✍️ New post: What Could Go Wrong?
#blogtober #ai #technology #society #humanity
https://matthiasott.com/notes/what-could-go-wrong
✍️ New post: That’s My Rank
#blogtober #interop #platform #web
https://matthiasott.com/notes/thats-my-rank
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
That’s My Rank
Have you ever wondered why new CSS features and other web technologies very often seem to just work across browsers these days? The reason is probably: Interop.
The Interop Project is a collaborative effort between major browser makers — Apple, Bocoup, Google, Igalia, Micro...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
That’s My Rank
Have you ever wondered why new CSS features and other web technologies very often seem to just work across browsers these days? The reason is probably: Interop.
The Interop Project is a collaborative effort between major browser makers — Apple, Bocoup, Google, Igalia, Micro...
Heading to the big smoke today for Playgrounds festival!
“Honestly, I feel like web developers are constantly being gaslit into thinking that complex over-engineered solutions are the only option. When the discourse is being dominated by people invested in frameworks and libraries, all our default thinking will involve frameworks and libraries. That’s not good for users, and I don’t think it’s good for us either.”
Mic drop by @adactio 👏
https://adactio.com/journal/22178
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Making Space
Gregory Scott, founder of Kush Audio, shared an interesting insight about mixing music the other day: Sometimes, to bring something forward in the mix, instead of turning it up, it can be more effective to actually turn all the other things down.
Let’s say you realise that ...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Making Space
Gregory Scott, founder of Kush Audio, shared an interesting insight about mixing music the other day: Sometimes, to bring something forward in the mix, instead of turning it up, it can be more effective to actually turn all the other things down.
Let’s say you realise that ...
✍️ New post: Making Space
#blogtober #music #mixing #design #creativity
https://matthiasott.com/notes/making-space
Beautiful new release by Philipp Neumeyer and TypeMates:
Yuni Grotesque 😍
Next TDC Award incoming … 😉
#typefaces #fonts #type #design
https://www.typemates.com/fonts/yuni-grotesque
Gave a new talk today at #SmashingConf about ‘typographic curiosities’—in performance, responsiveness, and expression. Loved the response so far so wanted to share the slides and resources: https://noti.st/jpamental/3AhnW9/typographic-curiosities
Currently on view at Gazelli Art House in London.
Elternabend.
✍️ New post: CSS :is() :where() the Magic Happens
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#blogtober #css #css #css
https://matthiasott.com/notes/css-is-where-the-magic-happens
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
CSS :is() :where() the Magic Happens
For Blogtober, I dug up a draft about the two CSS pseudo-class functions :is() and :where() that I’d had lying around in my drafts folder for quite some time. Actually, when I originally started writing this post, :is() and :where() had just landed in CSS, and — just like wi...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
CSS :is() :where() the Magic Happens
For Blogtober, I dug up a draft about the two CSS pseudo-class functions :is() and :where() that I’d had lying around in my drafts folder for quite some time. Actually, when I originally started writing this post, :is() and :where() had just landed in CSS, and — just like wi...
“The fact that copyrighted works aren’t eligible unless they’ve formally registered feels like a lawyerly dodge: a legal maneuver to help Anthropic reduce the size of its payout pool, and thereby keeping the company from getting rendered down into its component parts during bankruptcy proceedings.”
— @beep
Haven’t posted here in a bit. But back at a web conference and feels like a good time to get back to it. If you’re at #SmashingConf in NYC say hello!
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...