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In The joy of incremental website improvements, I reflected on the idea of building personal websites incrementally: Making incremental improvements to one's personal website is a joy. Your site can evolve at your own pace, and as you learn. You don't need to set out with a g...

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More examples of graduating between mediums of communication

In “Graduating between mediums of communication”, I explored how we can move between mediums of communication to access different affordances. For example, you might “graduate” from a text chat – for example, a Slack thread – to a video conference in a professional context. T...

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Using my edit button shortcut

In 2025 I built a browser extension that adds an edit button to your browser. The edit button pages if a page either has: A rel=edit link;A custom edit link set in the extension preferences, or;A link with an anchor like “edit page” (only available if you enable the setting, ...

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Only like 6-7 minutes left! 🚀

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So “Matt” and “Matt” from Cloudflare used their AI coding agents to slopfork WordPress? Really? 🤔🧐

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How software feels

I am interested in how software feels to use. Back in 2024, I wrote: I want to learn about design, I thought to myself, excitedly. I was interested in why some things feel better to use than others – why do some tools feel like a delight, while others feel rough around the ed...

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I learned in design school in Germany that of course, the percent symbol is separated from the number with a space. B...

I learned in design school in Germany that of course, the percent symbol is separated from the number with a space. Because you could also write 100 Prozent. You also don’t write 100cm without a space, right?

And the careful typographer will make a Jan Tschichold gesture and decrease the space slightly …

But obviously, things are different in written English.

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That’s going to be … interesting 😂

That’s going to be … interesting 😂

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Typography nerds, I need your opinion! (And help 🙏)
Channeling your inner Robert Bringhurst – how would you write a percentage in English correctly?

100 % – with a space, because % is a unit
100% – who needs a weird space here?
100 % – with a thin space, don't half-ass it!
Honestly, who cares, really…

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This, Still Not for Everyone

The new WebAIM Million report is out, the eighth annual accessibility analysis of the top one million home pages on the Web. And after eight years of data, the picture is as sobering as ever. In 2019, 97.8% of home pages had detectable WCAG conformance failures. In 2026, tha...

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✍️ New post: This, Still Not for Everyone

A few thoughts on the new WebAIM million report. And why we will only improve #accessibility on the Web together.

https://matthiasott.com/notes/this-still-not-for-everyone

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Seven hills

This post is my contribution to the April 2026 IndieWeb Carnival on the topic of “Adventure”. Thank you for hosting, Pablo! The Seven Hills of Edinburgh challenge invites participants to hike up seven designated hills in Edinburgh within a day. There are official events to p...

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My favourite (unconventional) animal

This is my entry to the April 2026 Grizzly Gazette Carnival on the topic “Your favourite unconventional animal". My favourite animals are cats, undoubtedly [1] [2]. This month’s Grizzly Gazette Carnival invites participants to think beyond cats, however, to “unconventional” ...

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Nesting social posts under blog posts in Artemis

In Grouping link posts in a web reader, I described a feature in Artemis to show when someone whose website you are following has bookmarked a post by an author you also follow. The motivation for this feature was to reduce clutter in a user’s reader by grouping shares of a p...

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Museum Memories: Roundup

This month I had the pleasure of hosting the March 2026 IndieWeb Carnival on the topic of “Museum memories”, in which I invited participants to write about a memory of a museum. To everyone who participated – we had over 30 participants this month! – thank you. It was a delig...

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30.03.2026

A man playing a King V with tribals.
Back in the day, when Laurenz was still in Slayer.

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Quick reminder, especially if you’re a freelancer or developer using Free/Pro/Pro+ plans for client work: Opt out of ...

Quick reminder, especially if you’re a freelancer or developer using Free/Pro/Pro+ plans for client work: Opt out of GitHub using your data for AI model training before April 24 (seriously, wtf that this isn’t opt-in!).
https://github.com/settings/copilot/features#copilot-telemetry-policy

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29.03.2026

A person getting a beer from a bag hung outside a window.
Daring outside fridge.

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28.03.2026

The two guitarist of Resurrected live on stage.
Resurrected live @ Sojus7 Monheim

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Inventor, dreaming

This week I joined a session at school on the topic of career planning. I had an hour of time to work through a series of questions designed to help me make progress on a goal. The goal I chose for the session was to think about my career goals. What do I want to do in my car...