Germany hot AF
(“as France”)

Stay safe and hydrated, everyone! 💙

Okay, too late. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@danworrall, ladies and gentlemen:

https://youtu.be/0AxzJ-8n6qY?is=H_8OWVwLQWySD8kl

Still need to record my Jim Lill response video…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@btconf/116761088009942638

Time to check your inbox … 😉

What is it with teachers that they still don’t allow Wikipedia as a source but happily let students cite ChatGPT et al. – “just make sure to also include the prompt in the citation.“

… what?!?!? 🤨😂

Europe, next 7 days: up to 18 °C above normal.

“It’s been hot before.” Sure. And the last ten years are the ten hottest ever recorded. This is the second heatwave in a month – made 3–5 times more likely by climate change. We decide how much worse it gets. #ClimateAction #Vote accordingly

Source: ECMWF HRES via wxcharts.com

Messi doing Undav things. 😁

LMK if you have questions about any piece of equipment on the list or if you’d like me to write about any of them in more detail. 🤗

I just updated my /uses page with all the gear I use for design work, workshops, and audio things. And while I was at it, I replaced all links to Jeff’s online shop with direct links to the respective manufacturer or Thomann.de (💙🇪🇺):

https://matthiasott.com/uses

„Habecks Heiz-Hammer“

You realize that it shows that you used Claude Design, right?

I went to the beautiful little town of Bietigheim today, because my son had a rehearsal with the Youth Philharmonic Ludwigsburg there. Anyway, the old town is lovely. Stunning half-timbered houses, a 14th-century city gate, a music school in an old castle, and also … this. 😳

RE: https://mastodon.social/@getkirby/116736646523833818

PSA: See you there! 🤗

Bundesländer sind cool. 🤘

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

„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.

👀
[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.

✍️ 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

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/

Setting type so big Figma loses track of where the text boxes end. That’s the way. ☺️

@NaN “Server go boinks!” 😂👏

(g💀💀d luck! 🤞🖤)

@webrocker Gutes Spiel! 🤝🤗

What is happening?!?!

🎶 “So can we please be absolutely sure
That there's a mirrorball for me?
Oh, there'd better be a mirrorball …” 🎶🪩

Holy crap! 😯

Wow, 26 students signed up for my Interface Prototyping seminar this semester, starting tomorrow. Let’s see if it will actually be that crowded… 😅 Looking forward to it! 😊

@nice2meatu Wow! Glückwunsch!!!🙌🎉