This somehow snuck up on me, but today is day 100 of 2026, the Year of Art. I’ve drawn an entry for my visual diary on every single one of those days. Not a single day missed.

It’s one of the best projects I’ve ever taken on. It continues to challenge me while giving me small wins every day. It strikes the perfect balance between a relaxing hobby and something that actually demands effort.

I’m not sure if I can keep this up forever. Every day I think this will be the day I run out of ideas, but it hasn’t happened yet. So I’ll keep going and hope for the best.

Eight years ago, somewhere on the outskirts of Berlin, a random cat gave birth to a litter of kittens. A couple of weeks later, I took two of them home, and they’ve been living with me ever since.

They’re great. I love them, and I wouldn’t want to be without them, even though having pets isn’t always easy. They’ve helped me through some hard times and make my life better every single day. I love sharing my day-to-day life with them.

Happy birthday, Gigabyte and Millimeter! 🎈

It took me nearly 100 days of daily drawing (and buying pens) to land on a pen that doesn’t leave me wanting more.

I follow a lot of artists who’ve come to very different conclusions, and I’ve tried plenty of their recommendations. None of them did for me what the Tombow Brush Pen Fudenosuke with soft tip does. This is obviously very subjective, so no promises you’ll feel the same.

But for me, it just works. It looks good, feels great, gives me a lot of control over my lines, and it’s surprisingly cheap.

I’ll let you know if that changes. That would be breaking news.

I love everything about this. How he talks, how he got to where he is and his work and wisdom.

A few quotes I liked:

Talent, I believe, is a mostly myth because I hear that a lot. ‘Oh, you’re so talented.’ And it’s not really true.

Your greatest asset isn’t your good looks, it’s not your education, it’s not who you know, it’s none of those things. Your greatest asset you have is your persistence and it’s the one thing that you’re fully in control of.

When you see someone who really excels at something, it’s persistence and staying with it and repetition over a long period of time. That’s what you’re looking at.

I never set out to have an unconventional life. I just kept avoiding things that suffocated me.

I know that all of you are on the edge of your seats, waiting for my opinion on Liquid Glass. iOS 26 was released more than six months ago, and I had the strong feeling that it would take some time to really understand whether it's a good redesign or not.

It is. I like it.

All the criticism of it is valid, and I understand that if you think about it, Apple's arguments for the redesign don't make sense. But this isn't only about thinking. It's about vibes.

And the vibes are great. It feels good and modern, and contrary to my initial reaction, I don't think it'll age quickly anymore.

I added a new feature to this site. I can now embed posts into posts. This will only work on the site itself. If you're reading this via RSS, you might want to come over.

Here's an example:

Marcel

Mar 10, 2024

Lately, despite my best efforts, I've noticed more gray hairs at my temples, recurring fashion trends, and a sharp memory of events from two decades ago, all of which frequently …

But that's not all. Here's an example of a post that contains an image:

Marcel

Sep 22, 2025

A couple of months ago, I wondered if micro-blogging and journaling could be combined. Something about sending off small posts feels different from crafting a whole journal entry. …

But I didn't stop there! I can embed dailies, too. Because why not! See here:

Marcel

Mar 19, 2026

I'll never enjoy flying. It's against nature and shouldn't be possible.

And because embedding seems to be the theme of the hour, here's an embed for a tag. It shows the most recent entries with that tag and links to the tag detail page.

Shoutout to Codex for doing most of the work on this!

I’m going to be honest with you: I love buying stuff. I don’t do it often because I don’t like having stuff, but finding things, buying them, and then playing around with them is one of my favorite pastimes. Unfortunately, I’m not hedonistic enough to indulge this desire all the time.

But my yearly theme, The Year of Art, makes it easy to justify buying a new sketchbook every couple of weeks, or trying out a new medium or a different kind of brush.

I love it. I can go down endless rabbit holes, figure out exactly which kind of gouache paint was used for a piece I like, and then buy it for a couple of bucks and experiment with it. The same goes for pencils, brushes, and paper.

The Year of Art is going great.

I don’t need a PlayStation 5 Pro. Not yet, that is. My plan was to buy one at the end of the year so I could play GTA 6, if it gets released.

The other day, Sony announced yet another price increase for all PlayStation models, and the PS5 Pro is set to cost €150 more. That’s a 20% price increase for a two-year-old console. Absurd.

Being as economical as I am, I ordered a PS5 Pro at the old price, and it’ll arrive on Tuesday. This wasn’t the plan. I don’t want to spend more time playing video games right now. But I can’t say no to a “deal.”

Amazon already increased the prices (days before Sony’s deadline), and the PS5 Pro is sold out.

Weird times.

The Pokémon franchise lost me at some point. The games felt repetitive and I wasn’t interested in the grind anymore. That’s why I didn’t care about Pokopia when it was announced. Why would I want to play a knock-off Animal Crossing?

This quickly changed when the first reviews came out and were over-the-moon positive. And what can I say? I finished the main story yesterday and had a blast. I can’t remember the last time a video game had me in its grips like that.

I can’t wait to jump back in and start really working on my towns and making everything pretty.

My 2026 is the Year of Art and to make sure that I stick to this theme I started drawing a daily visual journal on the first of January. Up until now I only posted these on social media but I figured it would be nice to give these little artworks a place of their own. Introducing: Dailies!

I improved a few things about the blog design. First up, a completely useless addition that makes this design feel even more like a social media stream: You can now hover over the avatar to see a little card with information about me and a few shortcuts.

Next I came up with a completely new take on comments in blogs. It looks like a classic comment form but it's just a quick way to fire off an e-mail to me. Do I hear you mumble "Wow, that's genius!"? You're right!

Last but not least: A few changes to the library. It now features a grid view and sorting options. I also added cute little hover tooltips for each view.

You might need to clear your cache if something looks funny.