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Matthias Ott Valid

“Honestly, I feel like web developers are constantly being gaslit into thinking that complex over-engineered solutions are the only option. When the discourse is being dominated by people invested in frameworks and libraries, all our default thinking will involve frameworks and libraries. That’s not good for users, and I don’t think it’s good for us either.”

Mic drop by @adactio 👏
https://adactio.com/journal/22178

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Making Space

Gregory Scott, founder of Kush Audio, shared an interesting insight about mixing music the other day: Sometimes, to bring something forward in the mix, instead of turning it up, it can be more effective to actually turn all the other things down. Let’s say you realise that ...

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✍️ New post: Making Space

#blogtober #music #mixing #design #creativity
https://matthiasott.com/notes/making-space

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Beautiful new release by Philipp Neumeyer and TypeMates:
Yuni Grotesque 😍

Next TDC Award incoming … 😉

#typefaces #fonts #type #design
https://www.typemates.com/fonts/yuni-grotesque

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Elternabend.

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✍️ New post: CSS :is() :where() the Magic Happens
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#blogtober #css #css #css
https://matthiasott.com/notes/css-is-where-the-magic-happens

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CSS :is() :where() the Magic Happens

For Blogtober, I dug up a draft about the two CSS pseudo-class functions :is() and :where() that I’d had lying around in my drafts folder for quite some time. Actually, when I originally started writing this post, :is() and :where() had just landed in CSS, and — just like wi...

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“The fact that copyrighted works aren’t eligible unless they’ve formally registered feels like a lawyerly dodge: a legal maneuver to help Anthropic reduce the size of its payout pool, and thereby keeping the company from getting rendered down into its component parts during bankruptcy proceedings.”
— @beep

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-right-to-copy/

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Visual Regression Testing for External URLs With Playwright

We’ve all been there: You write a bit of CSS, check whether everything looks right. You deploy. Then someone sends you a screenshot: the mobile navigation is broken. And why is the size of those headings just a bit off? And where has that button gone? Especially when you are...

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✍️ New post: Visu­al Regres­sion Testing for Exter­nal URLs With Playwright

#blogtober #webdev #css #testing #playwright
https://matthiasott.com/notes/visual-regression-testing-for-external-urls-with-playwright

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✍️ New post: Jane Goodall’s Famous Last Words

#blogtober #interview #janegoodall #climateaction #nature
https://matthiasott.com/notes/jane-goodalls-famous-last-words

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Jane Goodall’s Famous Last Words

Jane Goodall, the scientist, conservationist, and educator who died last Wednesday at 91, will always be remembered for her singular, field-defining work on wild chimpanzees. She lived with wild chimpanzees to study them, befriended them, and made a groundbreaking discovery:...

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In case you missed my post from day 3 of #blogtober: It’s about a legendary piece of gear that shaped the sound of Abbey Road studios – and what it all has to do with building for the #Web. 🤓

https://matthiasott.com/notes/tweaking-the-circuits

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…… aaand we’re back. The “human-friendly” #webmention endpoint returned a 302 instead of a 202 for *all* http requests. Now it distinguishes between general requests and those coming from an HTML form. Still not sure whether this is the best solution, but it works for now. 🤔

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Just realised that after relaunching my personal site last month, the Webmentions stopped working … 🤔 #brb

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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...

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✍️ New post: Euro­pean Tech Alternatives 🇪🇺

#blogtober #tech #software #europe
https://matthiasott.com/notes/european-tech-alternatives

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I somehow get the feeling that we will soon feel very lucky to have an open, European social network with Mastodon.

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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...

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✍️ New post: Tweaking the Circuits

#blogtober #web #design #engineering #audio #history
https://matthiasott.com/notes/tweaking-the-circuits