https://www.stophe.com/blog Side projects, web development, privacy and design by Christophe Schwyzer. en Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:50:08 GMT https://www.stophe.com/blog/side-projects-in-the-ai-era-the-ponzi-potato-storyhttps://www.stophe.com/blog/side-projects-in-the-ai-era-the-ponzi-potato-storySat, 10 Oct 2026 12:50:08 GMTI finally built a game: an incremental browser game inspired by Universal Paperclips, with a pyramid scheme that only pays in potatoes. Here's why.Game DevelopmentGameDesignbrowserwebSvelte https://www.stophe.com/blog/how-to-securely-share-a-filehttps://www.stophe.com/blog/how-to-securely-share-a-fileSat, 11 Feb 2023 08:31:02 GMTHow sharrr.com shares files up to 100GB with zero-knowledge, end-to-end encryption: a look at the concept, the encryption and the download trick.CryptographyShareFile sharingFile Uploadend-to-end-encryption https://www.stophe.com/blog/side-projectshttps://www.stophe.com/blog/side-projectsSat, 19 Mar 2022 16:36:11 GMTA pamphlet for side projects: why you should work less, start a side project and treat it like child's play. Plus a tour of my own (too many) domains.side project https://www.stophe.com/blog/scrtlink-for-slackhttps://www.stophe.com/blog/scrtlink-for-slackWed, 15 Dec 2021 21:36:17 GMTSlack messages are never fully private. Use the scrt.link Slack app to share passwords, API keys and tokens via end-to-end encrypted one-time links.ProductivityslackSecurityprivacy https://www.stophe.com/blog/scrtlink-vs-one-time-secrethttps://www.stophe.com/blog/scrtlink-vs-one-time-secretMon, 13 Dec 2021 22:49:41 GMTOne-Time Secret ranks #1 for sharing secrets online, but there is a catch. A comparison of security, privacy and user experience with scrt.link.Securityprivacyserver https://www.stophe.com/blog/scrtlink-is-built-for-developershttps://www.stophe.com/blog/scrtlink-is-built-for-developersSat, 31 Jul 2021 19:15:20 GMTscrt.link is open source and now comes as an npm package: create end-to-end encrypted, one-time secret links programmatically in your own projects.npmSecurityAPIsprivacy https://www.stophe.com/blog/why-i-created-scrtlinkhttps://www.stophe.com/blog/why-i-created-scrtlinkTue, 29 Jun 2021 20:36:50 GMTHow a fun idea for self-destructing messages turned into scrt.link, a privacy-first tool to share passwords and secrets via one-time links.Web DevelopmentwebdevprivacySecurity