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• Matt

WordPress, Taylor Swift, Super Bowl, oh my

There has been quite a bit of buzz in the WordPress community because during the Grammys red carpet Taylor Swift’s website went down and this is what everyone saw: Hey there! That looks familiar. What a beautiful WordPress logo! (Hat tip: Alexa Scordato for telling me about this.) The website also had some ups and … Continue reading WordPress, Taylor Swift, Super Bowl, oh my →

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• Matt

Debt vs Equity

Balaji Srinivasan posted a great essay on how founders should think about debt vs equity, unfortunately it’s on X/Twitter so the format isn’t great, but the content is gold. As we exit the ZIRP world and go back into normal interest rates, I think this is really important concept for entrepreneurs to understand.

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• Matt

Thoughts on Tech Employment

The Washington Post writes The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? This article has some good data, but I think misses the point with sub-heads like “Shine has come off the tech industry.” Really? How is that reflected in their stock prices? I think a few things are happening. … Continue reading Thoughts on Tech Employment →

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Offloading JavaScript With Custom Properties

Sometimes a web development client doesn’t know quite what they want. Trying to guess is difficult and delivering a guess is risky. Where they have a vague idea, I offer to set them up with the means to create what they want for themselves—when they work out precisely what t...

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Own Your Web – Issue 8: On a Roll

Hi All! 🤗 “Where have all the websites gone?” “Websites, as we know them, are dead.” “Blogging is dead.” I don’t know about you, but whenever I hear or read statements like that in controversial headlines or viral posts, I can’t help but think: “No! All of that is still here...

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Own Your Web – Issue 8: On a Roll

Hi All! 🤗 “Where have all the websites gone?” “Websites, as we know them, are dead.” “Blogging is dead.” I don’t know about you, but whenever I hear or read statements like that in controversial headlines or viral posts, I can’t help but think: “No! All of that is still here...

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• Phil Gyford

TypePad feeds are back

It's time for some chat about RSS/Atom feeds, and let's start with some good news. A few months ago, when we were fetching the feeds of any TypePad blogs, they were returning a "403 Forbidden" error because they were protected by Cloudflare's anti-bot captcha mechanism. Cloudflare have a list of approved bots but to get on their list you must satisfy various conditions, including sending at least 1000 requests per day. ooh.directory isn't that big or aggressive, so it wasn't a surprise that we never heard anything back from our application.

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Own Your Web – Issue 7: What Is It For?

Hi All! 🤗 One question I’ve heard repeatedly from people getting started with their personal website is “what pages and sections – like blog, photos, about me – does my site need to have?” I asked myself the exact same question when I first started with my site. I looked at ...

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Own Your Web – Issue 7: What Is It For?

Hi All! 🤗 One question I’ve heard repeatedly from people getting started with their personal website is “what pages and sections – like blog, photos, about me – does my site need to have?” I asked myself the exact same question when I first started with my site. I looked at ...

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• Matthias Pfefferle

Hier bloggt der Chef noch selbst

Vor ein paar Tagen schrieb Tantek Çelik (@tantek.com) auf seinem Blog: No large language models (LLM) were used in the production of this post. Inspired by a subtle but clear sign-of-the-times one-line disclaimer at the end of RFC9518’s Acknowledgments (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9518.html#appendix-A-4) Ich weiß nicht ob „inspiriert“ hier der richtige Begriff ist… ich weiß was er meint […]

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• Matthias Ott

All Things Being Equalized

For my birthday, I got a new pair of speakers for my home office / home studio. After looking around for quite some time, I settled on the ADAM Audio T5V in the end. The T5Vs are affordable, entry-level studio monitors with a 5“ woofer that are optimized for smaller rooms. A...

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• Matthias Ott

42 for 42

I’m turning 42 today and yes, I am as surprised about that number as you are. If 42 really is the answer to life, the universe, and everything, then maybe it makes sense to look back on what the old lad actually le...

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• Phil Gyford

A page for every blog

A couple of months ago regular visitors might have noticed a little change to the site – every blog now has its own page. Now that this is working smoothly, and seasonal holidays are out of the way, here's the blog post about that change.

Matthias Ott Supports Webmention
• Matthias Ott

Tour De-Noise

Whether you are running online workshops, hosting a live stream, or recording audio or video content, optimal audio quality is absolutely essential. People in your audience might tolerate if your video is noisy or not perfectly sharp. But if your audio quality is poor, for e...

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• Matthias Ott

What’s Too Good to Be True?

The web platform is changing rapidly these days. With every major browser release, more and more powerful features get added, many of which are based on previous input about what web developers need to build better for the web. One way for browser vendors and developer advoc...

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• Matthias Ott

The Best Comment Section on the Internet

Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, recently sat down with Tim Ferriss to talk about a bunch of different things. One of those things: blogging. It might not come as a surprise, but Matt described blogging as one of the most rewarding things he did...

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• Matthias Ott

2024: The Year of the Personal Website

At the beginning of 2023, I wrote in a blog post which I titled The Year of the Personal Website: In the search for a permanent home on the web, more and more people are now rediscovering the personal website as a pla...

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Own Your Web – Issue 6: The Year of the Personal Website

Hi All! 🤗 At the beginning of this year, I wrote in a blog post which I titled The Year of the Personal Website: In the search for a permanent home on the web, more and more people are now rediscovering the personal website as a place to share and document their thoughts and...

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Own Your Web – Issue 6: The Year of the Personal Website

Hi All! 🤗 At the beginning of this year, I wrote in a blog post which I titled The Year of the Personal Website: In the search for a permanent home on the web, more and more people are now rediscovering the personal website as a place to share and document their thoughts and...

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Own Your Web – Issue 5: For Everyone

Hi All! 🤗 In the previous issues, we looked at how you can choose a domain name, how a personal website can change your life, and what people are using to build their sites. But Matthias, I hear you say, that all sounds a lot like something that requires a lot of technical k...