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31 years.

For the kids: That’s a dad joke referring to a line from a hip-hop track from 31 years ago.

I just had to … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#shimmyshimmyya

@chriscoyier @davatron5000 Thanks for the shout out on my favorite podcast! 🤗 The issue in my case was indeed an incredibly large number of crawler bots from different countries, all brute-force attacking my notes section with tags in the URL params. They also completely ignored nofollow and canonical. The majority were coming from Singapore, later Taiwan. So I still have no idea why my hosting provider decided to block Canada. 😆

🎨 Join my upcoming FREE workshop series, The Lettering Roadmap:https://www.martinaflor.com/masterclassWhat does it really take to build a career in lettering design? In this video, I share the real journey most lettering designers go through—from that first spark of curiosity...

We often see design principles as rigid guidelines that dictate design decisions. But actually, they are an incredible tool to rally the team around a shared purpose — and document the values and beliefs that an organization embodies. They align teams and inform decision-mak...

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.