Pixel Poetry

I'm Marc — a Swiss web engineer who has spent the last decade helping newsrooms turn complex data into stories people actually read. I joined Tages-Anzeiger's data journalism team in 2015 — the early days of scrollytelling — and have been obsessed with the format ever since. I now lead technical architecture at The New Humanitarian, where I build award-winning interactive investigations for stories that matter.

Pixel Poetry is what I do in the margins — a place to publish essays on topics I find genuinely alarming, fascinating, or hard to stop thinking about. There are only two pieces so far. That is not a strategy deck; it is just where the project is.

Each essay takes one subject — diet, longevity, the systems behind the headlines — and tries to stay with it for a little longer than the Internet usually allows. Chapter by chapter, scroll beat by scroll beat. Sometimes that means a chart. Sometimes a quote. Sometimes just a paragraph that needed room to breathe.

I try to source the important claims and be honest about the limits. I am not claiming to explain everything. Mostly, I am trying to understand things in public without getting too high on my own certainty.

Not medical advice. Not a newsletter, at least not yet. Not a recipe site, a diet plan, or a supplement brand. Just essays — careful where they can be, imperfect where they must be, and hopefully useful enough to justify the scroll.

The project is built with SvelteKit. Each explainer is a self-contained data module — chapters, sources, terms, and image manifest live together in src/lib/explainers/<slug>/. The shared pieces — scrolly layout, charts, navigation, source sheets — are slowly becoming a small storytelling toolkit. Slowly is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

The source code is on GitHub.