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Rick Beato just published another one of his long-form interviews. This time, he interviewed Josh Homme. Josh is from Palm Desert, California, where there were no clubs, so his band Kyuss, which he founded when he was 14, played parties outside in the desert. Out there, as ...

Rick Beato just published another one of his long-form interviews. This time, he interviewed Josh Homme. Josh is from Palm Desert, California, where there were no clubs, so his band Kyuss, which he founded when he was 14, played parties outside in the desert. Out there, as ...

Ah, phone input UX. Confusing formatting presets, wrong assumptions about country codes, blocked copy-and-pasting — entering a phone number in a form is often more difficult than it should be. So what can we do to design better, more reliable phone input UX? Let's take a clo...

✍️ New post: A Past Tense Word

What I took away from a wonderful Josh Homme interview. And yes, it somehow turned into a post about working on the web again …

https://matthiasott.com/notes/a-past-tense-word

I need to get my battery below 25% before I can replace the display. The best way I could think of: opening the LinkedIn app.😁

Any ideas what I could do while I’m there? Tricking people with a cliffhanger into clicking …more? Posting an AI-generated list of 7 things successful people do before 5am?

Sleazebag

Snake-oil

“sexy”

What does the S in SI *actually* stand for then? 🤔

So … it’s “SI” now? 😂
This is all so comically absurd.

https://youtu.be/-HzHFSxRcro

My iPhone 11 screen broke after all. But you know what? A replacement screen, either refurbished or by JK/NCC, is only about 30-40 €. That’s worth a try – and sounds like fun! Let’s see how long we can keep that thing alive … ♻️🤓🪛

RE: https://mas.to/@skeletor/117379005316119359

“It's pencils down, people. Writing code by hand is no longer an economically viable skill for most programmers at most companies. But the future of making software has never been brighter. Don't you dare black pill this beautiful moment!”

Twenty-five years of writing … congratulations, @adactio! What an achievement – and continued inspiration! 👏💚
https://adactio.com/journal/22781

I’m sure you’ll love that one, @webrocker! 🎸🤗

“Music isn’t about safety when it’s good.”

Rick Beato did the Josh Homme interview 🔥

https://youtu.be/-_WdwJ_4f98

AI will be the end of Tailwind.

Noooooo! I made a huge mistake. I watched a few minutes of the deranged racist‘s AI ramblings in the Ruby World keynote on YouTube – and now my feed is full of that guy … 🤪

I‘d better go watch that Cumberbatch documentary now! 🌍🌱

https://youtu.be/h3mRsvFmWi0

The new Queens of the Stone Age album (scheduled for full release on October 30) is coming together really nicely so far! 👏 For instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAOIpDUDGX4

Thank you so much to everyone who came to my talk at @getkirby’s very first #KirbyKonf! It was a joy to share some thoughts on The Web We Make with such a welcoming audience. 🤗

Here are the slides:

https://noti.st/matthiasott/IQWsYY/the-web-we-make

Thanks again for listening, chatting, and making these two days so special. What a lovely community! 🖤

I've been re-elected to the @w3c Board of Directors for another term:
https://www.w3.org/news/2026/consortium-members-elect-board-of-directors/

Thank you to everyone who voted - the open web only stays open because people show-up!

Now, I'm looking forward to contributing towards W3C's corporate governance for another two years.