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Just You Wait – Chris Shiflett 🔗

Chris Shiflett turned 50 in May and wrote a piece about it that I keep thinking about and that I kept marked as “unread” in my RSS reader to come back [...]

Where is my Drive, my Energy? 🔗

This post is visible to RSS subscribers only. What? Read more about RSS Club. This morning, I once more had one of the [...]

Exactly What He Says (Quote) 🔗

Exactly what VFX Supervisor Marion Spates says here. […] I mean I hope everyone is excited as I am about what I do. The one thing I try to encourage e [...]

André Michelle Speaking at TYPO3 Developer Days 🔗

This was the second talk I recommended as part of the beyond tellerrand partnership with TYPO3. They invited me to curate a few slots at this year at [...]

Matthias Ott Speaking at TYPO3 Developer Days 🔗

As part of the beyond tellerrand partnership with TYPO3, TYPO3 invited me to curate a few slots at this year’s developer days. For one of the slots [...]

What Makes a Conference Great 🔗

A few days ago, right after I posted my write-up of Head in the Cloud, my friend Sacha Judd, who spoke at beyond tellerrand three times already, publi [...]

Gianni Infantino Acts Disgusting 🔗

It is absolutely disgusting to see just how corrupt an organisation like FIFA is. We knew it all along, of course, but having it laid out so openly, a [...]

Head in the Cloud 2026 🔗

Last Friday I got to open the Head in the Cloud summit by mittwald in Espelkamp. And honestly, I’m still wondering a little how that happened. ;) Phot [...]

Off to Espelkamp to open mittwald’s Head in the Cloud Summit 🔗

I am off to Espelkamp, where mittwald run their Event Head in the Cloud. After sending in a Call for Papers, I found out that they’d wanted me to open [...]

Off to Amsterdam for CSSday 🔗

Looking forward to getting to Amsterdam tomorrow morning. Can’t wait to meet people for the next three days. Are you there? Reply via Email [...]

Lovely Idea: Speaker RSS Feeds – FFconf 🔗

I really am a big fan of having an archive of what happened throughout all the years of an event. Speakers, slides, videos, additional coverage and so [...]

16 Years Flashforum Closed its Doors 🔗

This year, 16 years ago, I closed the doors of Flashforum.de. Good memories and somehow the start of what now is beyond tellerrand. Reply vi [...]

I think the latest Apple Keyboard was verschlimmbessert 🔗

In March 2021 I got my last keyboard. Since I don’t like the idea of dongles, I tend to get Apple’s original keyboard. I also quite like how it feels [...]

Attention: Fake Reminders Regarding the Renewal of Trademark Rights 🔗

10 years after you registered a trademark in Germany, you have to renew it, if you want, otherwise the copyright ends after the period you paid for. W [...]

⇾ The Last Days of Social Media 🔗

The last days of social media might be the first days of something more human: a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be [...]

⇾ Conference Organising in 2026 (by PPK) 🔗

Lot’s of things I agree to here and feel the same about. Reply via Email [...]

Run: Family Jog 🔗

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Why We Need to Be in the Same Room – aka Reasons to Attend Events 🔗

Something has been is on my mind lately all the time – or rather, it’s been confirmed by the words of others I respect. People are writing about confe [...]

Links with Tips and Advice for Public Speaking 🔗

Note: This article was originally posted on 18 January 2020, but I updated it several times and last on 1 April 2026 again. I collected these links to [...]

⇾ A “Speaker Rider” – Good Help for Event Organisers 🔗

This is a good page for any event organiser. No question left after reading the speaker rider of Matthias Ott, right? I directly added it to my collec [...]

Ride: Lunch Ride in the Fields 🔗

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Ride: Uerdingen >> Rhine >> Meerbusch 🔗

> Rhine >> Meerbusch">Reply via Email [...]

Photos of Web Day Out 2026 in Brighton 🔗

I had a fantastic time. In Many ways. Here are my photos of Web Day Out 2026 in Brighton. (#WebDayOut) Reply via Email [...]

⇾ Congrats to my Friend Gavin Strange for 25 Years of Jamfactory 🔗

Gavin Strange celebrates 25 years of creating under the name of Jamfactory. Wow. And Yay! I’ve been celebrating as of late, as at the start of the mon [...]

The Ensh*ttificator 🔗

“The Ensh*ttificator” is a little movie about who it is to blame for all the things getting worse. This video is part of a campaign by the Norwegian [...]

