Heading home after three incredible days full of inspiration and of meeting good friends and making so many new ones at @smashingconf. Thank you so much for the smashing time and have a safe trip back home, everyone! 🤗💚🎈
Finally put the next date up for the Homebrew Website Club meetup. Happening in two weeks on 23.09.2025.
30 collaborative things you can do on the web
In 100 things you can do on your personal website, I shared ideas for what you can do with your website. Most of them were ideas that can be worked on yourself. With that said, I find myself increasingly delighted by the collaborative spirit of the web.
Indeed, one of the w...
Whimsy
Sometimes you need to make a web page about an air fryer. At least, this was the intution underlying my musing Maybe I should start an air fryer blog. in a Discord of which I am a member. It all started with a discussion about dinner and then website talk ensued.
With my di...
The closing talk at #smashingconf: The fearless @cassiecodes live-coding a game with canvas and GSAP 🤩👏
Really enjoyed @reichenstein’s thoughtful and entertaining talk at #smashingconf today! Amazing to see how philosophical ideas influenced the design of iA’s apps and what designers can and could learn from philosophy – and vice versa. A lot of food for thought!
And now, @matuzo teaching us old dogs new CSS tricks at #smashingconf 🦮 – including magic!🤩🪄
“Start ‘vibe testing’ your website on budget devices.”
@scottjehl, delivering for performance at #smashingconf 💯💯💯💯
Gemma O‘Brien kicking off day two of #smashingconf Freiburg with an inspiring talk about her beautiful and powerful lettering and art work – and a super interesting interview about flow state. 👏
Thanks for coming to my talk at @smashingconf, everyone! It was a joy and an honour to be invited – and I hope it was valuable! 🤗💚 Here are the slides: https://noti.st/matthiasott/ZXgFeg #smashingconf
You’ll find me at the venue today, in case you have any questions. Enjoy day two! 🎉
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That’s why you always need a bit of “DB wiggle room” 😉
Off to Freiburg for @smashingconf! 🚄🤩🎉 See you soon! 🤗
It’s still a bit buggy and some things aren’t working properly, I suppose. And I also can’t wait to improve it and add more stuff to it now…
But hey: it’s alive!
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Und los geht’s mit dem großen Rasenmäher-Härtetest nach dem Urlaub à la @spielundzeug. Allerdings nicht mit einem Roboter, sondern mit Gardenas kleinstem Akku-Mäher – wie so ein Neandertaler!!😁
There aren’t many albums that actually *the whole family* enjoys and everyone is humming along on a Saturday morning.
The New Abnormal by The Strokes is one of them. 🥁🎸😙🎶
@matuzo By the way: will @zachleat be at @smashingconf next week, too? 🖼️😁
“My talk for SmashingConf is still a bit too long. What should I cut?“
8-y/o: “Not the part with the large machine! That’s cool.“
(She’s talking about the Large Haydon Collider, of course. 😊)
Alright, so … websites! ✨