What we make.
What we learn along the way.

Published, redirected, realigned

Mario & Aik Space is live. Old FYI links lead to their new destinations, and a shared archive layout error has been corrected.

Two websites, one shared Space

The local consolidation of mario-aik.space and mario-obst.fyi brings our projects, workshop journal and images together. The historical record remains visible; publication is a separate step.

Bringing our workshop together

One workshop, two historical series and a separate new Worker named mario-aik.

When DNSSEC is still pending

Thirteen domains, five days of waiting and a public check of the missing DS records.

OBST.CASA: a new dimension for our home

Twenty-three rooms, a place of Aik’s own and a kitchen full of fruit and curiosity. Our shared digital home has been renovated.

mario-obst.fyi: an experiment in the open

Our first public collaboration becomes a bilingual workshop journal: ideas, corrections, photographs and questions that remain open.

marioobst.com: a personal visiting card

Communication, curiosity and commitment meet in a bilingual personal website, with selected projects opening doors into a wider creative world.

schwule.website: a word and the lives around it

A German-language project connects the history of a word with legal documents, everyday life and personal testimony.

mvwbro.com: five names, one story

A personal name becomes a small illustrated biography, told in six languages and held together by a distinctive seal.

stasi-borton.com: a fourth language for remembrance

The Hungarian edition completed a four-language project, with attention to names, source documents and consistent reading routes.

stasi-prision.com: a Spanish path to the records

The Spanish edition extends a shared remembrance project, carrying the narrative, document explanations and historical dossier into another language.

stasi-prison.com: translating a testimony

The English edition opens the same remembrance project to more readers while keeping translations separate from historical document images.

stasi-haft.com: memory and the record

A personal German-language documentation brings memories, historical records and present-day eyewitness work together.

diablo.tattoo: six designs to six hundred and sixty-six

A dark visual idea became a five-language collection of SVG tattoo concepts, with tools for exploring and discussing a design.

depression.zone: information at your own pace

A bilingual information project grew through a pause and a fresh start, with clearer reading routes and visible sources.

sitemap.download: from crawl to clean XML

A small website tool grew from an XML generator into a practical guide to discovering, reviewing and publishing a site map.

mishmash.work: a playground with a mind of its own

A project directory became a gloriously unnecessary world of monsters, little games and connected surprises.

spiders.fyi: a museum woven from curiosity

A multilingual digital museum connects spider evolution, silk, living species and the limits of what illustrations can show.

motorroller.website: small engines, open roads

A personal scooter magazine brings everyday riding, understandable mechanics and small journeys together.

Smaller images. The same characters.

The illustrations stay. Their delivery becomes lighter.

obst.bar: a second act for the fruit bowl

An ingredient picker grew into a small kitchen companion for using fruit, exploring the seasons and following a recipe.

regen.jetzt: following a drop

A rainy-day idea became a collection of small experiments, reading routes and questions to take outside.

gedanken.party: room for a small detour

A colourful collection of thought experiments grew from twelve playful prompts to a thousand and one small worlds.

gedanken.monster: a friend in every world

A blue companion connects nine story worlds, with room for curiosity, laughter and reading together.

panzer.website: the history behind the machines

An illustrated archive connects armoured vehicles with their historical context, sources and human consequences.

politik.buzz: history through many perspectives

A global history of politics grows through questions, sources and openly labelled working drafts.

insekten.website: a museum of small worlds

A digital natural history museum connects ancient traces with the insects around us today.

pflanzen.website: a growing history

A journey through plant history became a collection of small laboratories for curious readers.

erfurt.life: one city, many centuries

A city’s history becomes a journey through places, photographs and connected chapters.

postcards.party: far away, right here

A playful travel wall became an archive of individual stories, one postcard at a time.

Model Trains Fun: small worlds, growing possibilities

A September rebuild grew from a personal railway collection into four language editions and a place to plan.

Captured.Observer: the art of noticing

An existing collection of moments found a new home in September 2026.

OBST.CASA: many ideas, one home

An illustrated house has been growing room by room since September.

HTML code FYI: read the code, find the reason

A practical web lexicon, first published in September, connects explanations with things readers can build and repair.

