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 Ale … | Continue reading

Off to attend #feedesign in Vilnius which is not only a design festival, but also a meeting of 50+ event organisers to discuss, learn about and help each other with today’s pain points. Reply via Email | Continue reading

A short note as maybe someone does not know, like I did not know. Did you know that you can hold down a key on your keyboard in MacOS for special characters, like you can on iOS? I never tried this and certain characters can’t be typed. For example: if I want to type the name or … | Continue reading

I have been guest of the devslove.it podcast and it was a lovely experience and a – as I think – fun conversation with Alex Bürner and Dominik Laube. This is part 2 of 3 titled “Speed Snack” in which we had “quick” Q&A session. Reply via Email | Continue reading

I might have been slower during the last couple of weeks in replying to your emails. Well, the reason is, that I am on the road with the Smashing Team, running SmashingConf, been away with the family and am going to run and attend and speak at more events in the upcoming month. I … | Continue reading

Here is my set of photos from this year’s Smashing Conference in New York. We run this show since 10 years already. Always great to come back. Next stop Antwerp, then Berlin’s beyond tellerrand Reply via Email | Continue reading

What do events/conferences/design festivals/younameit mean to you? I'd be interested in a conversation. Speaking to a lot of event organisers recently, one issue is one they all share these days: less and less people attend their in-person events. But why? ❓ Are people generally … | Continue reading

For years and years I am looking for a way to change the email address on my mac to not use the icloud email to send invites from out of my calendar. Now finally I got it working. While I was looking for a way to change it on macOS, I now stumbled over a way where someone changed … | Continue reading

In this article Sophie Koonin encourages you to attend events. She summarises a lot of the things I talk and write about for a while, which are: Buy your tickets early Conferences need sponsors! She also lists a few events and gives a short overview what they are about and what t … | Continue reading

Had a lovely meeting today with Marc Biebusch from Diesdas Digital today and chatted about a lot of things. Diesdas Digital are hosting the Warm-Up of this years beyond tellerrand in Berlin again and I'd love to say thanks again with this. But I also remember a moment in our conv … | Continue reading

If you know me, you know that my heart beats for hand crafted, human curated community events, where you can see and feel that people who care and want to run this event, actually are behind those events. I might be biased, as I myself run an event like this with beyond tellerran … | Continue reading

Spending some days in London at “Craft and Work”, an event by my friend Keir Whitaker. Reply via Email | Continue reading

Running events like beyond tellerrand is wonderful and even more that I can call something like this “my job”. But it’s also exhausting. You might think, once the festival is over I can relax, but usually there is a lot of work post-event to be done. Easily two more weeks full of … | Continue reading

On May 13th and 14th, I organise my annual stop of beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf. If you are from Düsseldorf or arrive in Düsseldorf before you maybe want to attend “Literatur & Livemusik 2024” by my friend Lars Terlinden, taking place from May 9th to 12th. It offer a book mark … | Continue reading

A generated film that never is played in the same way, you ask? For whom could this work out and isn't that too chaotic to watch? Well, if your subject is Brian Eno and his life, it is absolutely fitting. Panel with Eno and the people behind the film At least the version I have s … | Continue reading

Despite some personal problems within the family during my trip to Brighton, which made me worry, I had a wonderful time at this year’s Patterns Day. It was the third time this event took place and once more it was great to meet old friends and make new friends during the day. To … | Continue reading

I stumbled over the artwork by Andrew Scott on Instagram. I like that he uses the whole thing, you attach to your wall as an art piece and not just what is in the frame ;) Like this one, in which “the artwork” cracks the frame with a hammer. Or this one where the glass of the fra … | Continue reading

Steph Eckles says “Sometimes, improving your application CSS just takes a one-line upgrade or enhancement” and released 12 useful modern CSS one-line upgrades. Reply via Email | Continue reading

I think, but am not sure, I heard of Shift Happens, the book project of Marcin Wichary, when he spoke at beyond tellerrand in 2018, where he gave a brilliant talk about “The Abridged History Of Having Fun \/\/ith Keyboards” (watch the talk here on YouTube). Back then he already s … | Continue reading

It was such a wonderful day over here yesterday. We took it as a chance to take a long walk along the Rhine. It was such a great feeling to have the sun back. I knew it before, but I am really dependent on the weather and my mood is heavily influenced by how light or dark a day i … | Continue reading

I often get asked “What is the secret to a successful event?” and surely you first have to define what “success” means in this context. Mostly, when asking me, the asking person means the fact that past attendees speak about my event as a friendly event with a special atmosphere … | Continue reading