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Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Design and the 80/20 Principle

Over 120 years ago, an Italian engineer, sociologist, economist, and philosopher named Vilfredo Pareto made an astonishing discovery. He was looking at the distribution of land in Italy, when he observed that approximately 80 % of the land was owned by only 20 % of the popul...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

CSS Custom Properties With @property

Una Kravets has written an excellent article about a feature that has been released with Chrome 85: The @property syntax of the Properties and Values API. The Properties and Values API is part of CSS Houdini, the next generation of additions to CSS allowing developers to ext...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

AVIF: A New Image Format

It doesn’t happen every day that a new image format comes along. So it’s not surprising that people are excited that Chrome 85 has been released with support for the new AVIF format. AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) is an open image format based on the AV1 video format that was ...

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🎬 Queen & Slim

Movie poster for “Queen & Slim”.

A first date takes a fateful turn when a racist cop stops the two for a minor traffic violation. The cop ends up dead. They flee, and a days-long chase through the US ensues.

This film is very much fitting regarding the current #blacklivesmatter movement. It showcases on a few occasions how black people feel about the police; and how one might react when the police is rather considered an enemy than a friend.

It’s also a film about loneliness, companionship, trust and love.

Thumbs up!

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🎬 Wrong

Movie poster for “Wrong”.

An absurd film. And pretty funny. Music and sounds are ace. I liked the visuals, too, because the rendition of the used lens(es) looked pretty “classic” to me – and I like “classic”. Apparently the writer/director Quentin Dupieux has some sort of cult status. I didn’t know him until this.

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Your Brain Is Plastic

Martha Curtis had a dream. She wanted to become a violinist. She had been playing the violin since she was nine and excelled at it. But there was a problem. A huge problem. Martha had begun suffering from seizures at age three and a half. She was diagnosed with epilepsy and ...

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🎬 Lost Highway

Movie poster for “Lost Highway”.

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.

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

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...

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I bought my first bass guitar: an Epiphone Thunderbird. Should have done this earlier, because it’s so much fun!

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🎬 Night on Earth

Movie poster for “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!

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🎬 Blue Ruin

Movie poster for “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!

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🎬 The Invisible Man

Movie poster for “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.

Matthias Ott
• 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...

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📖 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...

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📖 Die Bagage – Monika Helfer

Book cover of “Die Bagage” by 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.