What I’m doing now
Updated on March 10, 2026 from Gauting, Germany.
Spring has sprung over here; I’m enjoying the sunshine.
I’m teaching another Scratch course at my kids’ Montessori school. It’s 90 minutes once a week for 5 weeks, and this time, the theme is “programming artificial life”:
Learn programming and create your own interactive digital creature. First, you’ll design your character (on paper or on the iPad). Then you learn how to give it behaviour in Scratch. Let it walk across the screen, search for food, decide when it needs to sleep. Turn your iPad into a virtual world!
The bee-like thing above is my creature, of course. It flaps its wings, gets happy when you feed it ants, and loves when you “pet” it with your cursor.
I still have availability for new consulting projects in 2026. I also finally put together a consulting page in case you’re curious how I could help you. I’m always happy to chat about potential projects, so feel free to get in touch.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been finishing up the last little bits of WebAssembly support in Ohm, and officially announced the v18 beta. I’ve continued to make performance improvements, and am pretty psyched that it’s now about 50x faster on real-world grammars 🔥.
Speaking of Ohm, I’ve been invited to do a talk at the MoreVMs Workshop next week. So I’ve been spending time preparing that.
And I’ll be doing live pair programming with Jason Lengstorf on Learn with Jason on Thursday, March 19. You should tune in!