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Issue 18 of #OwnYourWeb is out. ✨

Curators.

✷ Personal site of the (more or less every other) week by @henry ✷

With links to posts and tools by
@anarodrigues, @rachelandrew, @adactio, @anildash, @davatron5000, @manton, @robin, and @zeldman
Thank you all for keeping the open web alive! ✊🎉

https://newsletter.ownyourweb.site/archive/own-your-web-issue-18-curators/

The past few weeks I've been using #SHAPR3D + 3D Printing to make my own ergonomic 'camera case' for my #GoPro, using it as a stills fisheye camera rather than an action sports cam! I just uploaded it to Makerworld for you to download & print yourself! 👉https://makerworld.com/en/models/2700328

I wasn’t quite satisfied with it yet … so I’ll send out the issue a bit later. Which means there is still more time to sign up! 🎉😜

👉 https://matthiasott.com/newsletter

The agents (of non-enterprise customers) were burning too much money: GitHub tightens usage limits, removes Opus from the Pro plan, and pauses new sign-ups for Copilot individual plans.

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-github-copilot-individual-plans/

Things I have learned whilst in China... the Surf Shark Windows application is largely inaccessible with a screen reader, the Mozilla VPN application isn't much better, but the Tunnel Bear application is really very good indeed. #accessibility #privacy #security

It’s been a while… but how about a new #OwnYourWeb newsletter issue, going out tomorrow? 😊

https://matthiasott.com/newsletter

Even Claude says this is bad. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe you should have asked your country of geniuses in a vending machine before deploying this… 😉

Having a “‘White Stripes’ live album with AirPods, loudly” kinda morning

Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine:

#Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/

Alles Taktik 😬

Alles Taktik. Wir wiegen sie in Sicherheit.

Realmadridbesiegerbesieger 🤍♥️

If you feel like flagging the analytics subdomain of someone’s personal website on various DNS blocklists, at least take the time to look up what Plausible analytics is and why a cookie banner might not be needed before labelling it as "BREAKS EU LAW!" *sigh* 🙄

Also: there are only a few tickets left for what might just be Europe’s finest conference on design, creativity, and the Web. ✨ Trust me: this one’s genuinely special. The kind of event that will change you and your perspectives. 🖤

https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2026

A week from now, I’ll be in Düsseldorf for @btconf 🎉🤗

Can’t wait to be back in the audience – who will join me there? 👋

“Brevity was always a discipline. Now it’s a statement. When everything around you is excessive by default, choosing fewer words takes courage. It says: I thought about this. I edited. I respected your time more than I needed to show my work.”

Wise words from @zeldman 💙
https://zeldman.com/2026/04/15/the-courage-to-stop/

Oh boy, the Marathon soundtrack is RAD! I'm still yet to play the game, but loving all the art, animation and now the music, so good! If you like ambient-ey, drone-ey, glitch-ey, big beat-ey electronic stuff, then this is for you!

In this podcast episode, Martina interviews Snooze One, a lettering artist and content creator known for his experimental approach to letterforms. They discuss his journey into the world of lettering, from early influences in graffiti to developing a multidisciplinary practic...

✍️ New post: Design and Engineering, As One

A #longread about a man with a stopwatch, a school in Weimar, and why the gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident.

https://matthiasott.com/articles/design-and-engineering-as-one

In the winter of 1898, a mechanical engineer named Frederick Winslow Taylor arrived at the Bethlehem Steel Company in Pennsylvania with a stopwatch and a conviction. Taylor had been thinking for years about why industrial work was so inefficient, and he believed he had found...