FeedCity: btconf 2025 speakers

Smart Interface Design Patterns
06 Oct 00:00 • Vitaly Friedman

How To Build A UX Team From Scratch

A while back I stumbled upon an honest, practical guide on how to scale a design team in a high-growth company, including a team’s evolution, roles, meetings, processes and systems. Kindly shared by Andrew Coyle. Andrew raised a few useful points that I never thought of, and...

Smart Interface Design Patterns
06 Oct 00:00 • Vitaly Friedman

How To Design Bulk Import UX (+ Figma Prototypes)

Friendly note: get a friendly UX bundle for Smart Interface Design Patterns 🍣 and Measuring UX 🍎 — with live UX training coming up. Jump to table of contents. Bulk operations are heavily underused in most products. The term refers to running repetitive tasks in lar...

Matthias Ott
05 Oct 11:24

In case you missed my post from day 3 of #blogtober: It’s about a legendary piece of gear that shaped the sound of Abbey Road studios – and what it all has to do with building for the #Web. 🤓

https://matthiasott.com/notes/tweaking-the-circuits

Matthias Ott
05 Oct 10:24

…… aaand we’re back. The “human-friendly” #webmention endpoint returned a 302 instead of a 202 for *all* http requests. Now it distinguishes between general requests and those coming from an HTML form. Still not sure whether this is the best solution, but it works for now. 🤔

Matthias Ott
05 Oct 08:33

Just realised that after relaunching my personal site last month, the Webmentions stopped working … 🤔 #brb

Matthias Ott
05 Oct 00:48 • 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...

Matthias Ott
05 Oct 00:48 • 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...

Matthias Ott
05 Oct 00:33

✍️ New post: European Tech Alternatives 🇪🇺

#blogtober #tech #software #europe
https://matthiasott.com/notes/european-tech-alternatives

Matthias Ott
04 Oct 20:03

I somehow get the feeling that we will soon feel very lucky to have an open, European social network with Mastodon.

Léonie Watson
04 Oct 15:15

COVID booster sorted 💉💪

Matthias Ott
04 Oct 10:25 • 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...

Matthias Ott
04 Oct 10:25 • 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...

Matthias Ott
04 Oct 09:57

✍️ New post: Tweaking the Circuits

#blogtober #web #design #engineering #audio #history
https://matthiasott.com/notes/tweaking-the-circuits

@brendandawes.xyz - Brendan Dawes
03 Oct 15:09

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n16/ruby-hamilton/things-go-kerflooey

Léonie Watson
03 Oct 12:54

Patricia Routledge is one of the actors I most admire. A Woman of No Importance and the later Alan Bennet Talking Heads monologue A Lady of Letters, were among my many inspirations as I studied performing arts.

The (unconnected Ladies of Letters on Radio 4 with Prunella Scales still makes me chortle, and her portrayal of Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "Bouquet") was, of course, just sublime.

#RIP
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c511ym2r2xpo

Matthias Ott
03 Oct 00:18 • 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 ...

Matthias Ott
03 Oct 00:18 • 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 ...

Matthias Ott
02 Oct 23:51

✍️ New post: Age Quod Agis

#blogtober

https://matthiasott.com/notes/age-quod-agis

@jamfactory.bsky.social - Gavin Strange [Jamfactory]
02 Oct 20:36

This pink berk (the sculpture) just sold for £19,000 at the Gromit Unleashed 3 auction, all raising money for the incredible Grand Appeal charity - raising money for sick children and their facilities. 💖💖💖

Matthias Ott
02 Oct 07:03 • 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, ...