Let 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 ;)
It 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.
I 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.
A lovely, unagitated article with thoughts of Jason about AI, the future and himself in all of this.
[…] 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.
Next weekend, 24 and 25 May, I am going to be in Würzburg to attend (and help a little bit) at the Accessibility Club Summit 2025.
Would be lovely to see you there! Arriving Friday around 4pm and leaving Monday morning.
A lot is planned and you can see everything that is happening plus a detailed schedule on their website.
See you there!
I usually always wait long before I upgrade to a new OS version. Now I finally upgraded to Sequoia (15.5) and I have to admit that everything feels much faster. I am surprised.
BERLIN DESIGN Connect is planned as a community gathering as part of the Berlin Design Week 2025. Right before I went deep into the last bits and pieces for beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2025, I have been invited to be part of it.
The event has three different stages plus networking space and I am part of the “Community Panel” together with Ana Regidor, Felicitas Schmittinger and Harshini Karunaratne as well as a Community Space where people can get information about beyond tellerrand.
Next to all this, workshops and talks are planned also. Find the full program on this page
I am not shy to give interviews, but most of the times someone asks me for an interview I wonder if anyone actually is interested in the stuff I am doing. I mean, what am I really doing then? I run an event. Nothing that is really special, is it?
That said, I have learned to embrace if someone comes to me and says that it is “wonderful” or “truly special” and even “life changing”. If those people say that to you, they have a reason to do so. But I really needed to learn this and to then also say “Thanks, that is very kind of you to say” instead of “Well … I just run this bloody event. Anyone else could do this, but thanks.”
Rainer Kunst – an experience event organiser as well, amongst many other things – interviewed me for the April 2025 edition Vivid Magazin. This was absolutely enjoyable and lovely and his questions even made me think again about some of the things I do and how I do them.
You’ll find topics like “How do you find your speakers?” covered as well as “How does this show organised by you solely influence your family life?” or “Marc, what is your superpower?” ;)
I like how it turned out and if you want to read it, please drop in here for the English version and click here, if you want to read the German edition.
Jason Santa Maria is back on his blog. And running it with Kirby.
⇾ Visit: Hello and Welcome Back Jason