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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

Der Spahn fehlt jetzt bestimmt an allen Ecken und Enden.

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 28/09/2026

Thanks a lot – and likewise, Chris! I thoroughly enjoyed your talk. And it is a topic that is genuinely important, so I really appreciate the work you are doing! ✊🌍 Would have loved to talk a bit more at the conference, and I hope our paths cross again soon. 🤗

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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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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.txt

Chris talking with his computer full of stickers in front of him

A slide showing the green energy scores the 4 biggest cloud hyperscalers

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 25/09/2026

Danke! Ja, ist eine schöne Ecke hier – da wird sich auch sicher noch eine Situation ergeben in der ein gutes Café dringend benötigt wird heute und morgen 😁

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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

Geleerte Mülltonnen vor den schwäbischen Nachbarn wieder zurückstellen!

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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

Wouldn’t that be great for their future stock prices, too?

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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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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 18/09/2026

And before anyone comes at me with “but calling it fascist tho?”. Read up on the DHH of '26. He wrote on his blog: “When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them. This isn't hard, it isn't cruel. It's the basic logic of self-preservation.”

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Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH

Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 mi…

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 18/09/2026

Not cool. 😕 Also worth adding here: DigitalOcean seems to have enough money to fund DHH‘s fascist Linux … another reason to avoid them at all costs now. This is all very fucked up tbh. www.digitalocean.com/blog/digital...

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Built for agents: Omarchy's pipeline moves to DigitalOcean | DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean is joining the Omacom Foundation, the nonprofit that funds Omarchy's infrastructure and the open source projects it depends on, as a Founding Corporate Patron, and will serve as Omarchy's...

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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

I’d still suggest a light EQ dip around 500 Hz and a high shelf boost starting around 8–10 kHz to help compensate for the Royal Albert Hall’s challenging acoustics and bring the solo violin forward a bit more. 😉

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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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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 15/09/2026

This is all very depressing

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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

This could be an interesting strategy as well! A giant otter contentedly munching away on Internet undersea cables. … 🦦

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 14/09/2026

You think … they can’t be trusted?

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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

'How can we organize our political institutions so that bad or incompetent rulers (whom we should try not to get, but whom we so easily might get all the same) cannot do too much damage?'” —Karl Popper

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 11/09/2026

“That traditional question of political theory, 'Who should rule?', which begs for an authoritarian answer such as 'the best', or 'the wisest', or 'the people', or 'the majority', […] should be replaced by a completely different question such as …

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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 · 06/09/2026

Excuse my French here – but with a late grandfather who co-founded a local SA group and was later let off as a “Mitläufer” thanks to a Jewish lawyer, as I recently learned, I’m done with nuance when it comes to this idiotic, wrong, and destructive way of looking at the world and life in general.

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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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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

Christian Stöcker
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 · 06/09/2026

Oh enjoy! Greetings from Denmark (which is why I won’t make it this time) ☀️👋

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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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