Podcasting Checklist 🔗

A while ago, when recording an episode for one of my podcasts, I slipped up on a few things that didn’t ruin the conversation or content, but that wou [...]

Events I Attend in the First Half of 2026 🔗

Here comes a round of events I attend in the first 6 months of this year. I bet there will be more, but those are the ones – in chronological order – [...]

Morning Jog with Dog 🔗

A morning jog via fields and forest with Toffie, our dog. Reply via Email [...]

⇾ The Lifeblood of the Web – Matthias Ott 🔗

I haven’t had much time to read anything online between October and now. beyond tellerrand Berlin needed all my attention as well as the post event st [...]

⇾ Manuel’s Favourite Front-end and Web Development Conferences 🔗

Very happy that two events I am involved in are on Manuel’s list. With Smashing Conference running for 13,5 years and beyond tellerrand running for 1 [...]

⇾ Liquid Glass is so F**k’d Up 🔗

Jeremy says: I haven’t “upgraded” my iPhone to iOS 26 and I have no plans to. Same here. I really don’t understand such “upgrades”. And Jeremy’s examp [...]

10 Years Since David Bowie is Dead 🔗

David Bowie. 10 years gone already, but forever here. Reply via Email [...]

Photos of “New Adventures in Web Design” from 2011 🔗

I started to download all my photos from Flickr and re-upload them on my own website. This is the first album I created and it is from New Adventures [...]

A Conversation about Work, Doubt, Joy, and Why Community Still Matters 🔗

A while ago I sat down with Brad Frost for an episode of his podcast Wake Up Excited, which he recently released.We ended up talking about far more th [...]

Snow in 2026 🔗

For some it might be nothing special, but over here it rarely snows and I embrace this right now. Everything is so silent. The crunching snow under m [...]

Been Busy – What Happened During the Last Months? 🔗

Wow! Two Three month really went by so quick. I am, right now, sitting on my couch (not anymore, it’s the kitchen table now) and thought “Let’s see ho [...]

Rick Beato is Right 🔗

When chatting to my friend Basti recently, he asked me if I had see the latest Video of Rick Beato on YouTube and I had not to that point. Now I have [...]

Photos From Craft & Work London 2025 🔗

It was great to be back in London and met a few lovely people. Keir Whitaker managed to create another great day with his Craft & Work event. A full r [...]

Moving Servers 🔗

A quick note: I am moving to a new hosting partner. In case there are any dropouts, please stay tuned. We are working on it. So far email accounts hav [...]

Good Bye Host Europe 🔗

I am with my current hosting partner since 1999 when they still had the name One-2-One. I usually was happy with them and they even sponsor two of my [...]

Photos From Smashing Conference Freiburg 2025 🔗

Another Smashing Conference in Freiburg in the books. This year we added workshop day before the main conference next to the one after the conference [...]

Facebook without Suggestions and Ads 🔗

When I mentioned, how my timeline looks on Facebook these days, when I visit it – which I rarely do really, Jeremy Keith gave me the tip to add “?sk=h [...]

State of the Browser – Get your Super Early Bird 🔗

Ouh … quick! Today is the last day to grab your SUPER EARLY BIRD ticket for State of the Browser 2026. Nearly forgot to remind you – phew. An remembe [...]

What Brendan Says … 🔗

Of course many will ask why even have a website these days? Well, I've had my site for twenty five years and it contains the entire archive of my work [...]

More Newsletters That Regularly Hit my Inbox 🔗

Based on the feedback I received, many of you enjoyed the newsletter recommendations I shared last time and Eric and Dan even followed up and added th [...]

Back from Portugal 🔗

We spent some quality time in Portugal for the last two weeks and drove down via France and Spain and back up along the coast. Even though a few bad [...]

Namur 🔗

Passing Namur on my way Alexandre Plennevaux bringing students to beyond tellerrand in DUS for many years. Reply via Email [...]

Newsletters That Regularly Hit my Inbox These Days 🔗

The things you subscribe to change over time. This time I simply wanted to list (and advertise) the newsletters that hit my inbox these days. Next to [...]

Friends of beyond tellerrand 🔗

beyond tellerrand has always been more than a conference to me. It’s a creative and friendly community and festival built on curiosity and connections [...]

