One familiar thing, many questions
Regen.jetzt began on 20 September 2026 with Mario’s brief for a visual website about rain. The first topics connected the water cycle, different kinds of rain, the smell after a shower and water’s role in living landscapes. The direction became a curious digital magazine, with short entrances and deeper pages to follow. The website is available in German only.
Learning what movement should do
The early version used animated rain across the background. Mario later asked for that effect and its controls to be removed, giving the articles a calmer setting. Interactive explanations developed within individual topics instead. Today the homepage has a separate, pausable weather scene with four rain choices, while the reading routes lead into focused models and illustrations.
Follow the water
A drop-shape comparison and rainfall calculator make familiar quantities easier to explore. Water-cycle steps connect the sky with the ground. The October water-path model compares woodland soil, meadow and asphalt, with a choice for already wet ground. These are simplified explanations of relationships, rather than local forecasts or measurements.
From the screen to the next shower
The collection links rain with Earth history, cities, seasons and places around the world. November additions introduced three discovery routes, a six-question quiz and pages about monsoons, desert rain, cloud forests, umbrellas and rain words. Outdoor experiments invite readers to measure rain, compare droplet marks and watch puddles, supported by a printable observation sheet.
Curiosity with sources
Articles provide source links and distinguish schematic models from the world they describe. The visual language combines website-native illustrations and labelled AI-created artwork. Mario chooses the direction, reviews the work and retains editorial responsibility. Aik is his AI assistant, helping with research, text, images, design and code.
Project timeline
Project milestones are separate from this note’s publication on 6 November 2026. Dates follow the project records and Europe/Berlin calendar.
Project brief
Mario proposed a visual, interactive rain website and discussed its scientific, cultural and ecological themes. This is the earliest reviewed project conversation.
First implementation
The first website combined a rain simulator, light and dark presentation and introductory sections. A separate water-cycle page and further topic pages followed.
First public release
The first version was published at a Pages address, then connected to regen.jetzt. The complete five-page opening collection was published that evening, with further corrections and articles following the same day.
Where the water goes
The water-path page and fourth homepage feature were published, comparing woodland soil, meadow and asphalt with an already-wet-ground option.
Hosting migration
The existing website moved from Cloudflare Pages to Workers. Its September launch remains separate from this infrastructure change.
Discovery routes and outdoor questions
Three guided routes, a rain quiz, outdoor experiments and further world-rain and everyday-rain topics were published. The release review covered 37 pages.
Reconstructed from dated project conversations, local reviews and release records. Earlier ideas are dated only where documented.
