Same as for the talks archive counts for the speakers list. And don’t forget: many of them have spoken multiple times. Otherwise it would be even longer

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Bloody hell. It always impresses me again, what 15 years of beyond tellerrand mean content wise in talks. Look at this page!

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Here is another little interview from mittwald’s “Head in the Cloud”. I was asked what makes an event more than just a conference. My answer is that there’s no real secret beyond openness: being willing to be vulnerable, admitting mistakes and not making everything feel over...

Don‘t expect any fast email reply this week. Am in the mountains. ☺️

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I genuinely enjoyed being part of Head in the Cloud by mittwald this year. Now they released the video of my talk (it’s in German, sorry), which was titled “Weniger Slides. Mehr Austausch.” (something like “Fewer slides. More interaction.”).

Next to this, I gave a couple of interviews. One of them dealt with the how people these days see events and what is important for them. I proposed that it could work to run an event with even fewer talks than at beyond tellerrand, but more tome to chat and have conversations.

Video by mittwald. As said: I had a lovely time in Espelkamp and heard many other people say the same. The vibe, the people, everything fit very well … and the weather did also ;)

I will be back.

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I totally would love to go to ffconf, but sadly I am building up an event that help running on the 13th, which takes place on the 14th.

Well, I can’t go sadly, but YOU should! ffconf is a labour of love from Remy and Julie, who have run it themselves for 17 years! Their warmth shows in everything. It’s a single-track day in the cosy Duke of York’s cinema, so everyone shares the same thoughtful curated talks and has something to chat about afterwards. Exactly the way I like it. Join a seafront run, a coffee morning and/or a “Lunch with Future Friends”. I bet no one ends up alone, right?

And next to attending a great event, buying a ticket for ffconf on Friday 13th November is also a small vote for keeping independent, community-run events like this alive!

Information and registration here.

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Keir and Craig once more did a fantastic job in organising and running Craft & Work 2026 in London. A great day with lots of good conversations.

I had the pleasure of capturing the atmosphere and vibe during the event and here is my set of photos.

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When speaking to my friends Keir and Craig, I just found out that a lot of people don’t know that you can use a “C7 figure‑8 power cord” with any Apple power adapter in case you forgot your travel adapter.

Way cheaper to get one of those usually than a full travel adapter (hint: often times even free if you borrow your hotel’s TV cable 🫣)

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This morning the postman rang the bell. That usually means one of two things: something I ordered has arrived or someone sent me something. This time it was the latter. A small package from Australia. Inside was Shaun Tan’s new book, Hometown. There was a little handwritten ...

I try travel by train more. For beyond tellerrand, for conferences, for meetings. On 2 September I booked a ticket from Forsthaus to Berlin for €198. On 3 September I had to change my plans of traveling by car and needed a train ticket to Freiburg. Second class was shown to ...

We run this edition since 2012 in Freiburg. Always lovely to be, where Vitaly and I started it. Here are a few impressions of the days. Full album with 157 photos here. Reply via Email

Like I did for the first half of the year, here is my list of events I attend from August 2026 on. Some of these I help to organise, some are run by good friends, and at some of them you’ll find me with a camera in my hands. Maybe more to come, but those are the events – in ...

Ana Rodrigues has transformed a past talk into a lovely read about how her personal website became her third-space. That place that is neither home nor work, where you gather, wander around and meet people. She writes about chasing IndieWeb perfection for years, about the pr...

Chris Shiflett turned 50 in May and wrote a piece about it that I keep thinking about and that I kept marked as “unread” in my RSS reader to come back to it later. Now I found the time to reflect on what he has written. It is the story of a life spent with the web: BBSes and...

This post is visible to RSS subscribers only. What? Read more about RSS Club. This morning, I once more had one of the hardest mornings ever. Nothing special actually happened. I got up at 7...

Exactly what VFX Supervisor Marion Spates says here.

[…] I mean I hope everyone is excited as I am about what I do. The one thing I try to encourage every day is for us all to have fun. If people aren’t having fun, you are not going to get best work out of people.

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This was the second talk I recommended as part of the beyond tellerrand partnership with TYPO3. They invited me to curate a few slots at this year at their Developer Days. André Michelle agreed to join and I was happy that his talk was so wonderfully received. A great mixture of tech and audio. The version he gave at beyond tellerrand can be found here. Reply via Email

As part of the beyond tellerrand partnership with TYPO3, TYPO3 invited me to curate a few slots at this year’s developer days. For one of the slots we picked Matthias Ott. Great talk once more, reminding us what creating with the web actually means and why this is important. Reply via Email

A few days ago, right after I posted my write-up of Head in the Cloud, my friend Sacha Judd, who spoke at beyond tellerrand three times already, published a piece called “What makes a conference great”. Reading it felt a little like hearing my own talk played back to me inst...

It is absolutely disgusting to see just how corrupt an organisation like FIFA is. We knew it all along, of course, but having it laid out so openly, as is currently the case with the rescinding of that red card, is frustrating and sad.

Disgusting!

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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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