✍️ New post: Adding AVIF and WebP Support to My Craft CMS Site
#blogtober #CraftCMS #webdev #images #performance
https://matthiasott.com/notes/adding-avif-and-webp-support-to-my-craft-cms-site
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Adding AVIF and WebP Support to My Craft CMS Site
Five years ago, I wrote about AVIF: A New Image Format (back then). Since then, I’ve implemented WebP and AVIF support on numerous client sites for considerable performance improvements – but my own site was still serving JPEG, PNG, and GIF images only. So it was time to fix...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Adding AVIF and WebP Support to My Craft CMS Site
Five years ago, I wrote about AVIF: A New Image Format (back then). Since then, I’ve implemented WebP and AVIF support on numerous client sites for considerable performance improvements – but my own site was still serving JPEG, PNG, and GIF images only. So it was time to fix...
✍️ New post: Challenge
#blogtober #comics #process #FrankMiller
https://matthiasott.com/notes/challenge
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Challenge
It’s the early nineties. Legendary comic book artist Frank Miller had just broken away from the major publishers, after creating titles like Daredevil: Born Again, Ronin, and The Dark Knight Returns. He was now working with the then-young Dark Horse Comics, when he decided t...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Challenge
It’s the early nineties. Legendary comic book artist Frank Miller had just broken away from the major publishers, after creating titles like Daredevil: Born Again, Ronin, and The Dark Knight Returns. He was now working with the then-young Dark Horse Comics, when he decided t...
Always a good day when even a bit of it gets spent with @csswizardry.com - so good to catch up tonight, and looking forward to the next couple of days together at #WebUnleashed
I miss the immediate satisfaction of everybody freaking out about #wordle being down and tweeting about it
✍️ New post: Acoustic Room Treatment and Building Sound Panels, Part 1: Planning
#blogtober #audio #recording #sound #acoustics
https://matthiasott.com/notes/acoustic-room-treatment-and-building-sound-panels-part-1-planning
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Acoustic Room Treatment and Building Sound Panels, Part 1: Planning
Whether you are running online workshops, recording audio or video, or making music, it’s worth spending some time on acoustic treatment for your room. Shit in, shit out, as they say… In my case, I wanted to improve the sound of voice recordings and live audio in my little o...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Acoustic Room Treatment and Building Sound Panels, Part 1: Planning
Whether you are running online workshops, recording audio or video, or making music, it’s worth spending some time on acoustic treatment for your room. Shit in, shit out, as they say… In my case, I wanted to improve the sound of voice recordings and live audio in my little o...
We watched ‘Space Jam A New Legacy’ for family movie night this weekend and, erm… yeeeesh. 😬 https://media.tenor.com/ExxSQLAJrXMAAAAC/wind-up-lebron-james.gif?hh=278&ww=498
How I made a virtual pinball machine! This is just *part* of the story though, the software side is even more in-depth! Have a read of the full story over in my blog: https://blog.jam-factory.com/making-a-virtual-pinball-table-part-1/
✍️ New post: Play On
#blogtober #music #play #technology #web
https://matthiasott.com/notes/play-on
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Play On
In the late 1960s, a young musician was recording the sounds he played on his synthesizer onto his Revox tape recorders, when he suddenly discovered: if you connect the two tape recorders together, so that the playback head is separated by several feet from the record head, ...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Play On
In the late 1960s, a young musician was recording the sounds he played on his synthesizer onto his Revox tape recorders, when he suddenly discovered: if you connect the two tape recorders together, so that the playback head is separated by several feet from the record head, ...
I‘m implementing a #GDPR-compliant #cookie #banner at the moment – and will write a #blogtober post about it – but now I’m curious: which (ideally open-source) solution are you swearing by or is working for you? Of course it should block all requests/cookies before consent is given.
I'm a bit swamped recently, so I haven't had time to write a new blog, but why not head over there and have a read through my mega-big-blog all about how I designed and played the title sequence for my friends at Beyond Tellerrand conference earlier this year: https://blog.jam-factory.com/behind-the-scenes-beyond-tellerrand-2025-title-sequence/
✍️ New post: Overshoot
#blogtober #climate #climateAction #podcast
https://matthiasott.com/notes/overshoot
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
Overshoot
I still remember that moment. Do You?
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