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Just released a small but useful update for my little Internet Archive Plugin for Craft CMS. 🏛️

You can now opt individual entries out of automatic archiving via a lightswitch field – and manually send any entry to the Wayback Machine straight from the Craft CP entries index. ✨

https://github.com/matthiasott/craft-internetarchive

New UNSW Sydney research finds vaping likely causes lung and oral cancer: Carcinogens in e-cigarette aerosols show DNA damage, tumours in mice & cellular harm. Please – tell your children, friends, and loved ones who might believe the “vaping is safe" lie of the tobacco industry. 💚

https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2026/03/vaping-likely-to-cause-cancer-new-findings

✍️ New post: Hello Again, World

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https://matthiasott.com/notes/hello-again-world

On December 24, 1968, Christmas Eve, astronaut William Anders took what would become one of the most consequential photographs in human history. He was aboard Apollo 8, orbiting the Moon for the fourth time, when the spacecraft rotated and the Earth appeared in his window. A...

On December 24, 1968, Christmas Eve, astronaut William Anders took what would become one of the most consequential photographs in human history. He was aboard Apollo 8, orbiting the Moon for the fourth time, when the spacecraft rotated and the Earth appeared in his window. A...

It seems that GAIN (formerly Nomensa) and TPGi have decided to remove all the posts I wrote on their respective blogs, going back to 2002.

The Internet Archive Way Back Machine is not the most accessible thing to use, so if anyone has any bright ideas about how I could retreve the contents so I can republish, I'd be glad to hear them.

Only like 6-7 minutes left! 🚀

So “Matt” and “Matt” from Cloudflare used their AI coding agents to slopfork WordPress? Really? 🤔🧐

✨ Registrations for The Lettering Seminar 2026 are OPEN, enroll now at https://www.theletteringseminar.comIn this episode, I share a clear roadmap for learning lettering design, especially if you’ve ever felt stuck or unsure about your progress. Drawing from my own journey an...

I learned in design school in Germany that of course, the percent symbol is separated from the number with a space. Because you could also write 100 Prozent. You also don’t write 100cm without a space, right?

And the careful typographer will make a Jan Tschichold gesture and decrease the space slightly …

But obviously, things are different in written English.

That’s going to be … interesting 😂

Typography nerds, I need your opinion! (And help 🙏)
Channeling your inner Robert Bringhurst – how would you write a percentage in English correctly?

100 % – with a space, because % is a unit
100% – who needs a weird space here?
100 % – with a thin space, don't half-ass it!
Honestly, who cares, really…

The new WebAIM Million report is out, the eighth annual accessibility analysis of the top one million home pages on the Web. And after eight years of data, the picture is as sobering as ever. In 2019, 97.8% of home pages had detectable WCAG conformance failures. In 2026, tha...

The new WebAIM Million report is out, the eighth annual accessibility analysis of the top one million home pages on the Web. And after eight years of data, the picture is as sobering as ever. In 2019, 97.8% of home pages had detectable WCAG conformance failures. In 2026, tha...

✍️ New post: This, Still Not for Everyone

A few thoughts on the new WebAIM million report. And why we will only improve #accessibility on the Web together.

https://matthiasott.com/notes/this-still-not-for-everyone

Imagine that you need to improve the UX of a legacy system. A system that has been silently working in the background for almost a decade. It’s slow, half-broken, unreliable and severely outdated — a sort of “black box” that everyone relies upon, but nobody really knows what...

Last year I had the absolute pleasure of closing the first day of talks at Beyond Tellerrand festival, you can watch the whole talk right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmTNxGwdnIo

Quick reminder, especially if you’re a freelancer or developer using Free/Pro/Pro+ plans for client work: Opt out of GitHub using your data for AI model training before April 24 (seriously, wtf that this isn’t opt-in!).
https://github.com/settings/copilot/features#copilot-telemetry-policy

Use this link to try #Smol planet friendly essentials (laundry capsules, dishwasher tabs, multipurpose spray, and handwash) for £3, and the £6 referral for PerlBod and me will go to Suds In Schools to help them tackle hygiene poverty in schools:
http://smol.refr.cc/suds-in-schools/u/danhopkins

#climate #plastics #water #better

And here’s a small favour I’d love to ask: If you’ve seen me speak and have a few kind words to share – a short testimonial about your experience – I’d be genuinely thankful if you wrote me. It would mean a lot and help others know what to expect. 🙏💚