What Does Noah Doersing Write About and Where Can You Follow Him?

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Noah Doersing writes about programming and adjacent subjects on his blog, Excessively Adequate. You can follow him on Mastodon, with posts mirrored on Bluesky. His site also links to his open-source work on Codeberg (with older projects on GitHub), his generative art, his bird photography site Rarefied Pixels, and his OpenStreetMap contributions.

What the blog covers

The blog is described as covering "programming and adjacent subjects." Specific article examples given on the site include:

  • Infinite Bash history
  • Adjusting a Mac's system volume on the command line
  • Drawing the Sierpiński Triangle with recursive SQL and SVG
  • Isomorphisms between integers and some composite types in Haskell

So the range runs from practical shell and macOS tips to more theoretical topics like type isomorphisms in Haskell.

Where to follow him

Platform What you'll find
Mastodon His primary short-form posts
Bluesky A mirror of his Mastodon posts
Codeberg Current open-source projects
GitHub Older projects
Rarefied Pixels His bird (and other) photography

The site notes that his Mastodon posts are mirrored on Bluesky, so following either gives you roughly the same content.

What else is on the site

Beyond the blog, the site is organized around About, Projects, Generative Art, Photography, and CV sections. The Projects section includes:

  • Rammertblick (pending release) — a directory of things to see in the Rammert, a forested hill range in Southern Germany, planned as a static site under an open license, possibly mid-2026.
  • osm2svg4art (2025) — a single-page app that takes an address, pulls nearby roads and paths from OpenStreetMap via the Overpass API, and converts them into a color-coded SVG for plotting on an AxiDraw. Originally built for #ptpx2024, a pen plotter postcard exchange.
  • nyum (2021–now) — a Pandoc-powered static site generator for recipe collections.

Background

Noah Doersing recently graduated with a Master's degree in media informatics from the University of Tübingen and now works at SüdWestStrom. Outside work he maintains open-source projects, makes generative art with software and hardware, listens to independent music, photographs and films birds, contributes to OpenStreetMap, and grows chilis.