MaKey MaKey is amazingly cool. It is a very simple Arduino based board with a USB cable and Alligator Clips to simulate keys pressed by touching a cable and closing the circuit by holding the other cable. This would be boring though, so you can connect the second clip to anything that can transmit a […]

The last few days I spent in Freiburg, Germany at the first Smashingconf. All the things I did there have been released as slides, screencast and a long article (my notes, actually) on Smashingmag. The video should be out soon, too. So this is about my impressions of the conference. The organisation The success of […]

If you thought this post is about scripting patterns and methodologies I have to disappoint you – it is about a personal matter. As a rule, I do not post personal life things here as this started as a professional scratchpad and will remain that way. However, as this personal matter does in a roundabout […]

I just got back from having an amazing time at the Smashing Conference in Freiburg, Germany (report to follow soon). I was lucky to be asked to be the closing keynote speaker, and the talk was great fun to give and seems to have pleased the audience if Twitter can be trusted. The slides of […]

I spent the last weekend in Warsaw, Poland to attend the Mozcamp 2012 meeting with Mozillians from around the world to see where the project is going and how we can best use the resources we have. In essence: it was a blast. You can see at the very packed schedule that we covered a […]