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Matthias Ott
31 Oct 2020 • Matthias Ott

Painting With the Web

Have you ever seen Gerhard ...

Daniel Pietzsch
30 Oct 2020

🔗 November 2019 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal

photojournal.danielpietzsch.com/2019/November

I shall not fall behind more than one year! My photo selection for November 2019.

First photos with my new Rollei 35 S. A concert. A demonstration. And everything in between.

Matthias Ott
10 Oct 2020 • Matthias Ott

One of the most important features of a website that is built with accessibility in mind is that it can be navigated with a keyboard. Most blind users and many users with motor disabilities rely on keyboard navigation, either with a standard keyboard or with a device that mi...

Daniel Pietzsch
07 Oct 2020

🎧 Meliora – Ghost

Ghost’s “Meliora” album made a return to my rotation. Songwriting par excellence.

Bandcamp

Daniel Pietzsch
07 Oct 2020

🎧 TRILOGY – Carpenter Brut

Pretty unusual for me since it’s very electronic. But great stuff!

Bandcamp

Daniel Pietzsch
07 Oct 2020

🎧 Hiss Spun – CHELSEA WOLFE

Got into Chelsea Wolfe. Mainly her “Hiss Spun” album. It’s a bit like the heavy, less electronic, even more melancholic version of Portishead. Also reminds me of the acts that would play Twin Peaks’ Roadhouse. Love it!

Bandcamp

Daniel Pietzsch
07 Oct 2020

🎧 Moontower – Dan Swanö

“The Big Sleep” was on some sampler when I was a teenager. I stumbled across this song again, and have now been listening to the whole “Moontower” album quite a bit. In case you don’t know: Dan Swanö plays all the instruments and does the singing, too. A true one-man-band.

Matthias Ott
05 Oct 2020 • Matthias Ott

On the Design Systems Between Us

Ethan Marcotte just gave a fabulous remote talk at SydCSS on the nature of design systems and the challenges of creating and maintaining them over time. Ethan managed to comprise so many of the things I’ve been hearing, noticing, and thinking about in such a concise and clea...

Daniel Pietzsch
04 Oct 2020

📖 Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen: aber wissen sollten – Alice Hasters

Ich dachte ich kann mich halbwegs gut in Menschen reinversetzen, die konstant Rassismus und anderen Diskriminierungen ausgesetzt sind. Aber dieses Buch hat mir vor Augen geführt, wie anstrengend, gefährlich und entmutigend das wirklich ist – und wie es ist wenn man dem...

Matthias Ott
29 Sep 2020 • Matthias Ott

Design and the 80/20 Principle

Over 120 years ago, an Italian engineer, sociologist, economist, and philosopher named Vilfredo Pareto made an astonishing discovery. He was looking at the distribution of land in Italy, when he observed that approximately 80 % of the land was owned by only 20 % of the popul...

Matthias Ott
21 Sep 2020 • Matthias Ott

CSS Custom Properties With @property

Una Kravets has written an excellent article about a feature that has been released with Chrome 85: The @property syntax of the Properties and Values API. The Properties and Values API is part of CSS Houdini, the next generation of additions to CSS allowing developers to ext...

Matthias Ott
12 Sep 2020 • Matthias Ott

AVIF: A New Image Format

It doesn’t happen every day that a new image format comes along. So it’s not surprising that people are excited that Chrome 85 has been released with support for the new AVIF format. AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) is an open image format based on the AV1 video format that was ...

Daniel Pietzsch
10 Sep 2020

🎬 Queen & Slim

A first date takes a fateful turn when a racist cop stops the two for a minor traffic violation. The cop ends up dead. They flee, and a days-long chase through the US ensues.

This film is very much fitting regarding the current #blacklivesmatter movement. It showcases on a few occasions how black people feel about the police; and how one might react when the police is rather considered an enemy than a friend.

It’s also a film about loneliness, companionship, trust and love.

Thumbs up!

Daniel Pietzsch
07 Sep 2020

🎬 Wrong

An absurd film. And pretty funny. Music and sounds are ace. I liked the visuals, too, because the rendition of the used lens(es) looked pretty “classic” to me – and I like “classic”. Apparently the writer/director Quentin Dupieux has some sort of cult status. I didn’t know him until this.

Matthias Ott
07 Sep 2020 • Matthias Ott

Your Brain Is Plastic

Martha Curtis had a dream. She wanted to become a violinist. She had been playing the violin since she was nine and excelled at it. But there was a problem. A huge problem. Martha had begun suffering from seizures at age three and a half. She was diagnosed with epilepsy and ...

Daniel Pietzsch
06 Sep 2020

🎬 Trainspotting T2

More nostalgia than anything else. Was ok. Wouldn’t watch again.

Daniel Pietzsch
05 Sep 2020

🎬 Lost Highway

Given that Nicole is a huge David Lynch fan, it’s surprising I haven’t watched this in full until recently. And I thoroughly enjoyed it. Great Lynch-y-en atmosphere and strangeness. Would watch again.

Daniel Pietzsch
04 Sep 2020

🎬 Knives Out

Well-written and filmed Cluedo/whodunnit-type movie. With star-cast. Awesome!

Matthias Ott
04 Sep 2020 • Matthias Ott

Aspect Ratio in CSS: Hacks and a New Property

Layout on the Web is all about flexibility. That elements adjust their dimensions to the size of their content, be it texts of varying length or images of different sizes, is a welcome feature, especially in times of Responsive Web Design because this flexibility makes build...

Daniel Pietzsch
04 Sep 2020

I bought my first bass guitar: an Epiphone Thunderbird. Should have done this earlier, because it’s so much fun!