Hey, I'm Hanno! I'm a self-employed software developer and maker, living in the beautiful Odenwald region in Germany.
I work on Fornjot, an early-stage project to create a next-generation, code-first CAD application. I've been experimenting with this for years on the side, and it's now my main professional focus.
If you're interested, check out Fornjot's website or the GitHub repository. If you want to support the project, please consider sponsoring me.
I'm interested in making and small-scale manufacturing, and I'm working on a bunch of side projects related to that. Most notably, I make (and occasionally sell) notebooks.
I'm also a big believer in open source, and do most of my work out in the open. Check out my GitHub profile or read my updates to follow along.
Published: 2021-10-22 (updated 2022-03-03)
I'm a software developer. I've learned to prefer clear code, written in a programming language, to complex graphical user interfaces that control opaque data formats. Applied to CAD, this approach is called Code-CAD or Programmatic CAD. Let's talk about some of the advantages of Code-CAD, as I see them.
Go to note...Published: 2022-02-22
You might be looking at the huge line-up of CAD software that is available today and think, what's the point of building another one? Aren't there already enough options?
Yes, there are a whole lot of options to choose from. And I tried to do that, again and again. Choose, I mean. But I've always come away unhappy from the experience.
Go to note...Published: 2022-01-24
The next step on notebook #6 is completed: text block is sewn.
Better safe than sorry: I just installed a self-activating fire extinguisher into my printer enclosure. In case of fire, this thing is supposed to saturate the enclosure with some type of gas that quenches the fire immediately.
Started working on notebook #6. Signatures are done. Next step is sewing them into a text block.
This will most likely be the last notebook I work on. It was a nice hobby, but I want to focus on other things now.
