Matthias Ott

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Matthias Ott
15 Jan 2017 • Matthias Ott

Data loss (also) by JavaScript

Tantek Çelik wrote a post in 2015 called “js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read.”. It was about a fundamental problem regarding sites that depend on JavaScript for rendering content: Indexability. Although search engines got much much better at indexing JS, it still remai...

Matthias Ott
13 Jan 2017 • Matthias Ott

Books I Will Definitely Maybe Read in 2017

It’s that time of year when most people publish their „books I have read“ articles. Tim for example, and also Jeremy. I for myself am what you could call a book taster. There are a lot of books on my shelves that I started reading but somehow never finished. But this year th...

Matthias Ott
11 Jan 2017 • Matthias Ott

Starting to Write Notes

In May 2016, I flipped the switch for the redesign of this site. My last site was never updated once it was online, so I wanted to do things differently this time. Inspired by numerous people who use their web presence to share and promote their thoughts and ideas, I decided...

Matthias Ott
20 Nov 2016 • Matthias Ott

Beyond Tellerrand Berlin 2016

Once again, beyond tellerrand, a great conference about design, development, and all things web, took place in the cold November air of Berlin. After walking over from Bahnhof Friedrichstraße to the Admiralspalast, an historical theater opened in 1910, where the spirit of th...

Matthias Ott
23 Oct 2016 • Matthias Ott

Closing the Gaps

Do you remember when you wrote your first line of HTML? Watching my students sweat blood while I introduce them to the basics of HTML and CSS always reminds me of my teenage self, learning the ropes of HTML back in the 1990s. Although I loved to fiddle around with my compute...

Matthias Ott
16 May 2016 • Matthias Ott

Beyond Tellerrand 2016

Lately, I travelled to Düsseldorf and attended the IndieWebCamp and also beyond tellerrand, a conference about design, development, and all things web. I’ll say it plain: If you never have been at a conference, you should go. If you never have been at beyond tellerrand, you ...

Matthias Ott
06 May 2016 • Matthias Ott

The Art of the Restart

Far too long, we have thought of web projects like rocket launches: You plan, design, and build the thing, maybe you train people how to steer it, and most of all you sweat blood only to be prepared on that magical date: launch day. That one decisive moment when yo...