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das_robin

@das-robin.bsky.social

Yeah, that's in the PR. Unless I missed it somewhere, totally possible!

Screenshot of a diff on github, showing "Zugänglichkeit" being replaced with the more appropriate term "Barrierefreiheit"

October 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM

das_robin

@das-robin.bsky.social

New #CatanaApp version! Took me a while, but I finally added inline markdown formatting, a bunch of editor niceties and QoL improvements, and fixed a huge performance issue that had been plaguing me from the start. Excited about the progress, it's taking shape!
github.com/roschlau/cat...

Screenshot of some nodes in Catana demonstrating differently formatted text and inline links.

Screenshot of several completed tasks in Catana. One of the task checkboxes has a tooltip displaying the duration the corresponding task has been in progress as "0h 5m 31s".

August 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM

das_robin

@das-robin.bsky.social

Opening any Node as its own page works, including breadcrumbs! #CatanaApp #PKM #SoftwareDevelopment

May 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM

das_robin

@das-robin.bsky.social

Well look at that, I actually managed to finish a #Brickfilm for this year's #Steinerei in time! Here's a frame from the film as little sneak peak. The film is a little rough around the edges, I'll spend some time polishing it for YouTube, so look forward to this in a month or two!
#stopmotion #Lego

A female Lego minifigure standing in a strongly backlit doorway leading into a dark, sci-fi looking room. She is looking camera left towards a basin filled with something emitting blue light. The only other light in the room comes from stripes in the floor lining the central walkway.

May 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM

das_robin

@das-robin.bsky.social

Caught a fun reflection of the sunset in a car the other day. I'm digging the contrast between the deep green and the orange
#photography

Close-up shot of the side of a Jeep or similar rugged car. In the deep dark green paint of the car you can see a blurry reflection of the orange sun having almost set, as well as the struts of some swingsets on a playground behind the camera

April 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM

das_robin

@das-robin.bsky.social

Took a fun picture of the driveway out of my parking garage #photography

A photograph up the driveway out of a parking garage. Looks like a tunnel with an almost square cross-section, with walls, floor and ceiling made from weathered concrete. Light floods in from the far end through the metal-mesh garage door which is centered in the frame. There are white tube-shaped lamps on the ceiling.

April 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM

das_robin

@das-robin.bsky.social

Aaaand I'm done with the rough "audio play" cut that I can start animating to. Got four minutes so far, feels like a comfortable runtime to have enough left for establishing shots, some additional action shots and credits.
#brickfilm #brickfilms #editing

Screenshot of the previously shown timeline with the audio clips now reduced to a single track with the "winner" takes, plus two tracks of provisional sound effects in a couple places for reference.

April 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM

das_robin

@das-robin.bsky.social

Cutting together voice lines for my #Steinerei film. Definitely one of the less enjoyable parts of making brickfilms for me. DaVinci Resolve is helping a lot with the transcription features though

Screenshot of a 3m and ~30s DaVinci Resolve Timeline containing loads of audio clips, color coded by speaker and with different takes stacked across 7 audio tracks.

April 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM

das_robin

@das-robin.bsky.social

Spent wayyy too long yesterday trying to get this window+windowsill+heater combination right. Worth it!
#lego #moc #brickfilm

Photo of a science lab interior built from Lego. The floor is tiled and light gray just like the walls, which have a dark blue stripe at the bottom. There is a large window letting in bright, warm light onto the window sill which has a white mug sitting on it and a wide space heater under ut. A telescope points out of the window. To the left of the window is a white desk with drawers. There is a minifig in a lab coat with brown hair standing with the back to the camera working on a keyboard and monitor on the right side of the desk, and a futuristic gun-like gadget hanging on the wall above the left side pointed downwards onto a petri dish. To the left of the desk is a white standing fan.

March 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM

das_robin

@das-robin.bsky.social

Yo wth, I just noticed that the subscribe button on youtube now does a little outline animation when the "like an subscribe" interact happens in a video? That's wild 🤯

March 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM

das_robin

@das-robin.bsky.social

They even emboss the studs on their bricks with their trademark. The missing texture on exposed studs is usually my biggest turnoff about the bricks from alternative brands, although I'm condition myself out of that

Photo of a stack of three brown 2x2 round bricks, with the topmost one showing the letters "MAX" embossed on three of the studs, with the fourth one showing a small molding mark.

March 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM

das_robin

@das-robin.bsky.social

Got two tiny brick-built plant models for the living room, and I'm in love with how they look! The brand is called ZURU Max, I think? It seems like they're producing their own bricks, and I'm shocked how good the quality is. Feels totally on par with Lego from these two builds
#lego

A brick-built model of a tiny orchid pot with two pink, full-grown orchid flowers, a couple of buds in various stages, green stems and dark green leaves, some brown roots hanging out of the pot. The pot is sitting on a small brick-built frame made look like a wooden frame.

A brick-built model of a tiny flower pot with a bit of green undergrowth beneath a bulb-like arrangement of lots of small, purple and blue flowers. The pot is sitting on a small brick-built frame made look like a wooden frame.

March 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM

das_robin

@das-robin.bsky.social

Ich sehe Lego auf dem Kühlergrill...

March 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM

das_robin

@das-robin.bsky.social

Couple more pictures. Pretty proud of the landing gear

Photo the pilot dressed in a red and white spacesuit in front of the spaceship whose cockpit is open

Underside of the spaceship with landing gear in flight position

Underside of the spaceship with landing gear extended

March 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM

das_robin

@das-robin.bsky.social

Noticed I hadn't uploaded this old MOC from 2010 to Rebrickable yet. Well, here we go! rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-213... #lego #moc #space #spaceship

A sleek, one-seat spaceship built out of Lego. The wings are straight and stubby. The color scheme is a mix of light and dark gray with red and sand red accents.

March 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM

das_robin

@das-robin.bsky.social

I appreciate them packaging the metallic gold canopy separately to prevent scratches though
The inconsistency is just frustrating

Big, golden canopy Lego piece packaged separately in a clear plastic bag

March 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM

das_robin

@das-robin.bsky.social

Lego is giving me whiplash with their print quality
One day they put out amazing, detailed prints that go edge-edge across multiple faces of a piece, then the next I get a 2x2 round tile with a print so badly misaligned that it looks like a kid messed up applying a sticker

Screenshot from a Jangbricks review showing the nose piece on the Red Bull F1 speed champion set from Lego. The piece is yellow with more than half of it printed dark blue, looking almost dual molded, with more fine details on it, all printed crisply and aligned perfectly

Photo of a white 2x2 round tile whose top is printed with a circular pattern, but the print is so badly misaligned that part of the print gors over the edge of the piece on one side, leaving a white crescent on the other

March 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM

das_robin

@das-robin.bsky.social

Not even done with the basement yet, but there are already some very fun techniques and unorthodox angles. It's definitely different from the much more "sterile" building experience normal Lego sets usually provide. I like it a lot