System Architect & Software Developer. 37 years in the game. 26 professionally.
Building minimal tools that earn every byte. Inspired by the demoscene. Guided by Unix philosophy. Using AI to engineer, educate and validate, not to replicate the bloat faster.
I design systems where reduction is the method, not the compromise. Small binaries. Semantic markup. Honest interfaces. Every abstraction must justify its weight.
Currently Senior Developer at a German DIY wholesale giant, working with React, TypeScript, and Spryker. Privately building min2max, ultralight web tools rooted in demoscene constraints.
27% of cloud spend wasted. $182 billion per year. 37signals saved $10M+ leaving AWS. Ahrefs: 11.3x cheaper on-prem. 86% of CIOs plan repatriation. The cloud was the only answer nobody got fired for choosing. What if the default is wrong?
Notion: notes to email client. Jira: bug tracker to 3,000 plugins. Google: 299 products killed. Sonos: CEO resigned. Skype: 405M users to shutdown. VLC: media player since 2001, never tried to send your email. The best software never added the wrong features.
$700 exam. Expires in 3 years. Repeat. Non-certified skills earn 2% more since 2007. CompTIA: $168M/year, now PE-owned. Kent Beck called it a pyramid scheme. When private equity acquires the exam, the product is you.
In 2006, Graydon Hoare walked up twenty-one flights of stairs because his elevator had crashed. Memory bug. C code. He started writing Rust that evening. No null. No exceptions. No GC. No inheritance. Every "no" eliminates a category of bugs. The elevator stops crashing.
We shipped 400KB of JavaScript so a heading could fade. The browser does it now. Three lines of CSS. Zero JavaScript. Barba.js: 7.5KB. Framer Motion: 32KB. View Transition API: 0KB. Because it is the browser. 87.82% global coverage. Progressive enhancement, done properly.
No framework. No build step. Measured live in your browser. Pure CAST Daemon.
The numbers above are measured live in your browser: your connection, your device, no averages. Below is what Google thinks of the result. Lighthouse audits four dimensions: raw speed, semantic accessibility, security and API hygiene, and search engine visibility. Four perfect scores from a self-made Rust binary web server with zero dependencies.
Google Lighthouse. Measured on vivianvoss.net, this site, served by CASTD — an extremely fast self-made and full scale web and content server written in pure Rust with zero dependencies.