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Attacked by the Evil Empire

Yesterday arrived with an onslaught of Russian spambots abusing the comment form here, and nothing seemed able to stop them. Cloudflare worked, then it didn’t. Slightly panicked here, I might have slowed the flow by adding a block on 11 IP ranges. And still they seemed to ke...

Matthias Ott Supports Webmention
• Matthias Ott

CSS :is() :where() the Magic Happens

For Blogtober, I dug up a draft about the two CSS pseudo-class functions :is() and :where() that I’d had lying around in my drafts folder for quite some time. Actually, when I originally started writing this post, :is() and :where() had just landed in CSS, and — just like wi...

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• Matthias Ott

Visual Regression Testing for External URLs With Playwright

We’ve all been there: You write a bit of CSS, check whether everything looks right. You deploy. Then someone sends you a screenshot: the mobile navigation is broken. And why is the size of those headings just a bit off? And where has that button gone? Especially when you are...

Christian "Schepp" Schaefer Valid

HTML trivia: WAI-ARIA 1.3’s aria-brailleroledescription (27 chars) is the longest non-data-* HTML attribute.

Runners-up: onwebkitanimationiteration (26), onsecuritypolicyviolation (25), onwebkitfullscreenchange (24), disablepictureinpicture (23), webkitallowfullscreen (21).

jeremycherfas.net Supports Webmention

TIL: sips for Image Manipulation

I’ve been helping the Squeeze update her website to show new work, a lot of which requires me to rightsize the image files she produces as part of her practice. Normally not much of a problem but occasional enormous TIFF files cause all the tools I have to stutter and fail. Fearing I might have to install ImageMagick or similar, I cast around online and found Use sips to quickly, easily—and freely—convert image files. Bingo!

I did one run of a straight TIFF to JPEG conversion and it worked, but the JPEG was still too large. So I actually read sips help and discovered the -Z option to specify a size in pixels for the largest dimension.

sips -s format jpeg -s formatOptions 80 -Z 1920 "input.tiff" --out "output.jpeg"

Took me down from 251Mb to 862Kb in no time flat. Very good to know.

jeremycherfas.net Supports Webmention

Printed is not the Point

Naomi Duguid is just one of the writers I enjoy who has succumbed to the lure of Substack. I’ve made my brief pitch to each of them to consider some other place, which generally falls on almost-deaf ears because of the supposed network effects: “the building of visibility an...

Matthias Ott Supports Webmention
• Matthias Ott

Jane Goodall’s Famous Last Words

Jane Goodall, the scientist, conservationist, and educator who died last Wednesday at 91, will always be remembered for her singular, field-defining work on wild chimpanzees. She lived with wild chimpanzees to study them, befriended them, and made a groundbreaking discovery:...

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• Matthias Ott

European Tech Alternatives 🇪🇺

For a European with lots of friends and like-minded web folks in the US, it is both heartbreaking and bewildering to see how the political and societal climate in the country is changing right now. All of this is not only worrisome from a political perspective, but also pose...

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• Matthias Ott

Tweaking the Circuits

When the people at EMI ordered a bunch of Altec 436B compressors in the late 1950s for Abbey Road Studios, they were hoping for that legendary American sound they had heard at their sister studio Capitol Records in Los Angeles. But when the units arrived in London and the en...

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You've got mail

This poem was partially inspired by "Poems From An Email Exchange" by Hanif Abdurraqib.
It's angry and contains foul language. Also posted to Indienews

This post can also be read in German

Subject: "Re-Design and Promotion Strategy for Dead.Garden"
Subject: "About your Dead.Garden"
Subject: "Errors in your Dead.Garden"

Dear Dead,
your website is not good enough, in fact, it is actively bad.
Don't you know that you need Search Engine Optimization?
What are you, some kind of idiot?
Your site is currently ranked on page 1,000,000 of Google,
and if we know anything (in fact, we know everything),
this means that you are wasting not only your time,
but much more importantly
money.

Read more on the site…

Matthias Ott Supports Webmention
• Matthias Ott

Age Quod Agis

Age quod agis. This Latin phrase, attributed to Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit Order, translates to “do what you are doing.” Do what you are doing. Like in: dedicate yourself wholeheartedly to whatever you engage in. Do what you are doing. Not the thing over ...

James' Coffee Blog Supports Webmention
• James' Coffee Blog

When your website makes you smile

For most days of the year, the name of my website – James’ Coffee Blog – is followed by a coffee cup emoji. But, on some days, the coffee cup emoji changes. I have a calendar of events for which the emoji changes, including International Day of Peace (September 21st), Burns N...

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• Matthias Ott

Blogtober 2025 - Day 1

It’s Blogtober again. And this time, I’ve (more or less spontaneously) decided to take part in it. For those of you who don’t know what it is: Blogtober is a writing challenge that takes part every Oktober (similar to Bloguary, Blobuary, Blarch, Blapril, Blay, Blune, Bluly, ...

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IndieWeb Book Club: Oct 2025 | Zachary Kai

This month on IndieWeb Book Club! I invite you to read The Creative Act by Rick Rubin and post about it on your site. It's an exploration of creativity as a way of being. ...

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• James' Coffee Blog

Saying thanks on the web

One of the things I love most about blogging is that you can write about an explore an idea as it forms, without necessarily having a specific resolution or end state in mind. With that in mind, I wanted to document a line of thinking that has been on my mind for the last wee...

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Notebooks Need Follow-up

“I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.” The famed Field Notes tagline is all very well but what if, even having written it down, you fail to remember it? Quasi-disaster ensues, if you’re me. As usual, the culprit is past me not...

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• Naty S

Web Syndication: RSS and Atom Feeds

Web Syndication: RSS and Atom Feeds

Explaining basics of web syndication feeds for websites. Two feeds are available: a RSS summary feed and an Atom full-text feed. Fit your reading preferences and get BurgeonLab blog updates easily.

James' Coffee Blog Supports Webmention
• James' Coffee Blog

Walking

After reading – and enjoying a delicious coffee – I let my feet take me where they wanted to go. At the intersection of two roads on the Royal Mile – the heart of Old Town in Edinburgh – I turned my head right and thought about how long it had been since I had walked down the...

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• James' Coffee Blog

Updating user interfaces

My experience of the tool in which I write blog posts – Typora – is functionally the same as it was when I started using the tool several years ago. Typora starts as it always does since I set it up: as a blank page, ready for me to start writing. There have been many update...

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• James' Coffee Blog

Today

More leaves and trees are turning from green to orange. On a walk earlier today, I looked around with awe as I noticed more leaves are turning yellow and red and orange. I even saw one tree that is almost entirely red! In spring, the tree blossoms a delightful pink; in autumn...