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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 see you there! Arriving Friday around 4pm and leaving Monday morning.

A lot is planned and you can see everything that is happening plus a detailed schedule on their website.

See you there!

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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 much faster. I am surprised.

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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 pieces for beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2025, I have been invited to be part of it.

The event has three different stages plus networking space and I am part of the “Community Panel” together with Ana Regidor, Felicitas Schmittinger and Harshini Karunaratne as well as a Community Space where people can get information about beyond tellerrand.

Next to all this, workshops and talks are planned also. Find the full program on this page

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“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 doing. I mean, what am I really doing then? I run an event. Nothing that is really special, is it? That said, I have learned t...

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⇾ Hello and Welcome Back Jason

Jason Santa Maria is back on his blog. And running it with Kirby.

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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 photos at the event. I also had few thoughts while I was attending. Not only did I meet people I knew and was happy to see them...

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State of the Browser 2025 Photos

Photo of the empty theatre before anybody entered

Here are my photos of State of the Browser 2025 (#sotb2025).

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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 can be exhausting at times, but really, I am answering any email I get. Sometimes late, but I answer.

The reason for this is that I always try to imagine myself. Not getting an answer leaves you with questions like “Did the message arrive or did it end up in spam?”, “Did I say something wrong and upset her/him?”.

And it is so easy. I can really live with a short message stating no interest or even a “Fuck off”, which is way better as it does not leave me with nothing and not knowing whether my message arrived or not.

Am I old fashioned here and it is ok to not answer? Or does this belong to how we treat each other?

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The New Eventbrite Logo vs the Envato Logo

The new Eventbrite logo reminds me of the Envato logo. Just flipped. Just me? 🤷‍♂️

The two logos next to each other
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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 upgrade. About three years ago I got a Tailfin rack for my gravel bike. Yes, the Tailfin stuff isn’t cheap, but it is – in my opinion – worth every cent. Went on many backpacking tours with the rear panier bags and the rack top bag and got the carbon rack including panier mounts back in 2022. It is super light weight, but what was most important for me: it is easy to get on and off the bike within seconds. The only thing I needed to get was another thru axle for my Sneak to replace the original with that one and ready is the Sneak for bike packing adventures as well. I now can use everything I got for the two bikes and attach the carbon rack to the bikes within seconds. Reply via Email

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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 it, for a while

Banner for the event State of the Browser showing the name, date and location. It is pink and violett with yellow and white text.

One part of those events surely is to meet people. Therefore: who is going to be there? Tickets start from £50 on – that is a no-brainer, right?

Looking forward to seeing you there!

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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.

A photo of the effect pedals NSG on the left and Hyper Luminal – black edition – on the right.

This is the Darkglass NSG noise gate and the Hyper Luminal compressor (limited black edition).

Can’t wait to test them live with my band on our gig in April.

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⇾ 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 imagine, that’s not an easy sell.

Therefore all of those events need your help. Spread the word about the events you love, so new people learn about them and trust your recommendation.

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⇾ 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, but it is worth it.

The book comes with a mass of examples, but also:

[…] will arm you with a mountain of easily actionable tips that will elevate your photos to the next level. This book makes photography accessible to everyone.

Check it out!

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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 account Reply via Email

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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 reason was that the bank I was with seemed outdated and offered few good online services. Everything seemed outdated and was als...

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⇾ iA Presenter How To Hub

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

This image is showing a collection of 5 screenshots of how-to videos for iA Presenter
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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 this topic. Those articles circled around questions like … Why do we measure time? Since when do we define our own time and do...

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⇾ 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 from my talk, showing illustrations for “Why” and “They Matter”.
Sketchnotes by Anja von Klitzing
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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 bike, I wouldn’t have gone during the winter time. First of all I did not have the gear to do this and wasn’t sure what do g...

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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.

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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 less with social media. I think it started 2018 or so, that I thought it...

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⇾ 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.

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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 and the differences between bigger, more corporate events and independent events.

You can listen to the episode in the embedded player above, their YouTube page or any other player that supports RSS like Pocketcast, which I use.

Furthermore I got this whole podcasts transcribed and you can read the full transcription here (opens in a new window in case you started listening here already).

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Eno in Berlin

Last Tuesday, January 14th, I had the delightful honour to co-host the premiere of Eno, the documentary by Gary Hustwit and Brendan Dawes. On stage after the screening: Gary, Brendan and me – photo by Savva Terentyev My task was to welcome people after picking their seats and introducing Gary to the stage to say hi. Later after the film has been shown, and that was the real fun, I lead a 30-minute Q&A with Gary and Brendan, chatting about the creation process, the idea and the technology of how this film was made. I absolutely enjoyed this and next to co-hosting this, meeting with friends like Keir, Tobi or Brendan and Gary was a great start to the event year. Same Q&A, but from further away. A nice shot by Keir Whitaker Reply via Email

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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

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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?”. Well, I guess, my event is titled beyond tellerrand, so how could I say no, if someone running an event about topics not being ...

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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 going to be tough as it is conference seasons right now and we ran SmashingConf New York and Antwerp, I ran beyond tellerrand...

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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 matter for this and about the IndieWeb movement.

With this third of three episodes all three episodes are live and I want to thank Alex Bürner and Dominik Laube once more for the invitation and the lovely conversation.

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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