Kolja Sam Pluemer

An infographic explaining the functionality of instantiate(), new(), Add Child Node etc. in the Godot game engine.

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• Desktop Version (1920x1080) (small text is hard to read)

I made a version of the Warming Stripes graphic with climate data for Bavaria, Germany.

• Poster (PDF)
• Local news article (German)

• Language learning is useful but very hard.
• Existing apps often use outdated teaching methods and rather dry gamification.
• To improve this state of affairs, I'm building a language-learning game where you solve image puzzles by dragging cards on a grid.
• Play the free game

• An experiment in data-driven learning.
• Learners practice Arabic by translating sentence by sentence from a natural language corpus.
• The prototype is available here.

• A free online tool to practice Arabic survival phrases — on a timer.
• Play here.

• A vending machine company commissioned an app enabling their employees to track ware movements.
• I implemented a fullstack web application usable as a mobile app.
• It allows user management, login and authentication, digital signatures and complex management of wares and location.
• The application was custom-made for the client. If you're interested in something like this, please contact me via email.

• My attempt to implement a digital version of Luhmann's Zettelkasten.
• The project was shuttered long ago — rather, it grew into Kaado, then into Obsidian: The Queue.
• Lessons Learned From Building My Own Note Taking System

• A web-app where you can test a color schemes on multiple website mockups
• inspired by Building Your Color Palette
• Check out the prototype here

• A python desktop application to practice sheet music according to the principles of deliberate practice.
• The software is available in the repository here.

• A website recommending random reference pictures for art practice.
• Visit it here.

A spaced repetition web game about placing countries on the map.

• Play online
• Repository
• Reddit thread
• HN discussion

• Obsidian is an excellent note-taking tool.
• However, there is a risk of creating notes that you simply never look at again.
• To fix this, I'm building an Obsidian plugin that displays random notes as habits, learning items, iterative reading content, and more.
• You can download The Queue from the community plugins, or see the repository.

• A website recommending you a stretching exercise you can do right now.website

• German labor law requires (almost) any business to track their employee's work time (§17 MiLoG).
• Small businesses need a pragmatic, simple solution to be compliant.
• To this end, I've built a responsive web application allowing employees to track work time, vacations and breaks with no fuss and little cost.
• If you're interested in this product, please email me.

• Often, language learners try to "drill" repetitive topics, such as verb conjugations or numbers.
• This is boring, and not very effective.
• To explore how to do it better, I've built a simple interface to practice the numbers from 1-100 in Egyptian Arabic.
• You can play the free online game here.

• I made a game for you to practice where countries are on the world map.
• First, learn where countries roughly are, then get more precise.
• Powered by Spaced Repetition.
• See the free online game here.