Upgrading from Kirby 4 to Kirby 5 🔗

Let me give you one of the reasons why I am in love with Kirby CMS for more than a decade now. I just upgraded 5 of my websites running on Kirby from [...]

Off to Kortrijk to be at Bump 🔗

It is been a while that I have been in the lovely city of Kortrijk. Last time that was 2012 ans the event still was called Multimania. I finally made [...]

I Opened Facebook After a While … 🔗

I opened Facebook after a while of not using it. I do have two pages still there (beyond tellerrand and my band SPOILER) and also used to use it to st [...]

Off to Amsterdam for CSSday 2025 🔗

I am off to Amsterdam for this year’s edition of CSSday. Lovely to be back and to meet a few people. Sadly I might need to leave early for family reas [...]

Accessibility Club Summit 2025 🔗

Next weekend, 24 and 25 May, I am going to be in Würzburg to attend (and help a little bit) at the Accessibility Club Summit 2025. Would be lovely to [...]

Upgraded to Sequoia 🔗

I usually always wait long before I upgrade to a new OS version. Now I finally upgraded to Sequoia (15.5) and I have to admit that everything feels mu [...]

BERLIN DESIGN Connect 🔗

BERLIN DESIGN Connect is planned as a community gathering as part of the Berlin Design Week 2025. Right before I went deep into the last bits and piec [...]

“A Little Island of Delight” – an Interview with Rainer Kunst for Vivid Magazine 🔗

I am not shy to give interviews, but most of the times someone asks me for an interview I wonder if anyone actually is interested in the stuff I am do [...]

⇾ Hello and Welcome Back Jason 🔗

Jason Santa Maria is back on his blog. And running it with Kirby. Reply via Email [...]

My Thoughts after “State of the Browser 2025” 🔗

I have spent the last three days in London. To meet a few friends, but mainly to attend State of the Browser. While I have been there, I took a few ph [...]

State of the Browser 2025 Photos 🔗

Here are my photos of State of the Browser 2025 (#sotb2025). Reply via Email [...]

Is Not Answering the Thing Now? 🔗

Maybe I am just seeing this wrong, but I experience that a lot of people simply don’t reply to emails/messages these days any more. I get that emails [...]

The New Eventbrite Logo vs the Envato Logo 🔗

The new Eventbrite logo reminds me of the Envato logo. Just flipped. Just me? 🤷‍♂️ Reply via Email [...]

Sunny Times, Bike Times 🔗

I used the beautiful sunshine to clean all family bikes and make them fit for 2025. Cleaning, fixing things and so forth. Also gave my Rose Sneak 2 an [...]

State of the Browser 2025 in London - Whom Will I Meet? 🔗

Exactly one month from now I am going to leave for State of the Browser 2025 in London. First time to attend, even though I know Dave, who’s running i [...]

New Gear: NSG and Hyper Luminal from Darkglass 🔗

I love the stuff from Darkglass. Not just form the sound, but also how it is built. You can feel the quality. This is the Darkglass NSG noise gate an [...]

⇾ What Jeremy says here is correct 🔗

What Jeremy describes here also matches the sound of beyond tellerrand. And the following is true for many independetn events these days … As you can [...]

⇾ The Pocket Photographer by Mike Kus 🔗

My friend Mike Kus release a lovely book a while ago and I can’t remember if I already pointed you to it. If I did, well, than this is the second time [...]

Quick Ride Between Calls and Cooking 🔗

Needed this. Still, and for a month now, ill. But riding is ok and especially if the sun comes out Tracked this one on my Komoot and my Strava accoun [...]

Stay Away From N26 Bank 🔗

(German version of this article available here) Just over a year ago, after more than 20 years, I decided to change my previous business bank. The rea [...]

⇾ iA Presenter How To Hub 🔗

This is a new hub with tutorials and tips on how to use iA Presenter (and presenting in general). Reply via Email [...]

Time 🔗

What is time actually? I got a little addicted recently and read a few interesting articles, watched documentaries and dug a little bit deeper into th [...]

⇾ T3CON24 Recap – Why Independent Community Events Matter 🔗

Panos Semitekolos has written a nice summary with a few takeaways from my talk at T3CON24, end of November. Sketchnotes by Anja von Klitzing [...]

First Short Ride in 25 … 🔗

It was so beautifully sunny, that I went for the very first ride on my gravel bike. Just 2° Celsius meant, that for the last 2 years, since I got this [...]

