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Own Your Web – Issue 3: Life-Changing

Hi All! 🤗 So, you registered a domain. And you started working on your personal site. Maybe you already got a first version of your site online. Perhaps you even published a few posts. But suddenly, there’s this question in your head: “But – is it worth it?” Almost everyone ...

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Own Your Web – Issue 2: What’s in a Name?

Hi All! 🤗 Let’s talk about one of the first things to consider when setting up your personal website: the name, or to be more specific, the domain name. Picking a domain name is something people often struggle with, because it comes with a few questions: What is a “good” dom...

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Own Your Web – Issue 2: What’s in a Name?

Hi All! 🤗 Let’s talk about one of the first things to consider when setting up your personal website: the name, or to be more specific, the domain name. Picking a domain name is something people often struggle with, because it comes with a few questions: What is a “good” dom...

Matthias Ott Supports Webmention
• Matthias Ott

No Borders

Where were you in 2013 and what were you doing back then? What have you done over those last ten years? How have the last ten years changed your life, your work, or what’s important to you? I don’t know about you, but I definitely don’t often pause to reflect about the past ...

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Own Your Web – Issue 1: Your Superpower

Hi All! Welcome to Own Your Web! 🎉 First of all, I’d like to thank you again for signing up! 🤗 When I shared the link to the newsletter last weekend, I did not expect that so many people would subscribe so quickly. I’m overwhelmed by the response and I see it as a sign that ...

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Own Your Web – Issue 1: Your Superpower

Hi All! Welcome to Own Your Web! 🎉 First of all, I’d like to thank you again for signing up! 🤗 When I shared the link to the newsletter last weekend, I did not expect that so many people would subscribe so quickly. I’m overwhelmed by the response and I see it as a sign that ...

HeydonWorks

Transcript: What Are Accessibility Overlays?

The following is a transcript of my Webbed Briefs video “What Are Accessibility Overlays?”. If you put a sombrero on a cat, would that cat become Mexican? In short: no. The sombrero would remain Mexican and the cat non-Mexican. But the combination of the two would be consid...

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• Phil Gyford

All TypePad feeds are failing

As mentioned last time there are always a few blogs' feeds that we have problems fetching, ultimately giving up until we one day find a solution. Usually they're either 403 Forbidden errors, or difficulties connecting to the domain, despite the feeds being visible/downloadable in a web browser. But for more than a week, all the feeds we track that are hosted at TypePad have been returning 403 errors. This means that, along with other failing blogs, we can no longer display the latest posts for TypePad blogs.

Matthias Ott Supports Webmention
• Matthias Ott

My Favorite Mac Apps in 2023

After three years, I finally replaced my old Intel MacBook Pro – and its cracked screen – with a new machine. I’m still holding back a bit with my excitement for this 16-inch M1 Max MacBook Pro, just because I was ...

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• Matthias Ott

WOFF Has Left the Building

In a recent project, the web fonts I bought and downloaded were only available as WOFF2 files. Staring in disbelief at the unpacked folder full of WOFF2 files, I wondered: Why did they not include WOFF files as well? Isn’t WOFF still needed? Or is it finally time to ditch WO...

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• Matthias Ott

Pointing Fingers

Don’t use your finger!” Regardless of which country and school system you grew up in, chances are you have heard this sentence at least once from one of your teachers. I, for one, remember my elementary...

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• Phil Gyford

2 tiny features and 2000 blogs

It's been a while, so a quick update, leading with the fact we've just passed 2,000 blogs in the directory! Progress has been slower than usual – what with, you know, life – but it's good to pass another milestone and to know there are still so many, many interesting blogs out there yet to add.

Matthias Ott Supports Webmention
• Matthias Ott

Good Riddance, GPTBot

Just like Google is constantly indexing the Web, OpenAI is now crawling the open Web to scrape content from websites for free to train their LLM (lucrative language model) “AI” products.

But, as I learned from a post by Ethan on Mastodon, you can disallow GPTBot to get its tiny robot hands on your writing by adding those two lines of code to your website’s robots.txt:

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

Good riddance, GPTBot! 👋

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• Phil Gyford

What does recently updated mean?

You might be familiar with the Recently updated blogs page, which shows a list of blogs ordered by those that posted most recently. It can be a nice way to see what people are blogging about right now. In fact, in a recent blog post, Warren Ellis said: the ooh.directory recently updated blogs list is what I have instead of social media if I’m in the mood to “waste” time on my phone Which sounds like a great idea. However, a while back I realised a small problem with the page. 

Matthias Ott Supports Webmention
• Matthias Ott

The New CSS

Alright, let’s write more about CSS! CSS! CSS! Change I’ve been writing CSS since the early 2000s, shortly after we ditched building web layouts with tables and spacer GIFs in favor of hacking our designs together with floats. CSS has since become my favorite programming lan...

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• Matthias Ott

Writing, Fragments, and the Memex Method

This piece by Cory Doctorow about blogging, which I read a few days ago, is exceptional. Why? I already knew that blogging – and having a personal website in general – is a superpower. I had heard before of Vannevar Bush’s groundbreaking essay “As We May Think” that directly...

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• Matthias Ott

Simple Truths About Personal Websites

Nobody knows you.

You are not entitled to anyone’s attention.

Be respectful, be helpful, be kind.

Your personal website isn’t a replacement for social media. It’s much more than that.

Who is your site for?

Document your life.

Your perspective matters.

Capture your thoughts.

Share what makes you lean forward.

Use RSS.

You never know what sticks.

Make it easy to publish.

Enjoy the process.

The adverb is not your friend.

Typography is everything.

You will surprise yourself.

You will grow.

Be curious. Be intentional.

This is your playground. Play.

Your canvas is limitless.

Sell the world.

Hit publish.

It’s yours.

HeydonWorks

Functional documentation

Some collected thoughts and ideas around applying a functional approach to writing and maintaining documentation, especially for design systems. In programming, you have these things called functions. Functions are chunks of code, typically identified by name. How you write...