Hi, I'm Lars (alias Hackebein), located in Germany. Full time nerd, full stack and DevOps engineer at day, VR addicted at night. I love proactively working on automatization and having fun with what I create. I'm engineering and operating e-commerce platforms for more than 12 years. My free time goes atm into a VPM Platform, hardware and product design for a remote controllable toy, and support for additional trackers for objects in VRChat.

License-respecting mirror of the VRChat Package Manager ecosystem. Aggregates public listings (free and paid), mirrors archives so they survive if the original host disappears, surfaces dependency graphs and filters.

• VPMM — try it
• Packaging tooling: hackebein.vpm.packager (C#, Unity editor)
• The vpm.hackebein.dev domain now CNAMEs to VPMM.

I'm a contributor to the VRChat community wiki. I was invited from the beginning, and I shaped a lot of it according to my own vision. I create many of the wiki pages and contribute widely across them, not just Packages and Leaks. The full contribution list is public.

VRChat Wiki Contributor VRChat Translator

The wiki mirror is the preservation move: a full MediaWiki → Git mirror, one commit per edit, git notes for resume, bootstrapped from a pre-state snapshot. Built because I grew uncertain how freely accessible the wiki would remain under Cloudflare bot protection.

• wiki.vrchat.com (Python) — full MediaWiki → Git mirror
• VPMM-connector-VRCWiki (Go) — VPMM ↔ wiki bridge
• vrc-api2wiki (Go) — VRChat API → wiki

I write about the systems I work on — wiki pages and documentations. Outside of VRChat, too.

I file bug reports, and try to break things before you do it. It just happens when I touch it. I'm currently working on a GitHub runner which is capable of running 1x VR, +3x Desktop for automated world and avatar tests.

Community Tester (Top Contributor)

The Canny scraper is an implementation of VRChat's Canny feedback board, with full Lucene search and proper previews. Canny's built-in search is a joke. This project costs about $7 per month, and VRChat is an enterprise customer spending thousands of dollars per month on the platform.

• feedback.vrchat.com (TypeScript)
• Live search: vrchat-canny.hackebein.dev

Real-world objects in VRChat via SteamVR/OpenVR trackers. Sold on Steam as a Supporter Version. The performance art shares the same rig: I do aerial hoop, pole dance, and swinging bench in VR with the tracker. The repository is currently not public.

• Project board — roadmap & task overview
• Steam — auto-updating build and supporter version
• vpm.hackebein.dev — VPM listing for packages

• App (Python) — outdated desktop tracking daemon
• Unitypackage (C#) — outdated avatar-side companion

VRChat Video as OBS Media Source. Catches the playing video inside VRChat as its own OBS media source.

• VaOBS (Go)

Anime/Japan convention in Düsseldorf, I've been involved since 2013 — Retro Arcade cabinets in the early years, gate / info support later. Currently core team of logistics and managing the VIP area. The convention has grown from a small (~500 visitors) local event to something much larger (~200k visitors), and it still feels like the same friendly environment.

I host gameservers since 2016, For hosting I prefer Docker, and maintain my own images for the games I run, some are public:

• docker-garrysmod — Garry's Mod
• docker-srcds — Source Dedicated Server (any Source engine game)
• docker-csgo — CS:GO
• docker-ts3server — TeamSpeak 3

Since 2019 I run GTA Roleplay community host for FiveM, alt:V, RageMP. One community has been running on three cron jobs for years (backups, system updates, docker updates). Not glamorous. Just works.

Things I produced along the way: docker-steamcmd, wireshark-dissector-coyote3, Hyperate-Desktop, VRC12Photos, pro.poiyomi.com.

• Website: hackebein.de
• Discord: Hackebein's Research Lab — my own project server
• Bluesky: @hackebe.in
• X: @Hackebein
• Telegram: @Hackebein
• Patreon: hackebein
• PGP key: DE68 1625 8EC5 0065 7141 3536 358C F569 8DDD 556E