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the escape sequence

Michael Kurze (GitHub, twitter), software engineer and open-source enthusiast.

Current/Recent Projects

  • How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)

    Netflix Series
    Technical Consultant, 2018-2022

    I consulted Bildundtonfabrik in Cologne on technical questions concerning information security, software development, and nerd culture.

    If you see any code or a terminal on screen, chances are that I was involved.

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  • planlos.in Deiner Stadt

    City Adventure Experience
    co-Founder, since 2016

    Together with a ton of creative people including two friends from high school (my co-founders), I am developing and running planlos.in. Since our launch in late 2016, tens of thousands of people have been enjoying our tours.

    This escape-game-style city adventure allows people to experience new places in a unique way, and to discover their own city with new eyes.

    Players find clues, solve riddles, and generally have a good time.

    Throughout the last couple of years, I have been supporting our tour authors in creating great experiences by evolving our a Django/React based game platform (as well as contributing some of the riddles), and in occasionally checking the Ansible/AWS operations.

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  • This Site

    the escape sequence,
    personal site, 2017-2021

    My portfolio site, used to try out things from time to time. In 2020 I rebuilt the site using vitepress, a bleeding edge generator based on the Vue 3 and vite. In that process I picked up custom properties and dropped the SCSS in favor of plain standard CSS. This combination makes for a lightning fast editing experience, where Vite hot-reloads my content much faster than I can even start telling my browser to refresh.

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Previous Projects

  • Aachen Vue.js Meetup

    co-organizer,
    2017-2020

    Recently on the backburner (thanks to COVID-19), Alexander Stoffers and I managed to gather the Vue.js Community in Aachen for seven meetups so far enjoying great talks as well as sponsored Pizza.

    Sign Up and join us for our next event!

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  • LaxarJS

    middleware for the web client (stable)
    contributor/maintainer, 2013 – 2020

    It was a privilege to have been employed as participant in an open source effort. LaxarJS can be considered a middleware that helps to decouple and structure your application components through a publish/subscribe-system.

    Initially, LaxarJS was mainly geared towards AngularJS developers, then turned into a bridging technology suitable for micro-frontend architectures. I favor using it in combination with Vue.js. For the LaxarJS team, Alex and I presented the project at enterJS 2015, goto;amsterdam and (W-)JAX Munich.

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  • NBE and Wireflow

    node-based editing library
    various web technologies, 2014-2016

    A toy project of mine, NBE is a user interface to display and manipulate directed hypergraphs. In such graphs, each edge may connect from any number of nodes to any number of nodes. Check out a demo example where NBE is used to implement a simple circuit simulator.

    The AngularJS (later: React) module is aimed specifically at node-based editing applications such as digital compositing, visual programming, data integration/mining and project planning. The hypergraph-model also lends itself to composing and visualizing publish/subscribe-systems, where topics are modeled as edges in the hyper-graph. Automatic graph layout calculation is provided through dagre.

    Later, I recreated the UI in React. This version was used to implement the LaxarJS Developer Tools for Google Chrome.

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  • Firefox Input

    Sentiment analysis
    internships 2010/2011

    During my 2010 internship with the mozilla data team in Mountain View, I built a sentiment analysis tool for the original version of the Firefox Input site.

    Sadly, the Python/Django-solution of that time is no longer with us (the code is, though). My Contribution was used to identify website breakage in advance of the Firefox 4 release (the first "evergreen" version of Firefox).

    Together with a good deal of ETL work, this actually got my name on the "Monument" 😉

About x1B

This x1B is me, Michael Kurze, 2013 CS grad from RWTH Aachen, and this is my personal website. I am a software developer and product architect, based in Cologne, Germany.

Professionally, my focus is and always has been on web technologies, a field that will probably never get boring. I am also interested in software and service architecture, machine learning and data mining topics (my master's thesis).

Currently, I work in the field of electrical energy transformation at envelio in Cologne.

Contact

To get in touch, send an E-Mail to michael.codes__pm.me (insert @).

You can also find me as x1B on GitHub and (infrequently) as @0b11011 on twitter.

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