Christoph Bauer

Welcome to christoph-bauer.net. This page exists twice: as an amber terminal at /, and as the plain text you are reading right now, which needs no JavaScript at all.

About this page

The machine you meet at / bows to the era when screens glowed amber and 640 K of memory was enough for everything. Behind it there is nothing but static HTML, a little vanilla JavaScript and xterm.js — served by a NixOS box, with no cookies, no trackers and no fonts fetched from somebody else's server.

[Placeholder: a few sentences about Chris. He will write this himself; nothing is invented here on purpose.]

Family

[Placeholder: family. The spec's proposal — one single line, no names and no photos of the children. Chris decides what goes here.]

Projects

Lanternlight — a calm fairy-tale game to read aloud and play together; narrated by an LLM while the world itself stays a fixed, tested game engine. (online)
Newspeak — a functional programming language targeting WebAssembly, with a GRIN-based optimizing backend. (online, being redesigned)
Geschenker — buy together, share the cost. (online)
Zugwerk — a real-time game platform written in Rust: chess and tic-tac-toe in your browser and on your phone, against humans or bots. (online)
Outsider — a ground-up successor to livermore-ai, currently in the scaffolding stage. (no link, nothing public yet)

A calmer overview of the same projects lives on serabi.de.

Contact

[Placeholder: how to get in touch. Chris decides whether this is an e-mail address, a note or nothing at all.]

If you like numbers: /pi/ and /e/ compute their digits in your browser while you scroll — unbounded, and without a server.