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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 EmailA 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 already deployed to the new server.
I hope that the rest won’t need too long to avoid downtimes, but in case you experience a few hickups, then you know why.
Big shoutout to Mittwald for their fantastic support and seamless tools which make the move as easy as possible. More about that at a later point.
Reply via EmailWhen 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 using https://www.facebook.com/ use https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr.
Reply via EmailOuh … 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 EmailReply via EmailOf 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 also really useful too. Many times I've looked up how to do something, or how to write a certain piece of code and I've found it on my blog, having written it up in case it comes in handy later.
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 EmailPassing Namur on my way
to Portugal. Remembers me of Alexandre Plennevaux bringing students to beyond tellerrand in DUS for many years.
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 part and – even more important – to ensure this creative, curious, and kind space continues to exist and grow.
Thank you!
Reply via EmailIt 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 known as Baldower, who plays at beyond tellerrand aince 2013, is here. Fun all around.
Reply via EmailLet 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 experience! Thanks to the Kirby Team ;)
Reply via EmailIt 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 Bunp 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 known as Baldower, who plays at beyond tellerrand aince 2013, is here. Fun all around.
Reply via EmailI 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 honest, when I see the state of it these days.
Reply via EmailA lovely, unagitated article with thoughts of Jason about AI, the future and himself in all of this.
Reply via Email[…] making things is not about the destination, but about the journey. The journey is what you put into creation: the thought, the mistakes, the sweat, the time, the lived experiences, the refinement in technique. What you get back is knowledge. The output is an artifact of that knowledge. When you get that artifact without the journey, you make nothing, you learn nothing.
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 EmailNext 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!
Reply via EmailI 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.
Reply via EmailBERLIN 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
Reply via EmailJason Santa Maria is back on his blog. And running it with Kirby.
Reply via EmailMaybe 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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