I am currently with my family celebrating Christmas in the middle of Germany. Just like the last years, I planned to do some reflection and write some deeper thinking posts, but now I keep getting challenged. Mostly to duels like these: I find the visits to my family cleansing. Not because of a bonding thing […]

A few weeks ago, I released http://removephotodata.com as a tool. It is a simple web app (well, a page) that allows you to remove the EXIF data of an image before sharing it online. I created it as a companion to my “Put social back in social media” talk at TEDx Linz. During this talk […]

Today we celebrate once again blue beanie day. People who build things that are online don their blue hat and show their support for standards based web development. All this goes back to Jeffrey Zeldman’s book that outlined that idea and caused a massive change in the field of web design. Let’s celebrate – once […]

Yesterday afternoon I presented at the “Diversify” hackathon in the offices of Spotify in Stockholm, Sweden. The event was aimed at increasing diversity in IT by inviting a group of students that represented a good mix of gender and ethnic background to work together on hacks with music and music data. There was no strict […]