Just realised that after relaunching my personal site last month, the Webmentions stopped working … 🤔 #brb
Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
Matthias Ott
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European Tech Alternatives 🇪🇺
For a European with lots of friends and like-minded web folks in the US, it is both heartbreaking and bewildering to see how the political and societal climate in the country is changing right now. All of this is not only worrisome from a political perspective, but also pose...
✍️ New post: European Tech Alternatives 🇪🇺
#blogtober #tech #software #europe
https://matthiasott.com/notes/european-tech-alternatives
I somehow get the feeling that we will soon feel very lucky to have an open, European social network with Mastodon.
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Tweaking the Circuits
When the people at EMI ordered a bunch of Altec 436B compressors in the late 1950s for Abbey Road Studios, they were hoping for that legendary American sound they had heard at their sister studio Capitol Records in Los Angeles. But when the units arrived in London and the en...
✍️ New post: Tweaking the Circuits
#blogtober #web #design #engineering #audio #history
https://matthiasott.com/notes/tweaking-the-circuits
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Age Quod Agis
Age quod agis. This Latin phrase, attributed to Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit Order, translates to “do what you are doing.”
Do what you are doing. Like in: dedicate yourself wholeheartedly to whatever you engage in. Do what you are doing. Not the thing over ...
When your website makes you smile
For most days of the year, the name of my website – James’ Coffee Blog – is followed by a coffee cup emoji. But, on some days, the coffee cup emoji changes. I have a calendar of events for which the emoji changes, including International Day of Peace (September 21st), Burns N...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Blogtober 2025 - Day 1
It’s Blogtober again. And this time, I’ve (more or less spontaneously) decided to take part in it. For those of you who don’t know what it is: Blogtober is a writing challenge that takes part every Oktober (similar to Bloguary, Blobuary, Blarch, Blapril, Blay, Blune, Bluly, ...
✍️ New post: Blogtober 2025 – Day 1
This will be fun! 🎉🤩
#blogtober #writing #blogging #websites
Oh! Is it #blogtober already? 😅
Started sorting a few audio plugins into a voice chain – and ended up sorting compressors by hardware topology/type and year … 🫣 But at least I’m learning a lot about the different types of compression, right…right? 😅
Saying thanks on the web
One of the things I love most about blogging is that you can write about an explore an idea as it forms, without necessarily having a specific resolution or end state in mind. With that in mind, I wanted to document a line of thinking that has been on my mind for the last wee...
It was foggy AF this morning.
“as fog” 🤓
Wait! I recognize that guy! That’s the runner from the Sound City Studios documentary.
Looks like he ended up as a producer for the Foo Fighters, Deftones, and some band called “Rush”.
Yet another amazing interview by Rick Beato:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQognzPVOIo