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“My perfect Berlin weekend” was a regular feature in Exberliner, the English-language city magazine.

On my birthday, I want to take the time again to look back at the past year, including travel, talks, writing and various things I did and enjoyed.

I've spent quite a bit of time in Australia over the years, so this post is an ongoing collection of places I liked in Melbourne and Sydney.

My ultimate collection of everything you need for your slides, from design assets to presentation tools.

Part 6 of my slides series showcases more examples from the community for inspiration, with details on the design, aesthetic and creation process.

What’s next, now that you’ve given a successful presentation with beautiful slides?

Part 4 of this series dives deeper into the little details and examples of visual design elements you can use to implement your talk’s aesthetic.

In part 3 of this series, I share some tips and inspiration for presenting technical content in your slides and making “boring” topics more fun and engaging.

2024 was an eventful but also difficult year for me.

How will technology shape our world going forward?

After I published my guide to making beautiful slides, I got a lot of great feedback and I especially loved that others had already used it for their talks.

There’s this feeling of joy and excitement you sometimes get when you start using a new tool, discover the little details that make a product great and feel the rush of motivation and new ideas that comes with it.

I love designing slides for my talks, so here are some of my not-so-secret secrets and three beginner-friendly steps for how you can up your slides game.

My personal favourites, tips and recommendations for where to go and what to do in my home city.

I love shitty robots.

Prodigy is a project very dear to my heart and seeing it come to life has been one of the most exciting experiences as a software developer so far.

As more and more people and companies are getting involved with open-source software, balancing the expectations of an open community and a traditional provider vs. consumer relationship is becoming increasingly difficult.

The way we talk about AI is a mess.

I've seen a couple of these posts pop up over the past year or so, and I've always enjoyed reading other people's stories.

Today, we launched the website for our new company, Explosion AI.

I hate to admit it, but during my late teenage years and the beginning of my adult life, I massively fell for self-help blogs.

For four years, I worked for a popular print magazine.