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🎬 Bibi & Tina: Bewildered and Bewitched
Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
🎬 Bibi & Tina: Girls vs. Boys
Dekadent bereits am Morgen geguckt. Mit Popcorn. Es war super!
🎬 The American Friend
Loved the pictures in this film. Everything's so beautiful and moody. I have never seen Bruno Ganz younger than here, I believe. And he and Dennis Hopper are simply fantastic (and the support cast, too). At first I thought the plot could've been a bit more tightened up, but honestly, I think it's really fits the movie and its characters. And it's certainly entertaining and also quite funny how clumsy they are at times.
✍️ New post: That’s My Rank
#blogtober #interop #platform #web
https://matthiasott.com/notes/thats-my-rank
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That’s My Rank
Have you ever wondered why new CSS features and other web technologies very often seem to just work across browsers these days? The reason is probably: Interop.
The Interop Project is a collaborative effort between major browser makers — Apple, Bocoup, Google, Igalia, Micro...
Visiting the Wedding of the Water
The Delaware River begins as two branches, before converging into the main river and continuing 282 miles to Delaware Bay.
The West Branch begins in Schoharie County and flows down into Delaware County, passing the Cannonsville Reservoir before paralleling Route 17. The East Branch runs from Delaware County through the Pepacton Reservoir before convergence.
The “Wedding of the Water”, the convergence of the east and west branches of the Delaware River is near Hancock, NY.
The closest view that is easily accessible by car is the New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservations Junction Pool…which is a small area with picnic tables popular with fly fisherman because of its relatively safe position to wade into the river.
In fact, I saw several people doing just that.
“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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• Matthias Ott
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 ...
✍️ New post: Making Space
#blogtober #music #mixing #design #creativity
https://matthiasott.com/notes/making-space
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
Elternabend.
✍️ 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
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
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...
“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
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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...
✍️ 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
✍️ New post: Jane Goodall’s Famous Last Words
#blogtober #interview #janegoodall #climateaction #nature
https://matthiasott.com/notes/jane-goodalls-famous-last-words
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
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:...
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. 🤓
…… 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. 🤔