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Feeds from people participating at the IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, May 2025.
Evening tea
For the last few weeks I have been making a cup of decaf tea in the late evening, almost as part of a wind-down ritual for the day.
While I was making a cup this evening, I heard birds singing. I felt the warmth from the tea in my hands and the warmth of the bird song in my...
Growing with my website
At this evening’s Homebrew Website Club, I asked: What was the biggest change in our websites since we started them? This question was inspired in part by Paul saying something to the effect of how we build our websites and, in the process, figure out what we want our website...
07.05.2026
06.05.2026
Walking
Something different catches my eye, my ear – all my senses – on every walk. I walk through streams of thoughts and feelings and sensations. Today, what first caught my eye was a bird perched on a tree along a path lined with trees and bushes. The song of the bird eased me int...
Announcing Wonders of Web Weaving
If you have ever spoken to me, you may have heard me express a meandering interest in doing something with audio. I think the heart of this interest is that I love conversations and storytelling. I love hearing people talk about the things that make them light up. I love aski...
05.05.2026
Experimenting with a self-hosted mailing list today. It has been on my to-do list for a while to get a basic version going, although I wonder if anyone would prefer email digests.
Serendipity
The steam of the espresso machine — of focusing in the milk to make sure it is just right, of tapping to remove the bubbles, of preparing. Soft instrumental music plays in the background, more upbeat than the music to which I was listening earlier — easing me more into the da...
04.05.2026
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!!!🙌🎉
Matthias Ott
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Lazy and Prompt
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...
✍️ 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.
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.