Adrian Altner in Bangkok

Adrian Altner

Dresden, SN, Germany

I've been passionate about the web since 1997. Self-taught by nature, I build things for fun and teach myself whatever sparks my curiosity.

Photography is one of my main hobbies. I usually shoot while traveling and on photowalks, drawn to street scenes, architecture, and the kind of light that never waits.

On the Web

These links carry rel="me" for IndieWeb identity verification. My canonical identity is adrian-altner.de.

Now

Working through a backlog of photos from my last trip to Southeast Asia. Learning more about container orchestration and self-hosting in my spare time. Slowly reading through The Pragmatic Programmer for the second time.

Inspired by nownownow.com. Last updated April 2026.

This Site

Built with Astro and deployed on a self-hosted VPS in Germany. Content lives in Markdown files, versioned in Git. No tracking, no cookies, no JavaScript frameworks.

This site supports Webmentions — if you write about something here from your own site, I might see it. New posts are syndicated to Mastodon via POSSE.

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Projects

  • Image Voice Memos

    A native macOS app for browsing photos and recording voice memos — automatically transcribed using Apple's on-device Speech Recognition.

  • My Website

    I’m cultivating my own digital garden, a small piece of the internet.