tobyx.com is designed and written by Tobias Horvath.

Established in 1999, this site has certainly been a host of neglected experiments culminating in what you find here today. I got a cool domain name out of it though.

The Person

I’m a visual effects and finishing artist by trade, hobbyist web developer, and enthusiast of all things tech. I write fiction in my spare time, but you won’t find links to any of that here (yet).

I’m a work in progress, just like this site. I’m learning to balance ambition with humility, creativity with focus, and always striving to be better—at my craft, and as a human being.

The Business

In 2024, I founded MOMO&TOBI with the best business partner imaginable. Together, we are two industry professionals with a combined total of over three decades of experience partnering with high-value clients and brands as a remote-first video post-production house.

Essential Tools

Coded in Nova and written in iA Writer on a MacBook Pro. Sometimes I write on an iPad Pro, but publishing from there requires jumping through way too many hoops as you can’t set up a local development environment on the device.

Most graphics are edited in the Affinity suite of software.

Built With

This site is generated in Jekyll with fully custom HTML and CSS. All development is done locally, and production builds are synced to the server stack with rsync.

Build Principles

No cookies. No tracking. Analytics are privacy-preserving. No external resources loaded.

Everything you see here was created from scratch, with a focus on simplicity and function. Nothing more, nothing less. The site is supposed to load blazingly fast, even with web fonts (served locally) and minimal use of graphics and images.