I’ll be flying to Oslo tomorrow. When I was just packing my bags, I thought of the last time I was there. It was the summer 0f 2003, and we had been doing a camping roundtrip in southern Norway. It was one of the hottest summers Europe had seen so far, with more than 40°C in my home… Continue reading Nrwy
Should my tech conference / community have a Code of Conduct? – Recommended Resources
(Header Photo from CSSConf EU 2015) The short answer is here: tl;dr Discussions about the necessity and relevance of Codes of Conduct for tech communities and at conferences or other events has been returning every few months over the past years. I’ve put together a list of fantastic resources about the topic that were written by… Continue reading Should my tech conference / community have a Code of Conduct? – Recommended Resources
How to prepare and write a tech conference talk
Why I’m writing this post A few weeks ago, @Charlotteis asked on Twitter about resources for preparing / giving conference talks. Their tweet reminded me that I had meant to write down my process for a very long time. So here it is. I’m planning to write two posts about this topic – this first… Continue reading How to prepare and write a tech conference talk
No place to hide: January
I did photo shootings some copywriting wait for a phone call make a list of conferences update my website finally upload my photos of Berlin’s most expensive construction site (aka WTF BER) I saw the snow the Alster someone very expensive buildings in a part of Berlin I’d never been to a community shutting down… Continue reading No place to hide: January
My Twenty-fifteen
Only a few more hours are left until 2015 is coming to a close. This year went by both extremely slowly and super fast. It has been a no-good year for me, and I’m not really in a good position to write a decent retrospective right now. But I’ve done these posts before and didn’t want to give up the… Continue reading My Twenty-fifteen
speed of light
We won’t solve problems if we don’t allow ourselves time to think about them. … I read a few months ago in a post about the tech industry’s pace. A few minutes ago, I ate a bowl of strawberries and mango pieces and this sentence popped up out of nothing. Many major things in my life have… Continue reading speed of light
This is not a food blog (but here’s something about Pasta)
I hate cooking, I’m a bad cook, I don’t care about fanciness of my food, and I’m definitely not a foodie (although I enjoy good food when I don’t have to prepare it myself). I usually just cook food that is prepared quickly, eat it so I don’t feel hungry anymore, sigh because I need to… Continue reading This is not a food blog (but here’s something about Pasta)
It’s a ride
It was only four months ago, during an all-day breakfast with a bunch of great people, when someone said the word for the first time: burnout. The word came at me like a warm, friendly breeze, in a sentence of nice words about taking time for oneself, and it felt like a hurricane inside me. Burnout.… Continue reading It’s a ride
And then I accidentally
And then I accidentally stumbled upon a memory card with a few more photos I took in Norway. The photos are from one of our last days there. It was one of these days when you look out of the window in the morning and a ship is passing by. One of the days when… Continue reading And then I accidentally
Norway 2014
In the last days of December 2014, we spent a few days in Norway. My last time there had been for a roundtrip 13 years ago, and I still had those memories of impressive, breathtaking landscapes in mind. We had rented a tiny log cabin located near a small village on an island close to… Continue reading Norway 2014