I removed pagination from a few index pages. Because: who needs pagination when you have compact index pages and all images are lazy loaded? Right: no one! Kinda fixes static page search, too.
Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
🎧 Paranoid – Black Sabbath
I never listened to this album. But because it’s such a classic, I know pretty much every song on here. And I’m enjoying it!
And if the end lead riff of “Fairies Wear Boots” was not a major influence for Metallica’s “For Whom The Bell Tolls” I’ll eat my hat!
🎬 Barn (Beware of Children)
This was a slow movie and more like a psychological and/or social study than about the plot itself.
Relationships, feelings and emotions can be complex and the movie intelligently communicated this. And are so-called grown-ups really that for off in their behaviour from children?
Gradient Multiline Padded Text
For whatever reason a question from Dan Mall from 2018 popped up in my timeline where he was asking how to create multiline padded text with a consistent gradient background in CSS:
CSS superfriends! Have you seen examples of how to do multi-line padded text like this artic...
🎬 Deerskin
I expected nonsense. But not like this. I didn’t get it.
On leaving out the alt Attribute
As it seems I'm currently looking at my Twitter timeline way too often. Because this time it was a tweet from Šime Vidas that caught my attention:
Do I need alt text if there’s a visible image description?<figure> <img src="x.jpg" width="900" height="600" alt="">...
Ich habe heute Die Ente gemalt.
📄 Updated pedalboard
I bought more pedals. And so I needed a bigger board, to be able to fit them all. Here’s what it looks like now:
🎬 Suspiria (2018)
Although this is not a remake, I think I enjoyed the “original” more.
This rendition certainly had a much better production and much better acting. And it wasn’t bad at all. And I very much enjoyed the Berlin set. But I found the side-plots somewhat irrelevant and the main story confusing. Or maybe it was just too late in the day, yesterday night.
So, it was a good movie, but I wasn’t 100% convinced.
🎧 Esoteric Malacology – Slugdge
Does this bring anything new to the table? I don’t think so. But it’s very well done. It has some fantastic guitar work, blast beats, and great vocals. Winner!
🎬 Druk (Another Round)
Four school teachers wanted to try a philosopher’s theory that humans generally have 0.05% too little blood alcohol. So they started drinking.
This is funny, has drama, and wonderful acting. Highly recommended!
Fixing Smooth Scrolling & Page Search (updated!)
Yesterday, as I was browsing my Twitter timeline, a tweet from Chris Coyier popped up, in which he mentioned feedback he got for one of his CSS Tricks experiments. It went as follows:
Anecdotal thing: when I had this on @CSS, I had SO MANY reports of people annoyed that whe...
🎧 Sagor – Skraeckoedlan
Enjoying some good Swedish riff-rock. Can’t stop listening to that “El Monstro”-riff.
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Doomsday
Hip-hop has lost one of its finest artists to ever touch the mic and an MPC. Daniel Dumile, better known by his stage name MF DOOM, passed away on October 31, 2020, at the age of 49.
Dumile, who performed in a metal face mask, was a child of the Golden Era and a master of hi...
Oh FFS! Instagram now requires you to have an account to view anything on their website. You can no longer visit profiles of people or businesses let alone permalink pages.
I hope Instagram will revert this. Or everybody will just stop posting exclusively on that stupid platform (yeah, right!)!
Frustrating nonsense!
🎬 A Rainy Day in New York
Nicole “warned” me that critics didn’t like this movie much.
I disagree. I found this to be a clever, funny and overall very entertaining story.
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Bye, 2020!
So, that was 2020. First of all, I hope that you and your loved-ones are well, that you had something to do this year that brought you fulfillment and a sense of purpose, and that you haven’t been affected too heavily by COVID-19 and the lockdowns that were both financially ...
🎧 I – Conjurer
Currently listening to this EP quite a bit. Some great tremolo-picking melodies. And a great vocalist duo. Much heavy! Much good!
📄 Donations 2020
Here are the charities I donated money to at the end of this year:
🎬 Suspiria
Another classic. For good reason.
Amazing set. Great atmosphere. Well done – and indeed gory – murder scenes. The end scene was great. Very much enjoyed the soundtrack. On the other hand, acting and dialogs were lacking. But that’s alright. I would recommend this, if one is into horror movies and hasn’t seen this, yet.