Websites from Germany

Julien Voisin is a binary reverser and open-sourcerer. He is an exploit mitigation archeologist on isopenbsdsecu.re and was previously a third-party dependencies herder and software isolationist at Google. Currently, he works as a professional security critic at Casaba. He is the developer of mat2, snuffleupagus, and fortify-headers, a code developer of miniflux, and ex-core-dev of radare2 and airsonic. He is also a sociology and bouldering enthusiast, a sysadmin/contributor for OpenMW, and maintains mimalloc-bench. He is the overlord of websec.fr, a sysadmin for Nos Oignons, and a Tor enthusiast, as well as a stalkerware hunter for Echap.

René Fischer is a husband, father, friend, and nerd living near Munich. Originally from Gotha, he experienced the last 10 years of the GDR there. He works in product management for an international software company. René is an analytical creative worker, geek, and food aficionado. He develops iOS apps in his free time. When time and weather permit, he enjoys being outdoors, photographing with his smartphone. He has pets from Lake Tanganyika. Online, he can be found on Mastodon, and less frequently on Bluesky, as well as GitHub, OpenStreetMap, and Komoot.

Sebastian Arnold is a multifaceted artist and developer exploring the intersections of technology, creativity, human communication, music, and machines. He is a ‘mad scientist drummer’ touring and producing music as a one-man band, using his drum kit to interact with sequencers and synthesizers. His music is a danceable mixture of jazz, electronica and post-rock. He works as an AI architect and product manager, building upon his 10-year experience as an academic researcher for computational language models. He develops the Senode Graph Sequencer iOS App and other creative software systems. He was a researcher at DATEXIS at Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin. He graduated from Université de Fribourg, Switzerland with a Ph.D. in 2020 and with a M.Sc. in Computer Science at DIMA, Technische Universität Berlin in 2014.

Florian Waldmann, born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1984, is the owner of nupita.de. He studied computer science and media at a university in the Black Forest. Prior to that, he became the family IT expert after successfully re-assembling his first computer. He has worked as a bartender, event helper, waiter, and youth animator. After internships in Munich and Freiburg, he moved to Hamburg and worked in the mobile/browser games industry for five years. He also participated in a charity rally around the Baltic Sea on a 30-year-old motorcycle.

Dominik Schwind describes himself as a friend of the internet and maintains the blog LostFocus. He shares his thoughts on various topics, including technology, photography, and personal experiences. He enjoys linkblogging, taking photos, and exploring new apps in the fediverse. He can be followed via RSS feed or on Mastodon at @dominik@nona.social and @dominik@lostfocus.de.

Thorsten Zöller was born in Oberhausen, Germany, and spent about 20 years there. He studied physics and earned a PhD in theoretical physics. He currently lives in Frankfurt, Germany, with his wife and son. He is (mostly) vegan and enjoys freshly ground and brewed coffee. He is a fan of the OpenBSD operating system and the vi editor. He values simplicity in many aspects of his life, including his website, which is a static site generated from Markdown files using his own tool, statatic.

Max is someone who always wanted to write a regular blog. He uses blot to publish on the internet. He is interested in crypto-economics and the design of economic systems, particularly in the context of Bitcoin and Ethereum. He explores narratives beyond 'Gold 2.0' using optimizations in cryptography and digital economies. He can be contacted via email at max@vonhulewicz.com.

Frederik Braun is a security engineer and manager working on the Mozilla Firefox web browser. His work involves various topics ranging from security, web standards, static analysis, bug bounty, and public speaking. Some of his major projects include eslint-plugin-no-unsanitized, the Mozilla Attack & Defense blog, the paper Hardening Firefox against Injection Attacks, and the Subresource Integrity web standard. He is particularly proud of his blog post Examining JavaScript Inter-Process Communication in Firefox. Before working at Mozilla, he wrote a diploma thesis about the Same Origin Policy in 2012, which concluded his studies of IT-Security at the Ruhr University in Bochum. This is also where he co-founded the CTF team fluxfingers.

Fabian Holzer is a software engineer with a long-standing passion for programming. He enjoys reading widely and exploring ideas that spark his curiosity. His writing covers topics such as software engineering, web development, blogging, and the web in general. He invites readers to contact him to discuss any of the topics on his site.

Topi Kettunen is a musician and programmer from Finland, currently living in Berlin, Germany. He maintains a blog where he shares random things he finds on the internet and documents his life. He also shares what he's reading, using, and listening to. A resume is also available.

Moritz Kindler is a technical founder who builds with determination and curiosity. He previously exited StudyPDF, a social learning platform for students to learn together with AI, which brought over 55k students together from all over the world. With HackathonQ, he is bringing together talent from all over Europe to help exceptional people create products for the global maximum. He shares his personal photography on Unsplash, with over 130 million views and over a million downloads. He also documents his life with Now Logs, sharing his learnings and moments.

Manuel Hügel is a designer, developer, and Shopify expert based in Mannheim, Germany. He designs, builds, and optimizes bespoke Shopify stores for various clients. Manuel also runs his own Shopify app, groupmate.

This individual maintains a bare, functional website with few subpages. The site includes personal content such as book recommendations, a collection of bookmarks, and legal data for friends. The website also references Solid, a specification that implements a new layer on top of the existing web.

Reza is a blogger who uses their platform to share their thoughts and experiences in daily life. They describe their writings as mostly incoherent and seem to enjoy reflecting on a variety of topics, from personal struggles and self-improvement to art, technology, and travel.

Jan Dittberner is a software architect and IT consultant. He received his Abitur in 1996 and served in the military as a microwave radio relay technician. From 1997 to 2000, he studied computer science at the Technical University Dresden, with a secondary subject of cognitive psychology. He worked as a software engineer for newtron AG and bluesoft AG before joining Communardo Software GmbH as a software engineer and architect. Since 2012, he has been a software architect and since 2017, a principal IT architect at Deutsche Telekom MMS GmbH. Jan is also a Debian Developer since 2009, maintaining the Debian Member Portfolio Service, and a CAcert.org infrastructure administrator, leading the infrastructure team since 2009. He is a supporter of the Free Software Foundation Europe since 2013.

Sander de Feijter is a researcher and software developer. He is interested in making programming technology more accessible and empowering for everyone. Sander is currently a postdoc at the University of St Andrews, working on the Grace programming language. Previously, he obtained a PhD at the University of Kent on live programming for end-users. He also worked as a software engineer at Google, and interned at several other companies.

DJ TOBANDER is a DJ who offers downloadable Trap music and RnB4Playaz 1 in single MP3 files.

May is the webmaster behind MayDB.net, a personal database dedicated to things she finds interesting. She has been an active internet user since 2011 and has a passion for personal websites. MayDB.net is an attempt to fulfill her childhood dream of creating her own website. She chronicles her interests and shares her creative projects on the site, treating all creeds as her own. May can be reached via PM through her forum or via email. She enjoys hearing from people.

Noukka Signe is a product designer with over 9 years of experience. Based in Berlin, Germany, she is currently a Senior Product Designer at Lingoda. Noukka began her career at Triple, a full-service digital agency, and later worked at Resoluut. She joined Klarna in 2018 and launched various fintech products. Noukka is also a freelance photographer. She graduated from Communication and Multimedia Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht. She is passionate about user experience and solving user problems.

Daniel is a software developer and solution architect. He is passionate about software and its design, interested in designing things, and fascinated by cybersecurity. He writes detailed articles about personal projects, cybersecurity, and tutorials on his website. Daniel has worked on over 80 websites. He enjoys creating things and has tinkered with music, writing, drawing, painting, woodworking, and computing. He fondly remembers discovering how to copy code from the internet to make his computer open an empty window.

Tomayac is a product-minded software engineer. He enjoys building things with code and is interested in AI, developer tools, and education. He likes working on projects that have a positive impact. He is currently building tools for thought at Saga.

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