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Bundesländer sind cool. 🤘

https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/bundeslaender-stellen-sich-gegen-reiches-neues-heizungsgesetz-a-c04748ed-2346-4400-acd3-fb40cc907c94

Looking forward to kicking off The Web You Want with a little good humoured provocation in my keynote 😇

It's on Wednesday and tickets are #free so come and join @vasilis, @Cyd, @johannes, @sarajw, @adactio, @julieblanc, @BjornW, and myself:
https://the-web-you-want.org/

#TheWebYouWant

„Die öffentliche Demütigung gab es schon mal. Von 1933 bis 1945 wurden etwa Sinti und Roma oder Juden auch gezwungen, vor der Haustür zu kehren und dann wurden sie deportiert. Die Botschaft lautet: Ihr seid nirgendwo sicher.“

Schon klar, wählt die ruhig weiter.
#noAfD #nazisraus

https://www1.wdr.de/nrw/ruhrgebiet/gelsenkirchen/gelsenkirchen-entsetzen-afd-video-putzen-100.html

Oh, so Svelte is basically also under the Vercel umbrella? 🙄 (Since 2021? I somehow missed that…)

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Not every modal is the same. They can be useful, e.g. when sending users to another page is disruptive, or when they are in the middle of a complex flow. They also help maintain multiple contexts at the same time, e.g. perform related actions without interrupting current sta...

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Do you remember when *large* companies would never pass on rising costs to consumers, they would take a hit to their *large* profits instead…? Yeah, them times are gone. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Inspired by the 'Logo Archive' trend, I thought I’d put together a smorgasbord of vector ‘stuff’. Logos, logotypes, characters and all sorts of other bits. Some public things, some Aardman things, some things that have never seen the light of day. Long story short, VIVA LA VECTOR! ✊🖋️

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[Turns off mobile phone]

The end of websites?

@kevinpowell asking important questions here:
https://youtu.be/Xpk7soxvOMY?is=PEXcsjf9Dnwo5-8f

Oh! Listening to my favorite podcast @shoptalkshow reminded me that I forgot to connect the dots to another, probably totally unrelated detail: that Chrome just shipped with the Prompt API and a 4GB Gemini Nano model, despite pushback from other browser makers.
https://matthiasott.com/notes/lazy-and-prompt

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by cumulative layout shift.

At Google I/O this week, the company announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years. The ten blue links? Gone. Instead, you get “generative UI” – custom interactive widgets, built on the fly by Gemini. You get “information agents” that monitor the web for you around the ...

At Google I/O this week, the company announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years. The ten blue links? Gone. Instead, you get “generative UI” – custom interactive widgets, built on the fly by Gemini. You get “information agents” that monitor the web for you around the ...

✍️ New post: Ad Infinitum

Google announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years at #GoogleIO. But where are the ads…? 🤔

https://matthiasott.com/notes/ad-infinitum

Why... WHY, in the year 2026, does the colour picker in Adobe Illustrator pick up the gradient style but NOT the gradient direction!?!?!? There's been over 30 full releases of Illustrator and this still happens!? https://static.klipy.com/ii/d6b0ce929193df3c242ac34b5654d2ce/56/82/tO3OmdE4.gif?hh=469&ww=498&mp4=Auw6SWLWJEfUNO1m&webm=QCgUpdjfD5N9pgJOz

It’s not much for those who are good at pinball, but 75 million for me on Fish Tales is a big deal!!

Good design needs a good taste and a strong point of view. When everyone can build and design anything, having a good judgement about what to design and build is what makes all the difference. That's what separates generic from great. As it turns out, we can borrow expertise...

Of course, there will still be ads. And auctions as well. And not only will that determine which ads show up, but how many words the LLM is writing about a product. They call it “prominence allocation”. The ad is in the generated content.
(Thanks @sijmen for the hint!) https://blog.reachsumit.com/posts/2024/08/ads-llm/

So Google is basically killing their main product? The ingenious money machine that made them billions? Or am I missing something … I mean: where are the ads? 🤔

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/