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In November the UK Government promised to remove certain levies and obligations from fuel bills and this comes into effect on 1 April, saving the average household about £120 a year.

Octopus Energy has a good explaination here:
https://octopus.energy/blog/april-2026-price-cap-updates/

#energy #CostOfLiving

today’s race to prove the least reliable (between Amtrak and MBTA commuter rail) is being resoundingly won by Amtrak. This is not a compliment.

Release 1.2.0 of Webmention for Craft CMS adds a “Failed Webmentions” view for easier debugging and retrying with one click. 🎉

https://github.com/matthiasott/webmention/releases/tag/v1.2.0

Webmentions can fail for all kinds of reasons – broken microformats, unreachable sources, flaky CDNs – and debugging them from log files is cumbersome. So I added a new “Failed Webmentions” section to the Craft CMS plugin’s control panel that shows what went wrong. Already works on my machine™ 😁

Spent the afternoon sitting in the garden in the sunshine. There might have been a G&T involved. It was glorious!

Hello migraine with aura my old friend… 😘

Could be fun to try to visualize that. The patterns are different every time and a mix of blank spots, blurry areas, and rainbow stars or rather twinkling chrystal patterns slowly growing and wandering around my field of vision. ✨

Gave my ‘Yoga Flame’ arcade cab a flame-worthy Sanwa button upgrade 👌🔥

✍️ New post: The Shape of Friction

I wrote a short blog post reply to @davatron5000’s recent post (👏) about generative AI, friction, and people.

https://matthiasott.com/notes/the-shape-of-friction

Dave Rupert just wrote a piece called People are not friction and I just had to write a short reaction blog post, because Dave names something I’ve been thinking about for a while now. His main argument: the AI marketing dream of a “frictionless” workflow – where you automat...

Dave Rupert just wrote a piece called People are not friction and I just had to write a short reaction blog post, because Dave names something I’ve been thinking about for a while now. His main argument: the AI marketing dream of a “frictionless” workflow – where you automat...

Can anyone recommend a screen reader #accessible webapp/Windows application (not mobile app) that'll let me cross-post to Masto and Bluesky? TIA.

We often assume that the safest way to build user trust is through transparency. We show users what happens, we explain the rationale behind decisions, we break down outcomes into step-by-step instructions that make sense. That's how we make products feel more reliable and t...

🎨 Join my upcoming FREE workshop series, The Lettering Roadmap:https://www.martinaflor.com/masterclass In this episode of Open Studio, I share why craft matters more than ever in the age of AI. As tools make creation faster, I explain why the real value lies in how we refin...

#RIP Len Deighton
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/17/len-deighton-obituary

Time to read the excellent Berlin Game, Mexico Set, and London Match again.

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!