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Indie maker & researcher with a doctorate in computer science | Software Engineering • Open Data • Data Science • Startups • esports | Visit https://heltweg.org :)
German Christmas spirit is star decoration made from meat and cinnamon 🌟.
October 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Leaving gloomy Paris for one more trip to Germany and one more PhD defense, this time as a guest. I'm hyped to experience a defense without anxiety for once 😅.
October 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
October 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I see my recent CS:GO sales might be related to this: www.polygon.com/counter-str.... Very good, I am glad for every dollar burned 🔥.
Counter-Strike's player economy is in a multi-billion dollar freefall
Due to a recent update to Counter-Strike, its cosmetics economy is in freefall.
www.polygon.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Finally making money with esports. Now I just need to find the energy to play video games again 😌.
October 23, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Is it expected behavior that the Bsky app logs me out every few days? Incredibly annoying :/.
October 23, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Very niche post, but I've finally made it to my first 3k rating in WoW 🎉. Overall, I have to say I found the players to be much nicer than I anticipated, largely good vibes :).
October 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Crushing all my friends in the LinkedIn games 💪 .
October 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
One big effect of AI on my life is that I actually use VoiceInk for just talking to my PC and then transcribing into text areas quite a lot nowadays. Even this is posted from talking to the PC. Wild. The future is here.
October 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
a woman interviewed in a reel. her sister is her best friend, she likes flowers, flower smell reminds her of her, how does she feel about perfume X? loves it, she just bought it, perfume X is amazing! wait is this an AD? it is an AD, oh no oh no what have we done this is all wrong what have we doing
October 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Apparently weird thing to say, but: I want to review some papers, someone put me down as requested reviewer pspspspsps reviews where are you?
October 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I spent ~6h today just speaking with my computer using text to speech into Claude. Weird way to work, but really interesting 🤔. And felt quite productive as well.
October 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Trying to pay Anthropic for a Pro plan only to get Internal Server Errors. Please, Claude, fix your backend 😭.
October 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Had a great time running some dungeons in WoW with a new player on Sunday, just explaining mechanics in a relaxed atmosphere. Nice to be reminded that that is what multiplayer games are all about instead of running after the gear 🙌.
October 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I have reimplemented my personal homepage (www.heltweg.org) using Astro. Hopefully this enables me to add some react-based enhancements for my blog in the future.

I've seen others do cool stuff with that, looking forward to building something similar :).
Philip Heltweg
Hi, I am Philip :)
heltweg.org
October 2, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Just got notified that our paper was accepted at EMSE 🥳. Kind of funny to think that, depending on their background, that will mean nothing to a large majority of people 😅. But to me, it is "the happy end" of ~2 years of work.
October 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Travel reimbursements by the university now take more than a year. I should start charging interest 😬.
September 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
clinging to the last days of summer like the leaves, desperately holding on to the tree
September 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Putting my thesis into NotebookLM by Google and generating a video podcast is a wild ride of cringing about the US-marketing hype framing and awe at the technology 😬. But I appreciate the AI telling me the work is groundbreaking, big hype woman energy.
September 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I have been quiet recently, but for a good reason: Last week, I successfully defended my dissertation on open collaboration during data engineering with open data 🎓🥳. Honestly, stressful times, but now there is only waiting for the German bureaucracy left 😌.
September 22, 2025 at 8:28 AM
How do I disable the slow reveal animation on the Android lock screen after the recent Pixel update? Why would this be changed 🤦 .
September 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Cheering for #mouz in the #EWC from their headquarters in Hamburg :) 🙌
August 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
How can I tell my bluesky that I don't speak German? I don't want my whole discover timeline to be German 😬.
August 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
ITU Copenhagen looks very nice from the inside :). Much better than the 70s style office buildings computer science gets in Germany 😬.
August 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM