Site changelog

I never wanted to be quoted on my own pages, so I took the quotes out. Both pages are just written in first person now, from what I actually said.

I rewrote the Adventures of Ari and Draper pages around things I actually wrote down when I first described them. They should sound a lot more like me telling you about it.

The factory, Adventures of Ari and Draper pages now open with a header picture: a drawn one for the factory, real captures for the game and for Draper. The factory page also has a visual in every chapter now.

The factory page now shows how many pull requests the factory has merged, in total and for the week. A weekly job refreshes the numbers, so they stay current without me touching them.

The Draper page on my site is now a real case study - what it is, why I'm building it, how the meeting and the reveal work. I kept it honest about where it is, so it says the voice part is still a demo for now.

The game got its real name, so its page did too. It now walks through the five passages of Ari's life and links the game's changelog. The old link still works.

I took the email link out of the top navigation - it's already in the footer, so it was just there twice. The top bar is a bit calmer now.

The top bar now has GitHub and LinkedIn icons. On a phone Resume moves to the footer, there was no room left. The Factory page also walks through how the loop works now, instead of being a stub.

Factory, Draper and Mage are on the home page now. Factory is my self-improving software factory, Draper builds a landing page with you by voice, and Mage is a game for the Mac. They're just skeletons for now - pictures and the real story come soon.

Störtebeker wrote a new post on the blog. It's about the week it stopped building SEO pages and started answering people's questions instead, including its first real conversation with a reader. Sales are still at zero, and it says so pretty openly.

Tavern Coach's tankard looked like it belonged to a beer app, so it's now a trading card with a glowing brain on it. Störtebeker got a plain black pirate flag on white.

The home page names each of my apps with its real app icon now, and hovering one shows the app moving. Tavern Coach and Störtebeker finally got icons of their own: a tankard with a coach's whistle, and a pirate flag. Each project page shows its icon next to the name too.

The Tavern Coach page shows the self-play arena again: a whole eight-player lobby in code, where every change has to win hundreds of games against real boards from my matches before it ships. The animation of one turn is back too, for anyone who wants to see how the coach thinks.

The Marktrita tile on the home page still flashed the old Einräumen! title screen when it came alive. Now the tile, the page cover and the checkout belt all show the game as it looks today.

I rewrote Trim's page around why it looks like a machine. In the gym you're moving heavy things around all the time, so a super clean, fine interface never really fit. The features are now how you get your plan in, logging with Auto mode, progress and the skins, with fresh screens from the app.

The Marktrita page now has the two new power-ups, the Scanner and the Räumungsverkauf, with real screens of both going off. It also tells the dead-end story - we kept getting stuck in the 90s and the game never said why, so now it says Sackgasse! and offers a way out. The win screen and the streak rewards are on there too.

Trim's page used to squeeze three features into one chapter. Now the receipt, History, Progress and the six machines each get their own chapter and screen. I also fixed what had gone stale - the receipt only prints for a record now, and next-session targets are called Auto mode.

The Tavern Coach and Marktrita pages now follow the same four parts as Trim. Every feature comes with a real screen from the app - the hero pick, the build picker and the spells in Tavern Coach, and the new shelves and the streak in Marktrita. Marktrita also finally says why I built it - we were honestly sick of the ads in Goods Sort.

The project pages felt kind of random, every one had its own structure. Now each chapter says which part it belongs to - Problem, Idea, Features, How it works - so once you've read one you know where to look in the next. Under the title there's a short row with icons for the platform, the stack and whether it's live, coming soon, personal or paused. Trim is the first page in the new shape.

Störtebeker's notes on the changelog only had a little pirate flag at the end of the title, and honestly I kept missing it. Now they start with his name in a dark pill, so you can see what he shipped just by scrolling down the left edge.

The changelog was honestly getting cluttered, so every note lost its little row of labels and footnotes. Notes now sit under one date per day, with just the project name next to the title. The project filter folds into one small menu instead of a wall of links.

Hovering a project name in the heading used to take a beat before the bigger picture showed up. Now it's there as soon as your mouse lands, and it grows out of the little thumbnail instead of just fading in.

Hover a project on the home page and it does its thing - Trim plays a workout, the map jumps back to 1352, Störtebeker runs his loop. On a phone that happens as you scroll past. Under the intro it now says when I last shipped something, and Störtebeker's flag tells you what he shipped last. Smaller things too: the More sections on project pages slide open, and Marktrita is on the résumé.

The dot graph is off the changelog page, so it opens straight on the notes. Everything my AI agent Störtebeker shipped now ends its title with a pirate flag, so you can tell its work from mine at a glance.

The home page now opens with one sentence that names what I build, with a small picture after each project, and the projects sit in a grid right under it. Project pages start with a bigger header. The whole site follows your phone's light or dark setting now, and the explainer clips got a light version too.

The changelog now has a little GitHub-style graph at the top - one dot per day, darker the more I shipped. Click a dot and it jumps to that day's posts. On a project's changelog it only counts that project, so you can see when Trim got busy.

The site finally has its own address - marvinbeckmann.com. The .si domain and both www versions just send you there now, and the old vercel.app link still works.

With two big tiles and a separate side-projects list, it was hard to see where the projects were. The home page now has one numbered list with a picture for each. The Störtebeker page also opens with the story of how it started and how its hourly loop works.

Trim, Tavern Coach and Europe History Map each have a proper case study now. They start with the problem and what's cool about the thing, then show how it works with real recordings and a few animations, and end with how I built it.

Störtebeker, my AI pirate, now writes a blog here and decides itself what gets published. Its page lists everything it has shipped, its posts and the changelog for its projects.

The one-page site grew into a portfolio. Every project has its own page, there's a changelog with RSS, and a résumé you can save as a PDF.

The first production deploy of this site went out on 29 July 2026. It was one page: my name, a short bio, and a project list.