Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
My first ever pedalboard is taking shape.
In addition to the looper, the phaser, and the Little Big Muff fuzz I mentioned before, I now also got an EHX Pitch Fork and an expression pedal.
It’s all attached to the pretty much smallest pre-build board I could find: a Fame Spaceboard 50S.
And I think I now want to buy a single dedicated power supply, which can power all those pedals. Because it’s currently a little annoying having to power the pedals all individually.
Anyhow: happy progress!
📄 Webmentions
This site can now receive Webmentions. Either directly or via Twitter (with Bridgy’s help).
🎧 Over and Over and Over – Jack White
Listening to this over and over and over again…
📄 Guitar Gear Excitement
Recently, I really got into guitar gear – especially effect pedals.
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Thoughts on Writing: What They Say
Last week I discovered Royal Blood and was blown away! Just check out this festival gig:
They’re only a duo – a drummer and a bassist (!) – but produce an impressive (and innovative) sound. Have not seen anything quite like it. It’s like The White Stripes meet Muse and it’s brilliant!
Today, the Trident Era Ends
I just learned about the CSS scroll-behavior property and immediately applied it to a site. Super simple JS-independent smooth scrolling. :-)
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
My RSS Feed Collection of Personal Websites
📄 New camera: the Yashica FR1
Last year, I acquired a few new cameras. One of them was a Yashica FR1 (or FRI, as it’s often written as) with a selection of lenses. It was a random opportunity. And I took it. Here are some first images taken with the 24mm lens I bought with it.
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
2019 Year in Review
🔗 March 2019 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
March was a mixed bag. I was doing lots of trips back and forth between Ratingen and Düsseldorf, preparing the move into our new apartment. Plus, I started a new/old job again, being busy working full time again.
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Thoughts on Writing: Shitty First Drafts
📄 Dark mode
While this site is new and super-simple, I thought I add an automatic “dark mode” real quick.
Added syntax highlighting now, too. Since Jekyll generates the necessary markup out of the box, it was simply a matter of choosing an additional stylesheet, including it, and making a few more adjustments.
📄 Responsive images
I have now added the ability to display responsive images. And I write a little bit about how I do it using the tools I run the build this site.
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott