The V-Dem Institute, the world's most credible democracy watchdog, warns that Trump is aiming for dictatorship and the US is no longer a liberal democracy:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog
Added a feature to the Webmention plugin for @craftcms that I’ve wanted to add for a long time:
Threaded Webmentions 😍
I still need to fine-tune the logic for matching the in-reply-to URL a bit (Mastodon’s URLs vary, and there’s often also Bridgy in between). But overall, the feature works. 🥳
https://github.com/matthiasott/webmention/releases/tag/v1.1.1
RE: https://w3c.social/@timbl/116218139512953309
Still vague, but still so exciting …
Ahh, Jira is dark now!
Man, I really want to play 'MARATHON' as the aesthetics are *so* up my street, but i am terrible at games, especially shooters, so I fear I wouldn't have a good time. I wish Bungie would include a mode for time-poor skill-poor people!
I’d really love to work with more clients from the clean energy, climate tech, and green startups sectors going forward. If you know someone, let me know. 💚
“What if the physics of the very system itself – not the misguided politics, not the disingenuous pledges, but the underlying energy imbalance of the planet – has shifted in a way our models haven’t quite kept pace with?”
Maybe someone should tell policymakers that even the risk managers are alarmed by now.
✍️ New post: WeissKlang L1 – Punching Above Its Weight
#audio #recording #microphones
https://matthiasott.com/notes/weissklang-l1-punching-above-its-weight
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
WeissKlang L1 – Punching Above Its Weight
In November 1928, Georg Neumann and Erich Rickmann founded Georg Neumann & Co. in a Berlin workshop and by the end of that year, Neumann had debuted the CMV 3, the first mass-produced condenser microphone. The CMV designation stood for Condensator Mikrofon Verstärker, co...
Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott
WeissKlang L1 – Punching Above Its Weight
In November 1928, Georg Neumann and Erich Rickmann founded Georg Neumann & Co. in a Berlin workshop and by the end of that year, Neumann had debuted the CMV 3, the first mass-produced condenser microphone. The CMV designation stood for Condensator Mikrofon Verstärker, co...
Voted in the state elections against anti-democratic fascists and for the future of our children and the planet. ✅💚
Ohhh yesss!! The CodePen 2 beta is here! 🤩 Can’t wait to dive in.
Congrats to @chriscoyier and team! 👏👏👏
“Amidst all the commoditization there are small human spaces out there, waiting to be discovered, with people working diligently and with care in them. […] That's enough. It always was.”
Beautiful post by @tbaxter 👏
Went to the Country Music Hall of Fame last week & blown away by the Muscle Shoals exhibit. Then a tour of Hatch Show print shop & they had the exhibit poster. Shoulda bought it when I was there, but they have it online so I fixed it ❤️ (photo is from exhibit) https://shop.hatchshowprint.com/products/muscle-shoals-exhibit-poster?variant=47530389110958
🎉 NEW BLOG KLAXON!! 🎉 https://blog.jam-factory.com/roundup-023-25-years-of-jamfactory/
From The Den
• Gavin Strange
Roundup #023 - 25 years of Jamfactory 🎉
Hiya! How goes it? I've been celebrating as of late, as at the start of the month on the 6th February, it was exactly 25 years since first registering my domain name jam-factory.com, which means it's been a quarter of a century making stuff under
I thought you’d approve of Sully’s costume for WBD today @jamiesmart.bsky.social 👍
Just published a small enhancement and bugfix release for the #Webmention for #Craft CMS plugin.
It adds two important details though: lazy loading and alt text support for avatar images. 😎
https://github.com/matthiasott/webmention/releases/tag/v1.0.5
I need a few incoming webmentions for testing (okay, this sounds like a really fishy attempt to generate likes … I promise that it is not 😂). So would you all please like and repost this piece I recently wrote? You can also read it, of course.