Woohoo! Addressable LED strips now mounted underneath my playfield TB via some trunking I designed & 3D printed which sync directly with what’s happening in the game! (After much support and help from the visual pinball chat discord! 👏)
Matthias Ott
• 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...
Matthias Ott
• 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...
✍️ New post: Visual Regression Testing for External URLs With Playwright
#blogtober #webdev #css #testing #playwright
https://matthiasott.com/notes/visual-regression-testing-for-external-urls-with-playwright
It’s taken a while, and I’ve made a million rookie mistakes along the way, but I’ve now got addressable LED strips that react based on whatever is happening inside the VPX pinball software!
✍️ New post: Jane Goodall’s Famous Last Words
#blogtober #interview #janegoodall #climateaction #nature
https://matthiasott.com/notes/jane-goodalls-famous-last-words
Matthias Ott
• 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:...
Matthias Ott
• 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:...
Smart Interface Design Patterns
• 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
• 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...
Smart Interface Design Patterns
• Vitaly Friedman
Useful UX Research Calculators and Guides
UX research doesn’t have to be expensive or time-consuming. Yet very often it’s perceived as a huge, blocking effort, requiring weeks and months of work, often without a clear timeline in mind.
In practice, we can get meaningful insights without significant delays. Let’s see...
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. 🤓
…… 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. 🤔
Just realised that after relaunching my personal site last month, the Webmentions stopped working … 🤔 #brb
Matthias Ott
• 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
• 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...
✍️ New post: European Tech Alternatives 🇪🇺
#blogtober #tech #software #europe
https://matthiasott.com/notes/european-tech-alternatives
I somehow get the feeling that we will soon feel very lucky to have an open, European social network with Mastodon.
COVID booster sorted 💉💪
Matthias Ott
• 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...