Given that Nicole is a huge David Lynch fan, it’s surprising I haven’t watched this in full until recently. And I thoroughly enjoyed it. Great Lynch-y-en atmosphere and strangeness. Would watch again.
🎬 Lost Highway
Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
🎬 Knives Out
Well-written and filmed Cluedo/whodunnit-type movie. With star-cast. Awesome!
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Aspect Ratio in CSS: Hacks and a New Property
Layout on the Web is all about flexibility. That elements adjust their dimensions to the size of their content, be it texts of varying length or images of different sizes, is a welcome feature, especially in times of Responsive Web Design because this flexibility makes build...
I bought my first bass guitar: an Epiphone Thunderbird. Should have done this earlier, because it’s so much fun!
🎬 Night on Earth
I seem to really enjoy Jim Jarmusch’s movies. This was no exception. It’s an episode film about Taxi drivers in various famous cities in the same night at the same time. Not all episodes were equally good, but overall a very entertaining endeavour. Armin Mueller-Stahl in the New York episode is hilarious!
🎬 Blue Ruin
Now-hobo takes revenge for the killing of his parents, after the killer has been released from prison. He’s a complete amateur – yet very bad-ass – and gets into a fight with the killer’s whole family. Suspenseful. Thumbs up!
🎬 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Remarkable movie that manages to be very funny while also addressing several very serious topics such as rape, murder, suicide and racism – and still dealing with them in a serious way. Top!
🎬 The Invisible Man
Said “man” faked his death and now terrorises his (ex-)wife. Not really bad. But not really good, either. It’s probably a little better than I thought it would be. Still: not really recommended.
🔗 October 2019 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
My photo selection for October 2019.
Back to “normal” life.
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• Matthias Ott
The Thing With Leading in CSS
The spacing between individual elements of a website and, in particular, the vertical spacing, has been a regular matter of debate between web designers and developers. Designers insist that what they see in the browser doesn’t look at all like the layout they originally des...
📖 Fast Genial – Benedict Wells
Ich fühlte mich zu alt für dieses Buch.
Der fast zwanzigjährige Protagonist begibt sich mit zwei Freunden auf einen teils abenteuerlichen Roadtrip quer durch die USA um seinen leiblichen Vater ausfindig zu machen. Abgesehen vielleicht von der Gefühlswelt eines Spenderk...
📖 Die Bagage – Monika Helfer
Monika Helfer erzählt die Geschichte ihrer Großmutter – die sie nie persönlich kennengelernt hat – die Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts mit ihrer Familie abseits eines kleines Dorfes in Österreich lebten und von allen dort nur „Die Bagage“ genannt wurden.
Die damalige Zeit war sowieso schon nicht einfach. Und dann noch abseits zu leben und sein eigenes Ding durchzuziehen um so mehr.
Insgesamt eine bemerkenswerte Geschichte (im doppelten Sinne), kurzweilig erzählt auf 150 Seiten.
📖 Factfulness – Hans Rosling
Das Buch hat mir gefallen. Roslings Hauptpunkt ist, dass die Lebensumstände sich stetig verbessern und auch bereits viel Fortschritt passiert ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten. Hier konzentriert er sich hauptsächlich auf die grundlegenden Bedürfnisse des Menschen wie Unte...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Design Debt
The dilemma with debt is that it is easily incurred but, inevitably, there comes a time when you will have to pay it back. The problem with design debt is that it is even easier to amass it. Design debt? Yes, like technical debt but for designers.
Tight deadlines, feature cr...
🔗 September 2019 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
My photo selection for September 2019.
The holiday month. Photos of various stops in the alps. But mainly street photographs from Venice.
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• Matthias Ott
BICEPS: Six Core Needs for Humans at Work
How do you feel about your work at the moment? Do you enjoy what you are doing? Do you feel excited about it? Does it give you a sense of accomplishment and significance? Do you feel valued and are part of a great team? Do you enjoy your role as a leader or the choices you h...
Sitting on the balcony. It’s finally cooling down again at night. Listening to Purple Hill Witch. Drinking a cold beer. Culling photos for the September 2019 entry. It was the holiday month. Struggling a little going through that many images.
🔗 Petition 113349: Durchführung einer Studie zum "Racial Profiling" bei den Polizeibehörden des Bundes/der Bundesländer vom 06.07.2020
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Unterzeichnet!
Mit der Petition wird die Durchführung einer Studie zum "Racial Profiling" bei den Polizeibehörden des Bundes und der Bundesländer gefordert.
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• Matthias Ott
Fading Music in and Out in an Online Workshop (On a Mac)
When it became increasingly clear that running in-person workshops would not be possible for the foreseeable future, the XDI team, which I am a part of, started to work on online versions of our Adobe XD workshops for beginners and advanced users. The resulting workshops are...
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• Matthias Ott
How I Structure My CSS (for Now)
When it comes to structuring CSS, there is no shortage of different naming conventions, methodologies, and architectures. Be it BEM, OOCSS, SMACSS, ITCSS, or CUBE CSS – over the last years, many different approaches to managing modular CSS have emerged. Some are offering str...