About Me

Hi! I am Florian Scherf from Hildesheim in Germany. I was born in 94 and have worked as a full-stack web developer since 2013.
I do most of my work in Python, TypeScript, and JavaScript. I have some experience with C, C++, PHP, Rust, and Go, and a lot of experience with unit and end-to-end testing, CI, and CD.

I dedicated a big part of my career to Web development and the tooling around it. I always loved Python and Django, but I have never been fond of the tooling available for frontend work in the Python ecosystem. So I created Lona and later falk to bridge this gap.
While Lona is more tailored to projects that need very fine control over the rendering pipeline and fast updates in the browser, falk, with its stateless server architecture, is meant for projects where scaling across multiple processes, servers, or even physical data centers is needed.

This very blog you are reading right now is rendered by LimePress, a static site generator I wrote from scratch as the spiritual successor to Flamingo, a former project of mine.

A toy project of mine is pillowfort, which is the start of a custom 2D (maybe 3D in the future) game engine for multiplayer browser games, written in TypeScript.
Not because it makes sense to build a game engine from scratch, but because it's fun :)

I love to create my own tools. As such, I created rlpython, a simple and easy-to-use Python REPL and debugger that I still use on a daily basis.

For documentation, I created Milan, a browser-testing and video-capturing tool to generate mockups and demos.

I am a heavy user of Grafana and created prometheus-virtual-metrics to make almost anything discoverable with Grafana, using very simple Python code.

In my career, I created and maintained multiple web-based services, like accounting solutions, web shops, or a web-based interface for a company-wide phone system, and more recently, web-based AI chat bots.

I am no designer, by no stretch of the word, but I can spot bad design when I see it. I implemented multiple corporate web designs, collaborating with one or more designers, at this point, using technologies like HTML5, CSS3, and Sass. Most of them are still in use to this day.

I am very passionate about open-source. I would describe myself as a platform developer since most of my projects are frameworks meant to enable others to create useful tools.

At all the companies I worked at, I created internal tooling and libraries and tried to push my open-source-shaped mindset of sharing code and working together.

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