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✍️ New post: Buckle Up

I recently added a “Failed Webmentions” view to my Craft CMS #Webmention plugin. Opened it before #IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf and found line after line of automated probing. Just shipped v1.3.0 to deal with it and wrote a bit about it:

https://matthiasott.com/notes/buckle-up

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The client is now sending their own CSS.

Clauded Style Sheets.

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#Webmention for Craft v1.3.0 is out 🎉 – first in a short series of #security releases. 🔒

Fixes a stored XSS vulnerability in author/entry URLs, adds per-IP rate limits, and failure-backoff to harden the public endpoint against abuse.

Upgrade recommended!

https://github.com/matthiasott/webmention/releases/tag/v1.3.0

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Citrus Club on Haight Street has closed for good. :(I walked by earlier this evening to order some takeout and all the signage was gone and a large metal gate was lowered.A notice of application for ownership change was posted including a license for “On sale beer & wine ...

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May the Focus Be With You!

Last weekend at IndieWebCamp I noticed James had setup his iPhone in grayscale. I think I first saw that on Jeremy’s phone years ago. I remember trying it on my iPod Touch for a while, eventually switching back to see color photos. This morning while chatting with Jam...

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… and speaking of free compressors: Analog Obsession just released a Fairchild.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/muchild-157419821

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🤫 Psst, if you’re into #audio #plugins – and have heard about the all-buttons-in mode of the 1176 – Pulsar’s Smasher is free at the moment:

https://pulsar.audio/smasher-free/

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Night shift

Writing my post on how I use my phone in grayscale yesterday got me thinking about other customisations I make to the computing devices I use. The first one that came to mind is that I keep my laptop, and by extension my external display when I am using it, in night shift mo...

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03.05.2026

A b&w photo of highrise building in front of a cloudless sky.
GAP 15

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Using greyscale

Back in 2023 I challenged myself to use my phone in greyscale mode for a week. The experiment was successful: a week later, I was still using my phone in greyscale mode. At some point afterwards, I did disable greyscale mode. But last year, or early this year (I can't rememb...

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Quotes from Tufte’s course

I took Edward Tufte’s online course on analysing and presenting data. It lasted four hours and was a mixture of reading from his books and listening to lecture material. The course was terrific and I learned so much. As I was taking the course, I took down a few quotes that ...

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Just released v1.4.0 of my Eleventy Plus Vite starter! 🎉 It is now running Eleventy 3.1.5 and Vite 8. A good moment to dust it off now that @11ty becomes even more (Build) Awesome. 🏃💨
https://github.com/matthiasott/eleventy-plus-vite

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"web joy" — the joy you experience when visiting a website with joyful content and/or have a joyful experience (as a user) on a website, or the joy of creating such a website.During the beyond tellerand conference this past week, someone mentioned “responsive web design” and ...

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4 conferences across 3 cities in 10 days:* 4/20 W3C AC Meeting (Huangzhou) “Challenging how we see the web” future of web browsers panel participant (remotely from San Francisco, on the evening of 2026-04-19)* 4/21-23 Mozilla Leadership Summit (Boston)* 4/25-26 IndieWebCamp D...

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02.05.2026

A ad column with poster for live gigs and a house in the background.
Playing with Forkalyst at Haus Spilles in Düsseldorf Benrath.

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01.05.2026

Two Neapolitan pizzas on a round table. A child slicing their pizza.
It was pizza Friday again.

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Seasons

My first thought was the field of pink petals. Day by day, petals fall from the tree as green leaves grow from the blossom. I wonder for how long the petals will keep falling. There seem to be a million dots of pink in spring, from which there is a new perspective to see eve...

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#CSS song of the day:
Flexorcist by The Voidz

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Day; night

The day holds onto the light for as long as it can. The warm glow of the horizon reminds me of all of the bright adventures of the day, and makes me wonder “what will I do tomorrow?”. I can see the first star, which means that night will soon be here; the time for rest, processing, and preparing to imagine tomorrow.

(Written a few days ago, and published on a rainy evening where the memories of the sunset on a clear evening warm my heart.)

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My words, not my content

Every so often I think about the word “content.” It’s not my favourite word. Content feels relatively flat compared to the things to which it can refer. I have been meaning to write about my preference for something else for a while: I prefer to say “my words” or “my storie...