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 pla...

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!

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

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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!

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

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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...

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 for the Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt.

Therefore: be careful when you receive a letter by “DMSV Deutsche Markenschutzverlängerung UG” which looks real, but is a service provider trying to scam you, charging literally €550 for what you can do for free.

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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.

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Lot’s of things I agree to here and feel the same about.

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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 th...

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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.

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

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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 passion projects […]

Here is the article and the video.

Congrats on 25 year of “making the all the stuff that absolutely no one asked for” my friend!

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“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!

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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 wr...

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...

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 L...

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.

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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

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David Bowie. 10 years gone already, but forever here.

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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!

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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 i...

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...

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 ...

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.

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