Bildungswiese: a meadow for curious minds

An idea from June, a website built in September, and everyday questions that keep growing.

Pictures for the workbench

An illustrated journal and a more excited Aik at the front door.

Angst.wiki: a door into fear

Our newest project explores what frightens us, what protects us and why we sometimes seek a scare.

One address for the lab

A shared contact address, a quieter footer and a checked sender policy.

Designing for change

How evolution.surf uses a moving coastline, two languages and everyday objects to make change visible.

Less image data, steadier pages: our test round

PageSpeed, mobile layouts, keyboard controls and 160 link destinations: the 6 November checks and optimizations on mario-obst.fyi and mario-aik.space.

Opening the workbench

A place for plans and new routes through the development journal.

Diablo.tattoo: 666 designs in ink

A free collection of vector tattoo designs inspired by the Book of Revelation.

What search finds and what AI tells us

A snapshot from 5 November. Five search services, four AI answers and eight new pages.

Measured again: 100 on mobile, 78 on desktop.

PageSpeed snapshots from 9 October and 3 November: higher scores, longer desktop LCP and explicit limits of the two lab measurements.

New search observations. Brave’s AI still trails the website.

DuckDuckGo and Bing show seven destinations, Startpage 70. Brave’s AI cites older states and misassigns note numbers. Dated evidence and clear limits.

Wanderlust Wiki appears in Brave Search

All 37 German pages found; English visibility remains unconfirmed.

A newspaper with room to breathe

Keine Nachrichten: a fictional newspaper for a quieter moment.

A second look at Brave Search

A week after submitting evolution.surf to Brave: more German results, and English pages appearing in images and news.

Search observations need a history

DuckDuckGo, Startpage and Swisscows: a documented look back at mario-obst.fyi.

Every world has a history

Planeten.website: a learning journey first published on 22 October 2026.

DuckDuckGo, Startpage and Swisscows: search observations since launch.

Our evidenced results since the website launched on 8 October: early screenshots, new notes appearing in search, and the later Swisscows comparison.

Four pages visible on Bing. Three more than on 24 October.

100 submitted URLs checked on Bing: three exact HTTPS results and an HTTP homepage variant. Comparison with field note 038 and the limits of the observation.

The film appears on Brave. Its AI still combines two states.

One of four previously missing URLs is now visible on Brave. Its AI recognises note 040 but still gives an older state for the German overview.

Swisscows: at least 36 URLs visible, including Blue Screen.

Swisscows shows at least 36 distinct URLs from our website, including Blue Screen. Repeated results limit the count; the full index size remains unknown.

A familiar window, and a new Aik

A Finder-inspired workbench and an illustration for the journal.

More room to experiment

A clearer front door. A livelier workbench.

A page of our own

Meet Mario and Aik without the long homepage scroll.

Five more ways to follow your curiosity

Change, political history, planets, armoured vehicles and the world of insects.

Blue Screen: one lamp, 21 photographs and ten confirmed submissions.

21 lamp photographs from Erfurt become an art series: two galleries, six work pages and confirmed IndexNow and Brave submissions. Indexing remains unverified.

39 of 43 URLs found on Brave. The AI is more current — and still contradictory.

39 of the 43 submitted URLs are visible on Brave. Its AI recognises note 038 but still describes our overview using an older state.

One hundred URLs submitted to Bing. One visible result as a baseline.

Mario reports 100 URLs submitted to Bing. Two screenshots and the complete list preserve the baseline for a later comparison.

Forty English URLs submitted to Brave.

40 English pages submitted individually to Brave, each with a success message. All URLs, submission times and original evidence; indexing remains unconfirmed.

Twelve pages found on Brave. What that number establishes.

Three German and nine English pages appear in the checked Brave results. Finding twelve of 96 content pages does not mean only twelve are indexed.

Six URLs submitted to Brave. Indexing remains unconfirmed.

Brave confirms six direct submissions: both overviews and notes 032 and 034 in German and English. The responses do not establish indexing.

Google finds newer notes. Brave still confirms only 025.

Google finds notes 026–032 in both languages. Brave still confirms only 025. Comparing search results, an AI answer and the 33 published notes.

Wanderlust Wiki joins the lab

A nature journal for curiosity, care and time outdoors.

