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✍️ New post: To Affin­i­ty and Beyond

#blogtober #design #tools #affinity
https://matthiasott.com/notes/to-affinity-and-beyond

If there is one thing that I’ve learned in my roughly 30 years of working with design tools, it is that they come and go and that you should always stay curious and be open and ready to learn something new. As a teenager, I made my first clip-arty design attempts in CorelDRA...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP_TBaKODlw

Oooh! New Aesop Rock dropped … again?!? Yesterday already…… 🤤🤩🎧
https://pitchfork.com/news/aesop-rock-drops-new-album-i-heard-its-a-mess-there-too-listen/

Numerous #w3cTPAC breakout sessions have been proposed. * https://github.com/w3c/tpac2025-breakouts/issues/?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20sort%3Acreated-ascIf you plan to participate in TPAC breakouts, whether in-person or remote, take a look and give the ones that look interesting to you thumbs-up 👍, heart ❤️, or rocket 🚀 reactions.For more information about TPAC 2025 Breakout sessions and how they work, see: * https://github.com/w3c/tpac2025-breakouts

Saturday was my 20th #Wikipedia editing anniversary.I have created:* over 25 content articles (that have survived), averaging just over 1 per year* over 100 redirects to make it easier to find pages, and to find topics which are only documented as sections of existing pages.T...

… speaking of badges (Wikipedia User: 20 year editor badge in my previous post) …I got the #Hacktoberfest 2025: Level 0 Registered badge from Hacktoberfest @hacktoberfest @digitalocean! https://www.holopin.io/hacktoberfest2025/userbadge/cmhas5f6h003bje041kcld1is via @holopin_

✍️ New post: The Mys­tery of Storytelling

#blogtober #stories #storytelling #writing #process
https://matthiasott.com/notes/the-mystery-of-storytelling

Humans love stories. Maybe that is because for thousands of years, stories were the way information was preserved and passed on to others, to the next generations. Maybe because they create community and collective culture. Maybe because they capture our imagination and spea...

Spent the whole afternoon calculating a quite complex project proposal … AMA! 🤪
(At least the music was good – and it’s satisfying to reach that moment when it looks more or less complete 😅)

Really enjoying the latest Wolf Alice album at the moment. Beautiful production and mixing as well. Just really good music overall! 👏😊
https://album.link/s/2kKc3Yid0YR3SSbeQ3x5kV

I have to confess that I am not reading that many books these days. Most of the time, I resort to listening to them in audio form. But every once in a while, a book comes along that is just too interesting not to at least give it a try. Reading Kai Brach’s excellent newslett...

✍️ New post: Amateurs!

#blogtober #books #web #internet #culture
https://matthiasott.com/notes/amateurs

A recording of Alors on danse, news of a new exhibition of Michelangelo’s work, an event on creative writing, and information about art history courses all exist side-by-side in the ever-changing landscape that is my browser tabs. Every one is a train of thought: the tabs on ...

Every so often, I open up a blank HTML document and work on a concept design for my website. Sometimes I have a theme, like my blueprint-inspired design, whereas other times I play around and see what I can make. Today I thought: what would my blog look like if it were pink? I came up with this concept design: A two-column layout for my website that has a light pink background colour and darker pink text. The typeface is a serif font. I use the "Transitional" font stack from Modern Font Stacks, and a combination of pink and purple colours that I made through trial-and-error with an RGB colour wheel. The background is light pink. The text colours are a darker pink that is somewhat close to red. I am unsure whether I will use this design on my blog, but I had fun playing around and exploring this direction for a bit.

Back to the Future meets Scream. This was quite silly, but also quite enjoyable. Just the right thing to chill on the couch and relax after a long day.

Also, oberflächlich eigentlich wieder ganz gute Unterhaltung. Aber das Thema selbst fand ich doch einfach eine sehr sehr seltsame Wahl für diese Filmreihe. Und die Klischees, die die Charaktere bedienen waren schon zum Augen rollen und "Echt jetzt!??" denken.

✍️ New post – in reply to @adactio:
Echoes of Connection

#blogtober #web #indieweb #webmentions #websites
https://matthiasott.com/notes/echoes-of-connection

In 1977, NASA launched two spaceships carrying two golden records into the void of interstellar space. The Voyager Golden Records contained instructions for playing its contents, finding Earth in the cosmos (oh my …), as well as images, a variety of natural sounds, musical s...

✍️ New post: Linear() Is Not Linear

#blogtober #CSS #animations #easing #linear
https://matthiasott.com/notes/linear-is-not-linear