Welcome to my Grotto

a place where I try to cultivate the feeling of watching the shadows dance through vines, while insects are humming and tansy is making everything smell like summer.

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'm Maximilian. My music taste was once described as "The Atmospheric Futurist with a Nostalgic Heart" and my favourite feedback described me as a "herder of cat herders". I create things. Whether that's software infrastructure, harsh vocals over guitar riffs, elaborate Call of Cthulhu campaigns for players to inevitably ignore, or dinner experiments that occasionally don't poison anyone. When I'm not building things, you'll find me on the mats failing my triangle escape... again! I have a B.Sc. in Computer Science in Engineering, a M.Sc. in Software Engineering and Technology and, if the gods of bureaucracy eventually show some mercy, will hold a PhD in Bayesian statistics.

I am hiding a growing number of easter eggs around the site. Let me know when you find them :)