My name is Sebastian Krauß, I live in Bremen, Germany. I’m a software engineer and have a very weird sense of humour.
To put it simply, I take a selfie every day. This has been going on for twelve and a half years now.
These are the first and the last picture. They are twelve and a half years apart:
This is my Timelapse video:
The video was exported at 30 fps – meaning that one month in real life is shown in one second. The video gets smoother towards the end.
And here’s a few select images, ordered by category. The images in the categories are sorted chronologically. Hover over the images for a brief description. (Sorry, desktop only. If you know how to configure Final Tiles to show descriptions on mobile, please let me know.)
Good Days
There were bad days and there were good days. Many of the good days were around G forces.
There’s video evidence of me having fun:
Jais Flight, the world’s longest zipline. Jebel Jais, UAE, 24.10.2025:
Orlando Slingshot. Orlando, Florida, 30.01.2026:
Travelling
I did not really get to travel a lot until 2020; my father sat in a wheelchair and needed a lot of care.
In 2025, I started traveling a lot more. With a new role in the company came the chance to occasionally see a little of the world beyond the trip from the airport to the customer or a venue.
If you didn’t recognize the backdrop of the image taken in London on 06.09.2025, pause at 0:08 in this video. Seriously.
It’s – mostly – work, though
Most of these recent travels meant wearing a name tag and talking about the world’s best mail server – Dovecot. Well, and Web UIs for Email.
Apple
I’ve been a software developer for Apple platforms for most of my life. Apple and their products play a big role in my life.
I started with an Apple //c. My first Mac was a Mac plus in the mid 80s. You get the idea.
Walks
I spend as much time outside as I can. Give me a forest or a river and footpath and I’m happy.
Fortunately, I live in a beautiful area with lots of nice spots.
Random Images
Just a couple of random images.
This, by the way, was the harvest:
What are the odds?
My employer knows how important social relations between humans are and honors this by inviting everyone to some fantastic location for a couple of days each year. We do workshops and talks but also have some time for fun.
In 2025, we met in Prague.
Our (the team from Bremen) flight home was from Prague to Frankfurt and then from Frankfurt to Bremen.
When we boarded the plane to Bremen, we noticed that we actually boarded the very same plane with the very same crew we had when flying into Frankfurt.
I, however, was not only in the very same plane but sat on the very same seat: 9F.
According to publicly available sources, it happened only exactly one time in 2025 that the very same plane was used from Prague to Frankfurt and then from Frankfurt to Bremen.
Which gives you a probability of ~0.3% of that happening when boarding your plane in Frankfurt.
But what are the odds of being in the same seat then?
Dear Lufthansa,
We have had our ups and downs. (Haha!) – But we have generally always liked each other. Most of the travels above wouldn’t have been possible without you.
That story above will no longer be possible after you recently announced to cut my home town of Bremen off your biggest hub Frankfurt in July 2026.
Please reconsider. Not only for me this would be a great loss. – Please.
I took this daily selfie for you when changing planes in Munich to maybe convince you to change your mind. Happy 100th!
Technical Stuff
The selfies were taken with different iPhones I have owned over the past ten years.
- iPhone 5
- iPhone 5s
- iPhone 6 Plus
- iPhone 7 Plus
- iPhone X
- iPhone 12 Pro Max
- iPhone 15 Pro Max
The Software
Timeshutter is the app I used to take a selfie every day and to position my face. Timeshutter has worked great until September 2023.
Long story short, in 2025 – after Timeshutter had been abandoned for a couple of years – I saw the necessity to write something myself.
I’ve been developing software for Apple devices for long enough in order to be able to write a simple app that allows me to display a mask overlay in the camera, take an image and in the end export everything as a movie.
So I started doing that. – But something else happened: AI
Without the help of AI I would have never been able to do the math behind all the face alignment.
The movie above was entirely exported with the app I coded with the help of AI; Intros, outros, adding background music – all done inside the app.
The app I (and Claude) wrote is called TMLP. Download it for free on the App Store.
