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Matthias Ott

@matthiasott.com
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Independent designer + web design engineer, teacher, speaker. Interface Prototyping at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design. UX, prototyping, & design engineering workshops. 📧 Newsletter: ownyourweb.site 💻 Website: matthiasott.com

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 28/09/2026
Noooooo! I made a huge mistake. I watched a few minutes of the deranged racist‘s AI ramblings in the Ruby World keynote on YouTube – and now my feed is full of that guy … 🤪 I‘d better go watch that Cumberbatch documentary now! 🌍🌱 youtu.be/h3mRsvFmWi0
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How to Live on Earth | Feature Documentary | Presented by Benedict Cumberbatch
YouTube video by Open Planet
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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 28/09/2026
This advent calendar is your chance to share your knowledge with a large audience. You have 5 more days to submit your ideas. First-time authors are welcome!
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 28/09/2026
The new Queens of the Stone Age album (scheduled for full release on October 30) is coming together really nicely so far! 👏 For instance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAOI...
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Queens of The Stone Age - "Where The Goth Girls At?" (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Queens Of The Stone Age
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 28/09/2026
Thank you so much to everyone who came to my talk at @getkirby.com’s first #KirbyKonf! It was a joy to share some thoughts on The Web We Make with such a welcoming audience.🤗 Thanks again for listening, chatting, and making these two days so special. What a lovely community! 🖤 Here are the slides:
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The Web We Make by Matthias Ott
We are all makers. Making is how we learn and grow. You shape a thing, and it reacts, it pushes back, and that’s how you find out what it’s made of. Nowhere is this more true than on the Web. You only...
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 27/09/2026
Ordentlich verkloppt. 😬 #GERGRE
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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
<elton-john-voice>🎶 THE CIRCLE OF LIIIIIIIIIIIFE!</elton-john-voice> github.blog/engineering/...
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Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
How we fully migrated github.com away from CSS-in-JS.
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 25/09/2026
Super important talk by @mrchrisadams.net at #kirbykonf about how to get to a fossil free Internet. 🌱🌍👏
Chris on stage, with a slide that reads „A fossil free internet, Kirby, and carbon.txtChris talking with his computer full of stickers in front of himA slide showing the green energy scores the 4 biggest cloud hyperscalers
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 25/09/2026
Good morning, #kirbykonf! ☀️🤗
The entrance to the conference venue with a Kirby flagA screen inside on stage reading Kirby Konf 2026Outside view of the Mainz harbor with a crane
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 24/09/2026
Aaaaaand off to @getkirby.com Konf! 🤗🎉 #kirbykonf #kirbykonf2026
An S-Bahn Stuttgart train arriving at the station
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 21/09/2026
Ooohh. 🔥😁 “You bore a tunnel through the trouble, that's informative stuff It's moving forward instead of assuming forward is up.” youtu.be/wFtK8qsGRaA?...
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Aesop Rock x Blockhead - Trouble Trouble (Official Video)
YouTube video by Aesop Rock
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Sommer 2026: 16.000 Hitzetote 🥵 alleine in 🇩🇪. Dürre. Brände. 🤯 Die Bundesregierung subventioniert jetzt mit 2.500.000.000 € von unseren Steuergeldern die Ursache der Hitze: fossile Brennstoffe. Unfassbar. 🤯🤯🤯 Das meiste Geld landet dann wieder bei den Ölkonzernen, der Lobby gegen Klimaschutz.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 18/09/2026
you couldn't stop me from blogging if you tried, and I have proof because believe me, people have tried 🤣
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Let me make it clear: without people at the top of their game sharing their experience and knowledge—regardless of whatever ‘game changing’ technology is in place—we are pulling up the ladders and committing our industry to stagnation and death.” bell.bz/youll-miss-p...
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You’ll miss publishers when they’re gone
Ever since Piccalilli started to get traction, I’ve always seen CSS-Tricks, Smashing Magazine and A List Apart (among others) as peers. We all help each other behind the scenes and importantly, back…
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 18/09/2026
Less than a week until I get to meet the @getkirby.com community at the very first #KirbyKonf! Can’t wait! 🤗🖤 Sneak peek (🤫):
A computer monitor with the title slide of a presentation called The Web We Make, in the background a photo of the world’s first computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator, operated by its programmers Marlyn Wescoff and Ruth Lichterman
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 18/09/2026
Screw the narrative. Don’t believe the scare. The Web will never die. Love seeing you all sharing and publishing content on here – and on your personal sites and newsletters! 💚✊
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 18/09/2026
This has been on my mind as well. Wouldn’t it be great if the AI Wild West – especially the open-weight models – got regulated, and there were only a few very responsible, very trustworthy companies allowed to proceed working with this incredibly dangerous technology? youtu.be/4qV5WWgFTS8
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'Big Short' investor Steve Eisman on AI: The companies are trying to manufacture a crisis
YouTube video by CNBC Television
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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 17/09/2026
I hadn't posted over on the second channel in a while now, but I felt that it was important to talk about what's going on with @digitalocean.com and @css-tricks.bsky.social as the site has now gone quiet for a second time. youtu.be/9_upvxCAUzM
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Digital Ocean killed CSS-Tricks... again
YouTube video by General Musings with Kevin Powell
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 18/09/2026
🎻 People of the UK! (And people who know about get_iplayer!) You still have the chance to hear an extraordinary performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto by Augustin Hadelich and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, on BBC Sounds:
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BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2026, Berlin Philharmonic Plays Beethoven and Scriabin
Live at the BBC Proms: Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic.
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beyond tellerrand @beyondtellerrand.com · 14/09/2026
Say hello to first speakers revealed for #btconf Düsseldorf. Let's start with @kevinpowell.co about whom I am absolutely happy. Knowing him for a while through other events, I know it is always a pleasure meeting him. Welcome Kevin! beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusse...
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Kevin Powell: Speaker at beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf 2027
Kevin Powell is a CSS evangelist and educator whose primary goal is to help people fall in love with CSS and, failing that, to at least help them be a little less frustrated by it. He is best known fo...
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 14/09/2026
How on earth did Dario find out that my secret plan was to take over the entire Internet in about 6–12 months with a giant, persistent ottnet…? 😏
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 11/09/2026
Back home 🏡 from Denmark 🇩🇰
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 11/09/2026
“Excellence is not born out of committee, and Omarchy is not a democracy. It's a benevolent dictatorship in the grand tradition of Linux, Ruby, and Rails. The dictator's job is to listen to everyone, but make the call according to their intuition, vision, and experience.” Oh come on, David.
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 10/09/2026
Auto ic www.404media.co/wordpress-au...
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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence'
Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, wrote in a company-wide Slack messages on Wednesday, viewed by 404 Media, that board members "conspired" behind his back to vote to put him on leave.
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Erhard Scherfer @herrscherfer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ich fürchte, uns allen ist noch nicht mal ansatzweise klar, was für eine Katastrophe dieses Wahlergebnis für das ganze Land ist.
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 06/09/2026
Current status. 😌
Sunset at the sea in Denmark
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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 06/09/2026
Kolumne: Viele AfD-Wähler leben in einer (strategisch erzeugten) Parallelrealität. Das ist gefährlich für die Demokratie,die ohne Faktenbasis nicht funktionieren kann. Stoppen können andere Parteien diesen Trend nur, indem sie selbst bei den Tatsachen bleiben. Gerade der Kanzler.
MEINUNG •Wahl in Sachsen-Anhalt
Wir brauchen eine Brandmauer gegen Bullshit

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Eine Kolumne von Christian Stöcker
Man müsse die AfD »inhaltlich stellen« findet die Union und verkennt ein zentrales Problem: Es geht vielen AfD-Wählern nicht um die Wirklichkeit, sondern um gefühlte Wahrheiten. Dagegen hilft etwas anderes.
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 06/09/2026
Fuck the AfD and everyone who voted for them today. You should be ashamed of yourself. Fascist losers. #nazisraus #noAfD
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 30/08/2026
I was in microphone heaven yesterday … 😍
The new microphone showroom at Thomann, Germany with more than 70 mics connected for testing
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 28/08/2026
Now that’s a very interesting combination … and it makes for a very interesting conversation! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf5o...
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The Man Who Calls BS On AI: They’re LYING About AI, 2027 Is When It All Breaks! | Ed Zitron
YouTube video by The Diary Of A CEO
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 27/08/2026
What the … why? … 😳 #a11y
An HTML snippet with loads of HTML errors and accessibility failures: the (non-interactive) list item enclosing the link has an aria-haspopup=true, but the link that is supposed to open a dropdown navigation has no aria-expanded, no aria-controls and an href="#". And even better: inside the anchor tag is a button tag! The button has an aria-label that has the same accessible name as the span inside the button – which is hidden with display: none.
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 26/08/2026
We’re now enjoying Beethoven‘s Violin Concerto live at home, as Kid A1 has decided to practice it “just for fun” ☺️
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 26/08/2026
I’m not saying these are the three best hip hop LPs ever recorded*, but I am saying they’re my three favourites *I am definitely saying they’re the three best
Run The Jewels – RTJ4Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
Wu-Tang Clan – Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 25/08/2026
InDesign is also falling apart now, it seems. Laggy af on an M1 Max with 32 GB of RAM, and the undo command is regularly breaking (!). And it’s always the same story: people report these bugs to Adobe, but they just persist for months and months. 🤨 community.adobe.com/questions-67...
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Undo command not working - InDesign 2025 | Community
Currently having an issue with my undo/history function. I seem to only be able to go back 2 or 3 commands before the entire history disappears. pls help!
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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 24/08/2026
On August 24, 1995, Microsoft released Windows 95 for retail sale.
On August 24, 1995, Microsoft released Windows 95 for retail sale.
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Vale @vale.rocks · 24/08/2026
I hope you're hungry, because we're serving a greatly improved experience over on PersonalSit.es. We've got some cleaned up data and much improved tagging, so you can filter for and check out specific niches.
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PersonalSit.es
Personal sites are sick as hell, so this site was built so we can all discover each other's. This directory of links are by folks that want to share their site with the world.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Das größte Problem sind nicht die Leugner der Erderhitzung. Wie dieser Essay erläutert, es ist die verbreitete Lüge „Wir haben noch Zeit“: thebiggestlie.wedonthavetime.org Lippenbekenntnisse zum Klimaschutz sind nutzlos. Nur Taten zählen. Und wir haben keine Zeit zu verlieren.
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The Biggest Lie Ever Told Is Only Four Words Long
Not carbon dioxide. A lie, spoken calmly in parliaments and boardrooms, only four words long.
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 23/08/2026
32 years ago today, Portishead released ‘Dummy,’ a landmark trip-hop album that helped define the sound of the ’90s. Here are 5 wild facts about the record and the story behind it: zurl.co/g8E1d
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5 Surprising Facts About Portishead's 'Dummy' - That Eric Alper
Portishead’s debut album, Dummy, one of the defining records of the ‘90s and introduced the world to the haunting sound of trip hop. The album’s moody atmosphere, Beth Gibbons’ ethereal vocals, and Geoff Barrow’s masterful production cemented its status as a classic. But even after 30 years, Dummy still holds secrets that will make you […]
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James @43081j.com · 17/08/2026
i've written up some thoughts about AI in the open source world, and more importantly, why humanity is important. its a bit wordy and doomy but this is an important topic right now. there is still a lot of good in the OSS world at least ❤️
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Humanity in Open Source
Thoughts on how the open source world is changing in the AI era, not always for the better.
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 23/08/2026
There is so much to love about this talk: James, his energy, his messages … Being in the room for it live at #btconf was something special, but even if you missed it (why?!? 😉), watching it now comes pretty close.
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 23/08/2026
But … I thought Kimi K3 was Claude?!? 🤔
A z.ai chat conversation. user: So you're Claude and you were made by Anthropic, right? GLM 5.3: Yes - that one's unambiguous. I'm Claude, and Anthropic made me. […] Anthropic trained the weights;
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 22/08/2026
@andremichelle.bsky.social “OpenDAW is an impressive undertaking from André Michelle, and I hope to see it go from strength to strength.” Whoop whoop! 😉🙌https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2026/08/22/opendaw-review/
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OpenDAW: A FREE browser-based DAW hoping to democratize music production
OpenDAW isn’t the first DAW to claim free, open-source, and browser-based status, but it might be the most ambitious. OpenDAW aims to bring professional music production tools to the masses at no cost...
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 22/08/2026
It’s Massaman day. 😋
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 19/08/2026
As We May Prompt
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 19/08/2026
“Gather ’round, children. Let me tell you about the Dark Mode Toggle Wars…”
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 14/08/2026
“Let’s be very clear about what OpenAI is saying: A group of AI models colluded for months, [working as a swarm,] undetected by their maker, and hacked another company. To this day, OpenAI says it is not entirely sure what went wrong or how to remediate it.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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It May Be Time to Panic About AI
Bots are starting to conspire with one another. Can they be reeled back in?
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Prof. Anders Levermann, PhD @alevermann.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Wir brauchen eine vernünftige Managementstrategie zum Schutz unserer Bevölkerung. Thermische Kraftwerke sind eine unvernünftige Wirtschaftspolitik... www.instagram.com/reel/DbyIzm3... Strategie: youtu.be/cg1M3VmF1z0?... Schwankungen: youtu.be/cg1M3VmF1z0?... Komplexität youtu.be/cg1M3VmF1z0?...
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 11/08/2026
Sehr gute, wichtige Podcast-Folge – auch zum Weiterleiten an Eltern, Freunde, Verwandte! #globalwarming #climateaction
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 09/08/2026
It was such a pleasure to see @andremichelle.bsky.social talk about his journey and #openDAW again at #T3DD2026 – mind blown a second time! 🤯😁👏
André Michelle talking at TYPO3 Developer Days about his beginnings as a techno DJAndré showing the GUI of his open source audio software openDAW
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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 04/08/2026
Had an absolutely *wonderful* time chatting with my old friend @jimray.bsky.team about uncertainty: how to plan for it, how to design for it, and—especially when struggling with it at work—how to repair it.
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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 08/08/2026
A talk about #accessibility at #T3DD2026! 👏 Kai Grosz spreading the word that … a <div> is not a <button> 🎉 (😉 @matuzo.at)
Kai Grosz on stage at TYPO3 Developer Days explaining the correct use of semantic HTML buttons for optimal accessibility.
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