While Silicon Valley is training their models on everybody’s copyrighted content and seems to get away with it, UMG is obviously using AI to flood YouTubers with automated copyright claims. Including people like Rick Beato who is doing interviews with the musicians who wrote those songs and talk about them. What does UMG think happens after people watch those videos? Exactly. They open Spotify and listen to the artist. It’s free advertising to >5 million subscribers.
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I just arrived at Them Crooked Vultures.
🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🔥😮
Those recurring, intrusive popups in Photoshop and Illustrator are driving me nuts tbh! You’re working and want to get stuff done quickly with a pro tool – but suddenly, your mind needs to process a “useful” tip about how to use the brush tool? WTF. 😂
I haven't found a way to turn them off other than turning off the contextual task bar completely…
Alright, VfB! Let’s do Chrystal Palace things! 😁🤍❤️
Do you use Shiki (https://shiki.matsu.io) or Prism (https://prismjs.com) for syntax highlighting?
I’ve been using Prism on my site for years now – any reasons for why it could make sense to switch?
So they are really trying to replace the Dollar with crypto, huh? 🧐 That’ll be quite the change …
Dave Grohl’s Sound City documentary is pretty amazing! 🥁🎸😍
(And there’s even the real Rupert Neve in it.)
Where is #CSS subflex when you need it? 😁
Edit: Even More Synths! 🥳
https://matthiasott.com/notes/best-free-synthesizer-vst-plugins-in-2025
Or maybe option D – titles with a short summary ?
I just love this section at the end of your journal entries, @adactio! 🤩
If you’re thinking about buying #audio #plugins to improve the sound of your voice recordings or music, don’t make the same mistake I made – don’t buy Waves. Buy Toneboosters, Kiive, Klanghelm, Tokyo Dawn Labs, Fuse Audio Labs, Kazrog, Noiseash, et al.
And, of course, try out all the fantastic free plugins out there first! You might not need to spend any (or at least very little) money on plugins at all… 😉
Maybe I should write a few blog posts about the best free and paid plugins 🤔
… aaaand two months after the warranty expired, the Bosch CityMower is dead. 😔 I had mustered all the choice-supportive bias that’s in me to make me believe for a little while that although the thing felt like plastic trash, it is “lightweight” and that “it’s a Bosch.” I should have known better … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
✍️ New post: Best Free Synthesizer Plugins in 2025
Not your usual web design or development-related post. But that's what personal websites are for, right? 😉🎶🎹
https://matthiasott.com/notes/best-free-synthesizer-vst-plugins-in-2025
It sparkles on my machine. 😁🪄✨
CC @flogehring 😉
It’s alive! 🧟♂️🎉😍 (kinda)
It's a Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not day over here … 🎶🥁🎸
I can’t wait to bring this thing to life! 😁✨
Any ideas for what else I should add? (I already know this will get out of hand quickly … 😂)
I’m writing again… it’s been a while.
My favourite sentence of the post so far:
“And naturally, you also want to avoid FART.” ☺️
In case you missed it: This September will be … smashing! 😻💚
@smashingconf is coming back to Freiburg on September 8–11, and I’m thrilled and honoured (and a bit baffled) to be part of this incredible lineup! Get your tickets, friends! 🔥😁
https://smashingconf.com/freiburg-2025/speakers/matthias-ott
Ha! 😁🎚️☀️
Lovely. First task of the day: doing “just” a few small CSS changes in a client project I haven't touched in about 5 years.
Alright…
➜ nvm use
Found '.nvmrc' with version <8.6.0>
N/A: version "v8.6.0" is not yet installed.
I already know where this is going …… 🫠😂
➜ npm install
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
gyp ERR!
🤘
Howdy! 🤓 How do you all handle native #CSS Nesting at the moment? Are you using it already? And if so, are you just targeting newer browsers that support it? Or are you using PostCSS, for example?
Asking for a friend who has reduced his build process to the max (nothing but a little esbuild script) and is now hesitating to add PostCSS again… 😉
Watched a few highlight videos from the Women’s EURO with my daughter.
“They’re actually playing better than the men.”
🥰