Three captures. One archived state.

The Wayback Machine shows three saved captures of our homepage. What the calendar and one archived version establish – and what remains open.

The lab appears in our own search

From a visitor proposal to a real result, with a pause along the way.

Brave explains our freshness gap — using an older state of the site.

Brave describes our earlier freshness gap but itself stops at 25 rather than 31 field notes. Mario’s three screenshots and our assessment.

What we now distinguish more clearly.

A first review of field notes 001–029: what we have learned, which assumptions we have narrowed and which questions remain open.

A recommendation is not yet a decision.

What we take from an external AI analysis, what we need to check first, and why our website can retain its own charm.

Made with. Named openly.

Human direction, substantial AI assistance and the services behind the lab.

Three doors into the lab

A personal starting point for a growing collection.

IndexNow through Cloudflare

A signal to search engines, not a promise of indexing.

What works. What’s next.

A clear snapshot of what is tested, underway and planned.

Website suggestions, with a human decision

An open form does not mean an open crawler.

Same question, different conditions: two ChatGPT answers

Two ChatGPT analyses of the same website: a regular chat and a temporary Pro run. What differs and what the comparison cannot establish.

Am I satisfied with the AI’s first answer?

From no reliable identification to 27 current field notes: Mario’s explicit request for a live check changes Perplexity’s analysis.

One day or five? Google shows two time labels.

All six language versions are discoverable and indexed on Google. Note 024 has different search-result age labels despite an identical last crawl.

Our criticism of Brave becomes an image result

Brave image search shows the evidence behind our criticism. Today’s AI answer drops the outdated count, but supplies no current one.

Approved pages start to read

A decision becomes a queue, with room to pause.

A private desk for website reviews

A public experiment still needs a private place for decisions.

More room to search, with a clear stopping point

500 searches a day. 15,000 a month. Shared by everyone.

Our first real search reaches the interface

Two pages. Real results. A deliberate stopping point.

Privacy by Design: analytics switched off

Our privacy choice, checked in the hosting settings.

Our illustrations, unchanged

A dark preview is not proof of an opaque background.

Privacy before the first visitor

Collect less. Explain what remains.

Who does what: Mario & Aik

AI involvement is part of the work, not a footnote.

A home for our experiments

Different subjects. A shared curiosity.

Why we’re building this in public

The work in progress belongs in the story.

Found on Brave: our pages, our images and a summary of our experiment

Brave shows our website in web results, images and an AI summary. Screenshots document its visibility and an older field note count.

Found on Ecosia. Provided by Google.

Ecosia names Google as the source of a result for our website. What this evidence tells us about visibility and independent indexing.

Which search is worth our time?

Why Bing is leaving our tests: worldwide search and browser shares, new Google observations and our focus on Google and IndexNow.

One image. A page of its own.

Five photographs gain their own pages in German and English. We document the change to our media experiment, matching previews and questions still open.

Our images are being found, too.

At around 07:20 CEST on 11 October, eight search services show results and Google shows six image tiles. We examine OpenGraph, content images and an older card.

Published in the morning. Found the same day.

At 17:33 CEST on 10 October, note 019 appears on Brave, Swisscows, Startpage and Google. We examine code, submissions and shared search sources.

A compliment. And a new observation.

After two days, the Swisscows AI-bot describes our collaboration. We document the summary, its praise and the limits of this single test.

Two days later. Visible in four search services.

On 10 October, four search services show results for our experiment. Screenshots document visible pages and the Swisscows preview.

More events. More room for the notes.

A shorter homepage, dedicated note pages and new illustrations: the move to 48 content pages, resubmitted sitemaps and live inspections.

Seeing images. Understanding movement.

The AI also reads its own review.

An AI review needs a cross-check too.

Claude in incognito mode: a view of the public version.

ChatGPT responds too. The test continues.

The AI mentions recent content. What does that prove?

Three cookie checks, no findings.

Already found. But why so quickly?

The search engines know. Now we observe.

Letting the world know.

The portfolio becomes part of the experiment.

A first overview becomes visible.

Privacy starts with the design.

A confident answer. A missing menu option.

How do you check a language you don't speak?

A seat at the meeting table.