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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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 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.

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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 ...

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 using https://www.facebook.com/ use https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr.

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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

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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 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.

What Brendan says!

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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, ...

This post is visible to RSS subscribers only. What? Read more about RSS Club. Here is another RSS Club post. I wasn’t sure if I want to publish this publicly, as I am a bit frustrated with t...

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? ;)

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Passing Namur on my way
to Portugal. Remembers me of Alexandre Plennevaux bringing students to beyond tellerrand in DUS for many years.

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