On May 13th and 14th, I organise my annual stop of beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf. If you are from Düsseldorf or arrive in Düsseldorf before you maybe want to attend “Literatur & Livemusik 2024” by my friend Lars Terlinden, taking place from May 9th to 12th. It offer a book mark … | Continue reading
Dirk Hesse collects photos of creatives – and who isn’t creative – for his website “Le Bureau”. Mine was recently published and I wanted to point you to this lovely little project of Dirk. He also invites to a short interview, for those of you who speak German. I like projects li … | Continue reading
A generated film that never is played in the same way, you ask? For whom could this work out and isn't that too chaotic to watch? Well, if your subject is Brian Eno and his life, it is absolutely fitting. Panel with Eno and the people behind the film At least the version I have s … | Continue reading
Last week I had the honour of being the guest of Silke in her live streamed radio show Radio Roggermann. It was great fun and you can listen back to it here (including the music). Show is in German, though. Reply via Email | Continue reading
Despite some personal problems within the family during my trip to Brighton, which made me worry, I had a wonderful time at this year’s Patterns Day. It was the third time this event took place and once more it was great to meet old friends and make new friends during the day. To … | Continue reading
A longer time ago (11 years to be exact) I started to shoot what’s in my backpack bevor I took off to event adventures. I did not shoot many of them, but always liked the idea and brought this back now. This time: Patterns Day in Brighton. Packing my Bag Reply via Email | Continue reading
I stumbled over the artwork by Andrew Scott on Instagram. I like that he uses the whole thing, you attach to your wall as an art piece and not just what is in the frame ;) Like this one, in which “the artwork” cracks the frame with a hammer. Or this one where the glass of the fra … | Continue reading
I got many of their publications in my bookshelves or in my digital library. It feels like I bought the first one last month and now they are closing their doors. This is a farewell and thanks for all the wonderful publications. 🥂 to Jason Santa Maria, Katel LeDu (always … | Continue reading
Steph Eckles says “Sometimes, improving your application CSS just takes a one-line upgrade or enhancement” and released 12 useful modern CSS one-line upgrades. Reply via Email | Continue reading
Note: This article was originally posted on 18 January 2020, but I updated it several times and today, 1 March 2024, 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 … | Continue reading
I really, really enjoyed watching this. Not just because of the content. Those two guys get along well and you can feel the atmosphere in the room. Copeland surely respects Beato and I think Copeland is a funny guy also. Interesting, fun conversation to follow, I think. Not only … | Continue reading
Because Moritz Gießmann liked Lea Verou’s color contrast checker so much before it was sold and found out that it was published under the MIT license, he created the original version again and published it for your use at contrast-ratio.org. Reply via Email | Continue reading
A few days ago a new podcast with the title “The Gatekeepers” was published on BBC Radio 4. A podcast with and by author and journalist Jamie Bartlett in which he traces the story of how and why social media have become the new information gatekeepers. I have been in touch with J … | Continue reading
I don’t know if you are subscribed to the “History of the Web” newsletter by Jay Hoffmann. A good read anyways, but I wanted to point you to the latest edition in particular. But the blogging of today won’t look like the blogging of 2002. There are too many things that have chan … | Continue reading
I think, but am not sure, I heard of Shift Happens, the book project of Marcin Wichary, when he spoke at beyond tellerrand in 2018, where he gave a brilliant talk about “The Abridged History Of Having Fun \/\/ith Keyboards” (watch the talk here on YouTube). Back then he already s … | Continue reading
In 202 I have been interviewed for the Lexware magazine titled “Tell your Story”. I now found out, that [the article by itself is also online in their online archive](https://tellyourstory.lexware.de/story/beyond-tellerrand/?ref=marcthiele. Reply via Email | Continue reading
It was such a wonderful day over here yesterday. We took it as a chance to take a long walk along the Rhine. It was such a great feeling to have the sun back. I knew it before, but I am really dependent on the weather and my mood is heavily influenced by how light or dark a day i … | Continue reading
Like I said before, I was shitting my pants before I had seen the film. Andreas Brüggemann and Stefan Nitzsche were working on this since beginning on 2019 and many things happened during this time. Many things that those two might see different to how I see it and in general the … | Continue reading
A statement upfront: by the time writing these lines, I haven’t seen anything from the documentary apart of the three trailers on YouTube It must have been end of 2018 or maybe beginning 2019 that Stefan Nitzsche approached me with the idea of creating a documentary about beyond … | Continue reading
I often get asked “What is the secret to a successful event?” and surely you first have to define what “success” means in this context. Mostly, when asking me, the asking person means the fact that past attendees speak about my event as a friendly event with a special atmosphere … | Continue reading
I often get asked “What is the secret to a successful event?” and surely you first have to define what “success” means in this context. Mostly, when asking me, the asking person means the fact that past attendees speak about my event as a friendly event with a special atmosphere … | Continue reading
A few weeks ago Keir Whitaker, good friend of mine and also part of beyond tellerrand since a couple of months (well he always has been somehow), threw 9 questions my way. I like to answer these kinds of questions, as I mostly learn something about myself while answering them. He … | Continue reading
This afternoon I upgraded three of my sites using Kirby to the new version Kirby 4. It was super easy and nothing that bugged me really actually had to do with Kirby itself, but upgrading to a newer version of PHP here on my local machines. I, for example, use Mamp on my Macs and … | Continue reading
