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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 their Developer Days. André Michelle agreed to join and I was happy that his talk was so wonderfully received. A great mixture of tech and audio. The version he gave at beyond tellerrand can be found here . Reply via Email
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 we picked Matthias Ott. Great talk once more, reminding us what creating with the web actually means and why this is important. Here is the recording oft his talk from beyond tellerrand . Reply via Email
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, published a piece called “What makes a conference great” . Reading it felt a little like hearing my own talk played back to me instantly. Coincidence from the other side of the planet. ;) Sacha Judd at beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2022. Photo by Florian…
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, as is currently the case with the rescinding of that red card, is frustrating and sad. Disgusting! Reply via Email
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. ;) Photo by Thorsten Jonas It started out completely normal: I applied through the call for papers, just like everyone else. The planned talk then turned into an opening keynote over the course of a conversation. And that keynote was about exactly this: the…
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 this years summit with my talk “Weniger Slides. Mehr Austausch.” (translates to something like “Fewer Slides. More Exchange.) Looking forward to it. See you there! Reply via Email
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
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 on. FFconf now created an additional “ Feeds ” section with all RSS feeds of past speakers. Lovely. BTW: FFconf is taking place on 13 November in Brighton this year. I try to make it again, but you should definitely go ! Reply via Email
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 via Email
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 and get along with it quite well. Recently my left control key started to act strange, plus a few of my keys are heavily used and they are falling apart. So it was time to get a new one. I went to one of the big stores and tested a few other…
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. Well, next to the “Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt) other people want to make money of it and remind you, that your trademark ends soon. I guess they would also renew your trademark, but they charge €1300 and more instead of €750 which you have to pay…
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 harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect. Yes please. Reply via Email
Lot’s of things I agree to here and feel the same about. Reply via Email
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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 conferences again. Not about which ones to attend, or how to get a speaking slot, but about why they matter at all. And I think that conversation is worth pulling together in one place, to remind those who have forgotten or those who never learned.…
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 write a blog post at some point, but did not get to the point writing it, yet . Now, to make use of my list already, before getting to the point finally writing a blog post about public speaking, I have sorted my notes and list them here in no…
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 collection of useful things for public speaking . Reply via Email
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I had a fantastic time. In Many ways. Here are my photos of Web Day Out 2026 in Brighton. (#WebDayOut) Reply via Email
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 month on the 6th February, it was exactly 25 years since first registering my domain name jam-factory.com, which means it’s been a quarter of a century making stuff under the name of “Jamfactory”! I put together a wee video edit, cataloguing 25 years of…
“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 Consumer Council for its campaign “Breaking Free” against consumer-unfriendly “enshittification”. Well, let’s work on it and find that guy! Reply via Email
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 would have made it a lot more enjoyable to listen to and saved me a lot of editing afterwards. So, I thought I’d sit down and write out the checklist that I usually keep in my head. It’s (hopefully) a practical list of things for podcasters because I’m…
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 – where I have travel and accommodation booked and where I’d love to meet you ;) State of the Browser, London (UK) State of the Browser , or SOTB in short, is an annual one‑day tech conference in London organised by London Web Standards (mainly Dave…
A morning jog via fields and forest with Toffie, our dog. Reply via Email
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 stuff afterwards and now Düsseldorf. But I am slowly catching up on my RSS reader unread count. One post I just read was “The Lifeblood of the Web” which is a perfect “convince your boss” document with reasons why anyone should attend events. That’s…
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 15 years now, I don’t take that for granted and am happy that this is the case after such a long time. Reply via Email
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 example is only one very small bit. Everything looks broken, inconsistent and barely usable Reply via Email
David Bowie. 10 years gone already, but forever here. Reply via Email
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 in Web Design , hosted by Simon Collison on 20 January 2011, nearly 15 years ago from today. Enjoy the memories the photos might bring back to you! Reply via Email
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 than conferences. It turned into a really honest conversation about creative work, motivation, self-doubt, community, and why it’s still worth doing things that are hard. Waking up Excited (and Still Doing the Hard Stuff) Since I run events, what…
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 my feet. Our dog enjoys a good play with a snowball or playing catch me if you can. Happy moments. Reply via Email
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 how long I haven’t posted on my personal site anymore” and ouch, that was quite some time. Reason for this was that I have done a couple of things that kept me busy (and happy). Sure, beyond tellerrand in Berlin , but a lot of other things also. Let’s…
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 and I simply agree to everything Rick says there. Rick is a musician that I love to watch. I got to know his channel via his “What makes this song great” video in which he takes apart music and explains why he thinks that this song is great. Recently…
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 room, great conversations and an overall good atmosphere. If you want to have proof, here is my set of photos from the day . Reply via Email
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 have been transferred, all .de domains are already on the new server and transfer for all international domains has been started, but still needs a while to be complete for whatever reason. The deployment chains have been edited and all websites are…
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 servers. One on which runs everything beyond tellerrand related and one where anything else, like this page, runs on. Surely within 26 years there is the one or other thing that is not your most favourite decision, but in general I have been…
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 days. I created these photos during our event. Reply via Email
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_chr” to the URL, which removes all the crap like suggested posts, groups and so on and gives you a clean, chronological timeline. Nice one and I thought I simply write it down for me and share it with you, if you didn’t know either. So, instead of…
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 remember: get your tickets early ;) 👉 https://2026.stateofthebrowser.com Reply via Email
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 in that time. Nobody can tell me what I can and can't put on there. Nobody can switch it off. The platform it's on – the web - is not going to disappear because it got acquired by a big company. It's mine and I'm free to do with it as I please. It's…
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 their readings. So, I’m doing it again. This time with a few more of the reads that regularly land in my inbox, whether daily, weekly, or somewhere in between. How to Survive the Internet I first discovered Jamie Bartlett through his books, like “The…
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 news landed in my inbox during this trip, I am back recharged and ready to hit Berlin with beyond tellerrand . Are you? ;) Reply via Email
Passing Namur on my way to Portugal. Remembers me of Alexandre Plennevaux bringing students to beyond tellerrand in DUS for many years. Reply via Email
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 the podcasts I listen to or websites in my RSS reader, of course ;) Especially in times, where social media is so fragmented, I love a good read, when I want it without the fear to missing out. So here is, what hits my inbox at the moment … The Index…
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. It’s a passion project, I organise and run with all my heart. And now it’s your chance to own a part: If beyond tellerrand has ever sparked something in you, consider becoming a “Friend of beyond tellerrand” . It’s a simple way to give back and be…
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 Version 4 to Version 5. This is a major release with many new features and not a bug fix or any minor upgrade. Usually you are prepared for things to break, right? Nope! Time: 2 minutes Problems: 0 What a wonderful, stress free and painless…
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 it back and Bump is a one day festival celebrating creativity. Lovely to see Charlie Gerard and Paddy Donnelly on stage here, who both spoke at beyond tellerrand also. But excited to see new presentations also! And this year even Tobi, the musician…
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 stay in touch with people I know from back in school. But these days, when opening it, it feels as if there is just advertisment and suggested crap. To me it is clear that Facebook is going to die rather sooner than later. And I won't cry, to be…
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 reasons, but I at least made it here. Let’s see. Reply via Email