About me

Hi, I’m Matthias, a digital creative and web developer from Belgium. I’ve been working as a designer and developer since 2007, building things like games, promotional websites, backends, desktop applications, and various experimental projects along the way.

What keeps me engaged is that I don’t really see design and code as separate worlds. I move between front-end, back-end, UI, and UX quite naturally, and I like it that way. When I’m building something, I’m also thinking about how it feels. And when I’m designing something, I’m already thinking about how it will behave in code. That back-and-forth makes the work more intuitive for me, and usually leads to better, more coherent result.

These days, I’m especially drawn to community-focused and local applications, calm technology, self-hosted systems, and ideas around digital self-sufficiency. I like making things that feel considered and grounded, rather than loud or excessive—tools and experiences that fit quietly into people’s lives and respect their attention.

About this webpage

This webpage, among others, are self hosted on a tiny computer behind a low end consumer internet connection somewhere in the Ardennes (Belgium). It is a continuously tinkering/learning experiment where I try something different then the mainstream approach. Away from the cloud / edge and more towards relevance and locality. What can be done with limited hardware and bandwidth? And how does this influence the software stack and beyond?

All the content is sourced from my personal data container/pod as an Obsidian vault. This content is synced as markdown based content streams which drives/updates my webpages. This all happens on this tiny computer.

It's an exploration to expand my knowledge and to know how things work under the hood. All functionality is custom written in Node.js and Go-lang, from DNS updates, reverse proxies, mail sending and more, sometimes experimental but fun!