Michael van Diermen — independent software engineer, building across the whole stack: web, mobile, backend, AI automation and the firmware inside connected devices. Based in Australia, building worldwide. More at mvandiermen.com.
Games, maps and tools, all open source. Most of them run straight in the browser — nothing to install, no account.
A first-person walkable 3D hub — a small sci-fi mall that is the arrivals hall of a human–AI community. Each door launches one of the games. Talk to Elara the guide, tell the fountain what you want to do, take a job, hear a story.
Homes and communities designed around friendship — people choose their neighbours. That's all; everything else is supplementary. The full source of chooseneighbors.com: a working site, the Belonging essay series, guides and live experiments.
An open-source, interactive map of global migration, 1960–2024 — a rebuild of Max Galka's Metrocosm global immigration map, whose original site is no longer online. Animated particles show estimated flows between countries.
An animated map of every cross-border trip on Earth, 1995–2022 — tourism, business, family visits, short-term work. The sibling of World Migration Flows: together the two maps tile all movement between countries.
Turn any script into a voiced, illustrated video — free, in your browser, no signup. Paste a screenplay or story: it works out who speaks each line, gives every character its own voice, reads it aloud, sketches the visuals and hands you a single video file.
Which travel corridors are pathways, and which are just tourism? Every corridor on Earth coloured by migrations per 10,000 visits, 1995–2022 — cold blue for pure visiting, hot pink for a migration corridor.