✍️ New post: Design and Engineering, As One
A #longread about a man with a stopwatch, a school in Weimar, and why the gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident.
https://matthiasott.com/articles/design-and-engineering-as-one
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Matthias Ott
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Design and Engineering, As One
In the winter of 1898, a mechanical engineer named Frederick Winslow Taylor arrived at the Bethlehem Steel Company in Pennsylvania with a stopwatch and a conviction. Taylor had been thinking for years about why industrial work was so inefficient, and he believed he had found...
🎬 Eddington
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This is very well made and played. But in the end there was just no real story. I was close to switching this off after the first hour, during which I thought "I don't think I need a film about people in the US arguing over Covid policy and BLM stuff". It picks up speed after this, and you think "now here's what it's about", but then to be disappointed - because: no, it's not (and this happens multiple times). Nothing ever seems to really matter. Except - seemingly - the opening of that data centre, which is the second to last scene. But then, the film's too long IMHO. I don't know. But, yeah, it looks great and has fabulous acting.
🎬 The Menu
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This was an entertaining film! Performances are great. It's funny and absurd. How it's made reminded me of Ari Aster movies. And it seemed to me like they made a whole movie out of that dialogue Nic Cage has with the fine dining chef in Pig. Anyway. What makes it miss a recommendation, is maybe that I found it too serious at times and the lack of fleshing out all those guest characters more. And the arguments with which she escapes are kind of a cliché. But man, that burger looked tasty! And how she enjoys it on the boat when all the others explode was actually a good ending IMHO.
12.04.2026
11.04.2026
January 2026
Lot's of snow. Shooting digitally again. Bouldering. Band rehearsals. (40 photos)
NASA Artemis II live stream update:Spaceflight Now has the raw feed of Houston and Integrity comms and video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8m9YdxgJ5g The official NASA live stream (posted previously), has switched to a NASA spokesperson and interviews of folks on the sea/ground as part of splashdown recovery operations.Choose your live stream:* Houston, space, and astronauts talking: https://youtu.be/M8m9YdxgJ5g * Spokespeople/interviews talking: https://youtu.be/m3kR2KK8TEs or pull them both up on separate side-by-side monitors like they have on the desks at Mission Control.About an hour left til splashdown!#NASA #liveStream #Artemis #Artemis #Artemis2 #ArtemisII #Integrity #Earth #Houston #MissionControl #SpaceflightNow
What I’m watching for the next 3 hours:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs #NASA #liveStream #Artemis #Artemis #Artemis2 #ArtemisII #Earth
10.04.2026
09.04.2026
🎬 Only Lovers Left Alive
Love the music, love the set and costumes, the pretty night shots, the characters, the dialogue, the humour. A pretty perfect movie!
👍 Recommended!
08.04.2026
14-year-old today: “The option of me becoming a classic coder, one who writes everything by hand, probably doesn't exist anymore, does it? Too bad, it was actually fun.”
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Music, story(ies)
I was inspired by, of all things, a video monologue by a Scottish surfer [1] who said that the future for them was challenging themselves in new ways. My guitar was close by and I thought maybe I should give myself a bit of a challenge too. I picked up my guitar and looked up...
07.04.2026
Your AI-generated videos of the Moon sure look impressive. But nothing compares to the real Artemis II footage – they’re almost there 😯:
📄 Automating Sending WebSub Requests from a Static Site
How I automatically send WebSub requests from a GitLab build pipeline for my static sites.
Filed my 2025 taxes today (electronically). Payments mailed (physically).Earliest in at least a decade, maybe two.Took a very conscious and deliberate effort to get here. Prioritizing, cutting or postponing anything non-urgent, iterating and improving systems year over year (especially in coordination with an accountant), collecting clustering materials earlier, and more.Completing these kinds of "required" tasks/projects sooner feels like it frees up mental (and emotional) bandwidth (not having them occupying daily thoughts) to dream, brainstorm, and make more creative things.
06.04.2026