Exciting news: Kirby 4 is here. Upgrade now to save 20% on each license. Super happy for Bastian and the Kirby team to see the release as I know how much work it has been for them. And sooo many promising new features and enhancements. Have a look yourself. Excited to see if my p … | Continue reading
Skate Aid Night 2023 just happened on Saturday. I went again and it is great to see how many people supported Skate Aid again to make kids strong through skateboarding and giving them a purpose. This time my daughter Luca joined me, which made me really happy. ☺️ Skate Aid and be … | Continue reading
To my mother who’d have birthday today! Reply via Email | Continue reading
ffconf is an event in Brighton founded and organised by Remy Sharp and his wife Julie Sharp. I know both for a long time and we share a lot of common things when it comes to running events. We run events, because we love running those and bringing people together for which we cur … | Continue reading
Before 2019 I visited Brighton every year for 13 years. Often more than just once a year. Events happening in Brighton are only a few these days. One of them is ffconf and I am looking forward to it! Reply via Email | Continue reading
Vasilis van Gemert has been one of the speakers last week at border:none. He has written about the gist of his talk, with which he was closing the event. He closes his write-up with the following paragraph … In ten years I would love to do another talk at the next border:none con … | Continue reading
Tom Arnold, who was attending border:none 10 years ago also, has written a nice recap of his experience last week at border:none in Nuremberg. Thank you Tom! Reply via Email | Continue reading
Jeremy Keith, one of the speakers at last weeks border:none, has written about the event Joschi and I organised. Thanks for that and thanks for being part of this little adventure. At the end of the event there was some joking about returning in 2033. I love the idea of a confere … | Continue reading
Matthias Ott has written about our boder:none Event on his blog. Thanks a lot. Joschi and I had a great time running it! Reply via Email | Continue reading
Last week Joschi Kuphal and I rand another edition of border:none, after we ran the very first edition in 2023. It was great fun, a really pleasure and absolutely wonderful. When I say “it”, I mean everything! Organising it with Joschi (and the team from tollwerk), listening to t … | Continue reading
In February Vitaly Friedman and I went on a one-day road trip to explore a few venues in Belgium in Ghent and Antwerp. Some of them were recommended to me, others I had found on the web. During the car ride we had lovely conversations about what we want for SmashingConf and how w … | Continue reading
I remember what some people “advised” when I started to run my Berlin edition for the very first time back in 2014, instead of growing the one in Düsseldorf. I received feedback from perhaps much smarter business people than myself, who suggested that I should expand my original … | Continue reading
Tabler Icons is a library of over 4500 open source icons. You can download 4200 for free or use their pay what you want option for the full set (please do!) Found in Veerle’s Mastodon stream Reply via Email | Continue reading
If you, like me, use Strava to record your runs and rides, it might have happened to you also, that you sync the device you use to track a run or ride with at home and recognise that the GPX data is wrong or broken. Well, I could just live with this and don’t care, but somehow s … | Continue reading
Visiting the release page of Kirby 4 (right now in Alpha 5 – version 4 is planned for October roughly) makes me excited to upgrade and use some of the new features and improvements. They write about the upgrades: Kirby 4 will be built upon the healthy code base we established for … | Continue reading
Just a few days before I went on a longer trip to Switzerland and Italy, Constantin and Moritz of the #wwsiv Podcast published the episode in which I had the pleasure to be their guest. It was a lovely chat (in German) and we chattet about event stuff surely, but also about a lot … | Continue reading
Andy Budd has a long experience as speaker and also as curator or organiser of events. Here is an article he has written for Smashing Magazine, that helps you to become a better speaker. I also added it to my list with tips and advice for public speaking Reply via Email | Continue reading
Bussana Vecchia is a little village in the mountains close to the Ligurian coast in Italy. Well worth a visit with its little cafes and restaurants and galleries to visit and buy art. Due to an earthquake in 1887 this little village was abandoned. Around 1960 an international gro … | Continue reading
Yes. Once more it is silence here and this time it would be easy to state that this is because of so many things I do – as I do, really. But really it is because I am away with my family in a small village in Liguria in Italy called Candeasco, where we have been 11 years ago, whe … | Continue reading
Would be nice to have company on those rides, to be honest. But on the other hand, I do get my head clean during these rides, which never happened with running for me. Maybe just because you need to keep track of the ride to not fall of the bike. Wonderful weather. Fantastic star … | Continue reading
2023 edition of Smashing Conference in San Francisco is over. Here is a set of photos capturing the atmosphere and people at the event. Reply via Email | Continue reading
I was invited by the lovely people of the German, weekly Working Draft podcast once more. It is always a pleasure and good fun and surely we were also talking about organising events and beyond tellerrand, but also had a deeper look behind the scenes of an event organiser’s life … | Continue reading
Also right before beyond tellerrand 2023 in Düsseldorf, I was invited to be part of the German Digital Pacemaker Podcast by Ulrich Irnich, CIO of Vodafone Germany and Markus Kuckertz, who is responsible for IT strategy und innovation at Vodafone Germany. This podcast had a totall … | Continue reading
Short before I ran beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf I was invited to be a guest in Ohne den Hype, a German podcast by Sven Saro about design related topics. Good fun and you can listen to it here. Reply via Email | Continue reading