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I’m an independent IT consultant and entrepreneur in the Internet and software business. I’m interested in design, enterprise applications, web apps and SaaS products. I design and develop business solutions and applications. I help companies in terms of software quality and knowledge transfer, e.g. with Angular and Spring Boot.

Cassie Evans – Animating the Impossible @ btconf Düsseldorf 2023

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Michelle Barker – Modern CSS Layout is Awesome! @ btconf Düsseldorf 2023

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The Disappearing Computer: An Exclusive Preview of Humane’s Screenless Tech | Imran Chaudhri | TED

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Sophie Koonin – This Website Is under Construction, a Love Letter to the Personal Website @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2023

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Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle

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Jude Pullen – Designing for Questions and Provocations @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2022

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Aarron Walter – Returning to Your Maker Roots @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2022

To me - with many of the speakers (Geri Coady, Jude Pullen, Cabeza Patata, among others) talking about change and experiments - Aarron Walter's idea of reconsidering (which inspired the Re:considering podcast co-hosted by Aarron) what's truly important to you has been the overarching theme of this year's beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf: Read more

Manuel Matuzovic – Lost in Translation @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2022

At beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2022 frontend developer and accessibility expert Manuel Matuzović gave this insightful - and genuinely funny - talk on web accessibility and in particular on how information often gets lost when web developers focus almost exclusively - to the exclusion of semantics and a design's intent - on the visual aspects while translating requirements into HTML and CSS: Read more

Linda Liukas – Programming Playgrounds @ beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2022

At this year’s iteration of beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf, Linda Liukas gave this fascinating opening talk on her ideas and concepts for a reimagined programming education: Read more

I see numbers

Metaphors play a vital role in how human beings make sense of the world. The ways in which we view and describe both the world around us and abstract thoughts often are inherently metaphorical. When relating to time, for example, we often use spatial metaphors such as "to look forward to", "time moving forward", or "to turn back time". For some though, relating to time in terms of spatial concepts and relations can take on quite a literal meaning. I've always visualised numbers, ... Read more
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