✍️ New post: Blogtober 2025 – Day 1

This will be fun! 🎉🤩
#blogtober #writing #blogging #websites

https://matthiasott.com/notes/blogtober-2025-day-01

Oh! Is it #blogtober already? 😅

Started sorting a few audio plugins into a voice chain – and ended up sorting compressors by hardware topology/type and year … 🫣 But at least I’m learning a lot about the different types of compression, right…right? 😅

It was foggy AF this morning.

“as fog” 🤓

Wait! I recognize that guy! That’s the runner from the Sound City Studios documentary.

Looks like he ended up as a producer for the Foo Fighters, Deftones, and some band called “Rush”.

Yet another amazing interview by Rick Beato:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQognzPVOIo

😙🎶 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS4RpBR0Zn0

😙🎶 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt_0zxgXoUU

😙🎶 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=010KyIQjkTk

😙🎶 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqJAnQTwmJs

😙🎶 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YodzjpvrtJQ

😙🎶 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3CGu0ezd68

😙🎶 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqbEsS5kFb8

So this happened … 🪚🔨🤩

Now I need more 19" audio gear. 😂
Like (one day…) the amazing SPL Channel One Mk3 😍 https://spl.audio/en/spl-produkt/channel-one-mk3/

🤔 Is there a tool that lets you check the HTML heading levels of a whole website (with all pages) and outputs a list of all pages with problems. Similar to pa11y, but limited to heading levels…? #a11y #html

Five years ago, I put my iPhone 11 in a case and have been using it since then without any issues. None of my previous phones ever lasted that long. It’s really a shame that Apple is now giving gold bars to wannabe sun kings … 😞

@webrocker Na dann mal viel Spaß! 🦅😁

Had an amazing time speaking about Web Design Engineering at @smashingconf Freiburg last week! 🎉 It was an honour to be invited and to meet so many wonderful people and good friends there – a truly smashing experience! Thank you, everyone! 🤗💚🎈

📸 Photos by @marcthiele

There are few investments more valuable than a set of good speakers and headphones. It makes such a vast difference when you’re listening to your favourite music every day. 😍🎶

My setup atm:
🎧 Austrian Audio Hi-X60
https://austrian.audio/product/hi-x60/
🔈 ADAM Audio T5V
https://www.adam-audio.com/en/t-series/t5v/

What audio gear do you love most?

We all only have this one life. There’s no reason to hold back and sell yourself short, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(I encourage you to do the same, regardless of where you are in your life – show your best work, show your experience! 💚)

Ist das diese „Erhöhung der Pendlerpauschale“? 🤔
https://ard.social/@tagesschau/115215406456958909

@davatron5000 @chriscoyier Thanks for the shout-out on the @shoptalkshow! 🧡🤗 This made my day – especially seeing your face light up with wonder, Chris! 😁🎛️

Finally found a really good solution for placing a display directly below my camera (with the Elgato Prompter attached to it) so that I can still move my desk up and down without covering the cam: I mounted a cheap monitor arm to a light stand. 🤓

Where do people go to host video content these days, let’s say for an online course? Asking for a friend, of course… 😉

What an amazing finish at the right time by Schröder! 🤩🏀🇩🇪

Prototyping with my desk setup a bit. I think I like it. 🤔 Would mean more space directly in front of me and I could also add rack strips and mount 19" gear like my dbx 286s within arm’s reach.

In case you missed it: This sale is still on … just unreal value for the money.
https://mastodon.social/@matthiasott/115094511876122038

🎧 Listening (at 1.5x speed … 😅) to a wonderful conversation of two of my favourite people: @kevinpowell navigating the world of web #accessibility with @SaraSoueidan 👏 #webdev #a11y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndGKjhzmLXc