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Matthias Ott
01 Jun 2020 • Matthias Ott

The Right Way to Use fonts.com Web Fonts

Let’s talk about web fonts. More specifically, about a mistake I have seen developers make in several projects for different agencies: Embedding a web font in the wrong way. In each of the cases, the service they were using was Fonts.com, and given the service’s popularity, ...

Matthias Ott
31 May 2020 • Matthias Ott

Change and the Status Quo

Nature changes. Culture changes. Technologies change. Societies change. Markets change. We change. Change is everywhere around us. All the time. Inevitably. Change is a constant. The only problem with this is that human beings generally don’t like change that m...

Daniel Pietzsch
31 May 2020

2 songs. 1 issue. 25 years apart. 0 changed. Rage Against the Machine – Killing in the name. YouTube video: Rage Against The Machine - Killing In the Name (Official Music Video) Body Count – No Lives Matter YouTube video: Body Count - No Lives Matter (official video)

Matthias Ott
30 May 2020 • Matthias Ott

The Beautiful

It is 1995. A 13-year old boy in Germany is playing basketball in his room. The walls are plastered with posters. Michael Jordan (life-sized), Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, Shaq, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Sean Kemp, David Robinson, and many more are all watching him p...

Daniel Pietzsch
30 May 2020

📄 Black lives fuckin' matter

How can one not sympathise with the #BlackLivesMatter movement? Generally, and especially right now. George Floyd was – unnecessarily, intentionally, almost casually – killed by a white police officer. And he was only the most recent case of many many many others in the past.

Matthias Ott
29 May 2020 • Matthias Ott

The Details

Ask any business owner or manager what could be improved about the operations of their company and they will very likely tell you that they are working on “improving efficiency”. They are switching from waterfall to agile to improve efficiency. They are tracking tasks and me...

Daniel Pietzsch
28 May 2020

📄 How I publish to this website using iOS

Describing my workflow of how I use GitLab, Jekyll, Working Copy and other iOS apps to publish to my static website.

Matthias Ott
28 May 2020 • Matthias Ott

Digital Type Specimens

Type specimens are as old as printed typography. They were originally designed by printers and type foundries as documents that would show typefaces in use across different applications and with all available weights and styles, so that potential customers could evaluate a t...

Daniel Pietzsch
27 May 2020

This is a test post from iOS using the Working Copy app. Also trying out an external markdown editor called Pretext.

Matthias Ott
27 May 2020 • Matthias Ott

The Curse of Knowledge

A few weeks ago, my son came up to me and asked if I wanted to guess which song he was about to clap. I agreed, sure that it couldn’t be so hard to guess. But as soon as he started, I didn’t have the slightest idea which song he was clapping. He became a bit frustrated and i...

Matthias Ott
25 May 2020 • Matthias Ott

100 Days of Writing

So, I haven’t written in a while. Or, to be more precise: I haven’t finished a written piece in a while. That is not because I didn’t write at all, but in the current situation, I simply decided to prioritize family and work over writing, which is still kind of a hobby for m...

Daniel Pietzsch
25 May 2020

I bought yet another pedal…

Daniel Pietzsch
20 May 2020

📄 First VP-6000 Darkroom Prints

I made my first set of black and white prints with my new Kaiser VP-6000 enlarger. It’s been a bit of an experimental session figuring out all the settings and my personal preferences. But so far I have been very happy with the results.

Daniel Pietzsch
14 May 2020

Just started bulk-loading another 30.5m-spool of APX 400.

I think this film bulk-loaded is the best deal in black and white film photography. One spool is €48 at Nordfoto and gives you 18 roles of film with 36+ exposures each. That’s not even €2.70 per canister. It’s a steal. And it’s a great film.