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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.
Reply via EmailI 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
Reply via EmailDavid Bowie. 10 years gone already, but forever here.
Reply via EmailI 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!
Reply via EmailIt 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.
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