Marc Thiele's Journal

Like I did for the first half of the year, here is my list of events I attend from August 2026 on.

Ana Rodrigues has transformed a past talk into a lovely read about how her personal website became her third-space.

Chris Shiflett turned 50 in May and wrote a piece about it that I keep thinking about and that I kept marked as “unread” in my RSS reader to come back to it later.

This post is visible to RSS subscribers only.

Exactly what VFX Supervisor Marion Spates says here. […] I mean I hope everyone is excited as I am about what I do.

This was the second talk I recommended as part of the beyond tellerrand partnership with TYPO3.

As part of the beyond tellerrand partnership with TYPO3, TYPO3 invited me to curate a few slots at this year’s developer days.

A few days ago, right after I posted my write-up of Head in the Cloud, my friend Sacha Judd, who spoke at beyond tellerrand three times already, published a piece called “What makes a conference great”.

It is absolutely disgusting to see just how corrupt an organisation like FIFA is.

Last Friday I got to open the Head in the Cloud summit by mittwald in Espelkamp.

I am off to Espelkamp, where mittwald run their Event Head in the Cloud.

Looking forward to getting to Amsterdam tomorrow morning.

I really am a big fan of having an archive of what happened throughout all the years of an event.

This year, 16 years ago, I closed the doors of Flashforum.de.

In March 2021 I got my last keyboard.

10 years after you registered a trademark in Germany, you have to renew it, if you want, otherwise the copyright ends after the period you paid for.

The last days of social media might be the first days of something more human: a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect.

Lot’s of things I agree to here and feel the same about.

Reply via Email

Something has been is on my mind lately all the time – or rather, it’s been confirmed by the words of others I respect.

Note: This article was originally posted on 18 January 2020, but I updated it several times and last on 1 April 2026 again.

This is a good page for any event organiser.

Reply via Email

Reply via Email

I had a fantastic time.

Gavin Strange celebrates 25 years of creating under the name of Jamfactory.

“The Ensh*ttificator” is a little movie about who it is to blame for all the things getting worse.

A while ago, when recording an episode for one of my podcasts, I slipped up on a few things that didn’t ruin the conversation or content, but that would have made it a lot more enjoyable to listen to and saved me a lot of editing afterwards.

Here comes a round of events I attend in the first 6 months of this year.

A morning jog via fields and forest with Toffie, our dog.

I haven’t had much time to read anything online between October and now. beyond tellerrand Berlin needed all my attention as well as the post event stuff afterwards and now Düsseldorf.

Very happy that two events I am involved in are on Manuel’s list.

Jeremy says: I haven’t “upgraded” my iPhone to iOS 26 and I have no plans to.

David Bowie. 10 years gone already, but forever here.

I started to download all my photos from Flickr and re-upload them on my own website.

A while ago I sat down with Brad Frost for an episode of his podcast Wake Up Excited, which he recently released.We ended up talking about far more than conferences.

For some it might be nothing special, but over here it rarely snows and I embrace this right now.

Wow!

When chatting to my friend Basti recently, he asked me if I had see the latest Video of Rick Beato on YouTube and I had not to that point.

It was great to be back in London and met a few lovely people.

A quick note: I am moving to a new hosting partner.

I am with my current hosting partner since 1999 when they still had the name One-2-One.

Another Smashing Conference in Freiburg in the books.

When I mentioned, how my timeline looks on Facebook these days, when I visit it – which I rarely do really, Jeremy Keith gave me the tip to add “?

Ouh … quick!

Of course many will ask why even have a website these days?

Based on the feedback I received, many of you enjoyed the newsletter recommendations I shared last time and Eric and Dan even followed up and added their readings.

We spent some quality time in Portugal for the last two weeks and drove down via France and Spain and back up along the coast.

Passing Namur on my way to Portugal.

The things you subscribe to change over time.