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Wow, 26 students signed up for my Interface Prototyping seminar this semester, starting tomorrow. Let’s see if it will actually be that crowded… 😅 Looking forward to it! 😊

@nice2meatu Wow! Glückwunsch!!!🙌🎉

Chrome 148 shipped this week, and in the release notes you’ll find one of the best things to happen to web performance in a long time: loading="lazy" for <video> and <audio> elements. Scott Jehl, tech lead of Squarespace’s Perfo...

Added my two cents …

✍️ New post: Lazy and Prompt

https://matthiasott.com/notes/lazy-and-prompt

✍️ New post: Lazy and Prompt

The story of Chrome 148 could have been about @scottjehl’s amazing lazy loading for video and audio 👏 – until Google decided to shove the Prompt API down our throats.

https://matthiasott.com/notes/lazy-and-prompt

It’s like walking into your favourite restaurant, handing the chef a can of ravioli, and asking them to please put it on a plate. Maybe warm it up a little!

What really concerns me is the obvious assumption that such a sketch is the final product. That because something renders in a browser, it must be ready for production. That ”design” and ”code” are solved problems that any layman can do now, and the rest is implementation you can do with an iframe.

A “final HTML script our colleagues have developed – put it in an iframe maybe?“ That thing is full of security, performance, and privacy issues, >2500 lines of unfinished code, inlined CSS & JavaScript, not accessible, of course. But to the client, it looks fine. They don’t see the difference.

Honestly, as a professional who has spent their entire career working on the web, honing their skills, learning design, coding, best practices, and the intricacies of the web platform, it kind of sucks to get sent a Claude Design prototype by a client with the ask to implement it right away.

This post was written first with my screenless writing interface, and then edited in Ghost, which I use to publish blog posts to this website. The extent of my edits were fixing typos and reworking the introduction and conclusion a little bit. My original concern when brains...

This text below post is presented verbatim, as it was typed with only a keyboard: without a display or any assistive technology. Typos are left in. The "Notes after writing" and "My writing setup" sections were typed on my Mac as I prepared to publish the post. This is my fi...

The final movement of Beethoven’s piano sonata No. 32 – his very last – is one of the most beautiful and divine pieces of music ever written. Just incredible. And @igorpianist’s interpretation is simply beyond anything you’ll ever hear. 🖤 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfm-IXEZiKI&list=PL1IXBSY4jc2tE5w8zZ_Pwf10vO3a5zuCT&index=102

Every so often I have an idea for a feature that might be interesting in a web reader. I write down my ideas in my notes. Sometimes, an idea makes its way into Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain. Other times, the idea stays in my notes where it can breathe, mature, and m...

“No web standard should require you to agree to an advertising company’s ‘terms of use.’”
Yes, yes, yes!💯

“So, in short: you now have an LLM running on your machine, and any website you visit can make use of it, and whatever processing resources it requires.”

The definitive piece on Google participating in the web standards process “the way a bear participates in the ‘camping’ process.”,
by @Wilto👏

https://wil.to/posts/googles-prompt-api/

I have been working on a few new features for Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain. You can read a summary of what’s new below. See, sort, rename, and delete folders You can now view a list of the folders you have created, specify in what order folders should appear in you...

In my last two blog posts, I discussed how I use greyscale mode on my phone and night shift on my computer. These blog posts were inspired by discussions happening in the IndieWeb community about greyscale, and now, more generally, how we use our phones. My phone, an iPhone,...

I think I found a name for it.

Artificial Style Sheets.

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You might know that I – with the generous help from Brandon Kelly on the Craft 5 version – wrote and maintain a Webmention plugin for Craft CMS. Today, I shipped version 1.3.0. It’s a security and abuse hardening release, and if you’re running the plugin, you should upgrade....

✍️ 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