat reasonable amount of text)
• iPhone 17 Pro Max + Apple Watch Series 9
• Canon R6 Mark II (which I really should use more, mostly with the EF50mm ƒ/1.8 STM)
• Blackmagic Pocket 6K (borrowed from work to record our plays)
• MUBI (+ Notebook because I love a magazine that’s not meant to be read)
• Sonos Beam + Era 100s
• Nintendo Switch 2 (I’ve been really into Pokémon lately)
• PS5 Slim (got it with my internet contract and I do like it)

Software

• VS Code (for almost all my coding)
• PyCharm (exclusively for AI projects I have to build at work)
• XCode (I’ve been really into silly little one off apps—watch this space)
• BBEdit (for my linguistics data entry work)
• Final Cut Pro / DaVinci Resolve Studio (the latter mostly if I accidentally record in BRAW)
• Alfred (which I’ve come to love more than I ever thought possible)
• Texifier (to spend too much time on LaTeX for things that really don’t need it)
• Adobe Lightroom CC (unfortunately, no one else even comes close)
• Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher (for everything Lightroom doesn’t do)
• Obsidian (which I live in)
• Apple Music Spotify (for the easy last.fm integration) (I switched back to Apple Music because I always hated Spotify’s UI and podcast-pushing)
• Letterboxd
• Fantastical (mostly for the overview)
• 11ty (for two theatre websites and this blog)
• omg.lol for my silly little portfolio (really just a collection of links)
• Handbrake, Shutterencoder & VLC for various tasks
• Apple Mail (it does what I want it to do) Outlook (it was not for me, I still think it’s a terrible app)

Things I hate having to use

• Teams (for work)
• far too much Google stuff (theatre, my main hobby outside of reading runs on it)

/stats

I built a fun stats page. Find it here.

/experiments

Similar to the stats page, there’s also a (highly experimental) page where I’m trying out some things. Find it here.

Impressum

Angaben gemäß § 5 DDG

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Address: Gottfried-Pressel-Weg 6+8 72074 Tübingen Germany

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