app, Arma, DIY, gaming, Reforger

FIA Cam for FIA in Arma Reforger vanilla (I did another thing…)

I have a couple of hobbies these days… and also a guilty pleasure named Arma Reforger. I really don’t have time for it, but when I do… I play as FIA, the outnumbered and doomed resistance fighters. IYKYK… (OK, sometimes I also play on modded WCS servers too – but playing FIA is more my kind of “fun”).

Introducing FIA CaM – The FIA Cache Mapper. Open the web app, take a photo of the FIA shopping list in your inventory on your phone, watch the map populate by the magic of OCR with the location of the five caches. You can even share a link to the populated map of the caches in the current game session with your FIA buddies.

It’s not cheating when you’re doomed already, right? Right?!

Find, use, resupply, protect!

Supports maps of Arland, Everon, and Kolguyev. Source shared on GitHub under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

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cine, dev, grading, OFX

I made a thing… (for DaVinci Resolve Studio)

Latest release: 5.36.0 BETA published on 2026.08.30

What’s new: Removed bug preventing presets from doing their thing correctly, new presets, even more things actually working overall.

Vacation time is… Hobby time, I guess? So I’ve indulged a bit in my other hobby again.

Introducing Lens Debaser OFX – Debase perfectly good optics in post.

A highly experimental OFX plugin for DaVinci Resolve Studio Apple Silicon (Metal) only for now, mimicking vintage optics kinks. At least that’s the idea…

In 2026 „cine“ image acquisition is solved & commodified. Like Undone said, all cameras are good now. Above, graded iPhone 17 Pro 4K Open Gate Apple log2 RAW with a ghetto 1.55x anamorphic lens. As most cameras and optics are too good now, too sterile, too sharp, too character-less – I‘m using my Lens Debaser to put some interesting-ness and character back into the image; Here, MTF, sharpness falling off at the edges in an elliptical anamorphic pattern and some chromatic aberration applied the same way. The flare is from the optics itself.

Still BETA. Unsigned. Some non-kosher command line action still required to make this work for now.

Let me show you its features & download installer package here

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AI, Education, entrepreneurship, Lean Startup, startup

Startup Entrepreneurship Workshops for DAAD Alumni (again)

Recently I had the pleasure to once again hold a couple of startup entrepreneurship workshops for select alumni of DAAD and the Humboldt community!

Above, ChatGPT re-interprets the Zoom workshop. ;)

On Zoom / remote to an eclectic and international group of over 40 academics, I held one workshop on evidence-driven problem discovery and using AI in that process. A second on Customer Discovery & assumption testing, including how we can test our critical assumptions behind our ideas for a business using validation experiments and tests – and also how to use AI to build validation experiments and MVPs.

Alumniportal Deutschland is a non-profit online social network of “Germany Alumni” that is designed internationally for people who have studied, researched, worked or completed further training or a language course in Germany or at a German institution abroad.

The primary non-profit and non-governmental organizations responsible for creating, maintaining and promoting Alumniportal Deutschland are the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD – the world’s largest funding organisation for the international exchange of students and researchers), and the Goethe-Institut. Since 2019, the Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt) is responsible for funding the portal.

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Education, entrepreneurship, Events, pitching, startup

Eastern-European Startups FTW!

Recently I had the honor and pleasure to win the international bid to tender with +ANDERSEN & ASSOCIATES to help EU4Innovation East & Expertise France help their selected batch of startups for VIVATECH 2026 in Paris prep for the conference, including investor pitching, competition pitching, and startup conference planning & strategy for reaching their goals and maximising the ROI of attending.

EU4Innovation East is a regional project enhancing the competitiveness of the startup ecosystems in five Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. At its core is a comprehensive strategy to foster high-performance incubators, expand funding and market opportunities, strengthen community ties and amplify the visibility of EaP startups.

Expertise France is the French public agency for international development cooperation. It is a subsidiary of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group and the second-largest agency of its kind in Europe.

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