Today my Brother would have been 63 🔗

Happy Birthday to my brother, who would have been 63 today. When he died in 2013 suddenly, he was as old as I am this year. Reply via Email [...]

I am so Tired of Social Media 🔗

This post is visible to RSS subscribers only. What? Read more about RSS Club. Since a longer time I interact less and [...]

⇾ Nice Summary by Brendan Dawes about the Eno Screening 🔗

This is a lovely summary by my friend Brendan Dawes about last week’s Berlin premiere of “Eno”. Brings back memories and a smile. Reply via [...]

Been Guest in the Inside TYPO3 Podcast 🔗

During T3CON24 last end of last year, Kendall Litton invited my to be a guest in the “Inside TYPO3” Podcast. We had a lovely conversation about events [...]

Eno in Berlin 🔗

Last Tuesday, January 14th, I had the delightful honour to co-host the premiere of Eno, the documentary together with director Gary Hustwit and direct [...]

Off to Berlin for the Eno Premiere 🔗

On the way to Berlin for the Eno premiere with Gary Huswit, Brendan Dawes and also looking forward to seeing Keir Whitaker. 🙌 #firsttripin25 [...]

My Days at TYPO3 Conference 2024 🔗

When I got invited to the TYPO3 Conference 2024 to give a talk I thought “Why would my topic and what I have to say matter at a TYPO3 Conference?”. We [...]

TYPO3 Conference 2024 🔗

I am invited to speak at the TYPO3 Conference this week and have also been part of the jury this year. Thanks for the kind invitation! I knew it is go [...]

devslove.it Podcast 3/3 🔗

This is the last episode of by appearance at the devslove.it podcast. Alex, Dominik and I were speaking – in German – about education, why events matt [...]

The Work of Anna Monika Jost for Olivetti 🔗

The work of Swiss graphic designer Anna Monika Jost for Olivetti from around 1966 is amazing! Reply via Email [...]

Off to Vilnius for #feedesign 🔗

Off to attend #feedesign in Vilnius which is not only a design festival, but also a meeting of 50+ event organisers to discuss, learn about and help e [...]

I Didn’t Know This: Typing Special Characters on MacOS 🔗

A short note as maybe someone does not know, like I did not know. Did you know that you can hold down a key on your keyboard in MacOS for special char [...]

beyond tellerrand Berlin 2024 🔗

beyond tellerrand Berlin 2024 is over already again. I started this adventure in 2014 and much happened to the world since then. But the positive vibe [...]

devslove.it Podcast 2/3 🔗

I have been guest of the devslove.it podcast and it was a lovely experience and a – as I think – fun conversation with Alex Bürner and Dominik Laube. [...]

Smashing Conference Antwerp 2024 🔗

This was our second edition in Antwerp. At least for a while it will be our last one in Antwerp either. Well, at least in the wonderful Bourla Theatre [...]

On Tour – Busy October and November 🔗

I might have been slower during the last couple of weeks in replying to your emails. Well, the reason is, that I am on the road with the Smashing Team [...]

devslove.it Podcast 1/3 🔗

I have been guest of the devslove.it podcast and it was a joyful experience and a fun conversation with Alex Bürner and Dominik Laube. This is part 1 [...]

This was Smashing Conference New York 2024 🔗

Here is my set of photos from this year’s Smashing Conference in New York. We run this show since 10 years already. Always great to come back. Next s [...]

Off to New York 🔗

I am off to New York to meet the SmashingConf team and run another edition after a break of a year. Greetings from FRA and see you there! R [...]

Why Are You Not Attending Events Anymore? 🔗

What do events/conferences/design festivals/younameit mean to you? I'd be interested in a conversation. Speaking to a lot of event organisers recently [...]

Asus ProArt Series 🔗

I am a Mac user since I am working with computers professionally. My first Macintosh I was working with had OS 7 running and ever since I am using App [...]

Changing Your Apple Calendar Email to Send Invites 🔗

For years and years I am looking for a way to change the email address on my mac to not use the icloud email to send invites from out of my calendar. [...]

⇾ Website of Nic Chan 🔗

If you, like me and many, often complain about websites being soulless these days, then check the new website of Nic Chan. I love it. Reply [...]

Chain Wax vs Chain Oil 🔗

You find loads of videos about whether chain oil or chain wax is better. Since I have got my gravel bike (roughly 3 years now), I used wax on its chai [...]