Ping … hello? …… is this … the internet? 😁

… the fibre internet?

(I don’t feel any difference 😂)

🥁 … Ich klicke jetzt mal auf
„Jetzt einrichten“

Glasfaser-News! ✨ Letzte Woche kamen doch tatsächlich (nach erneuten Telefonaten meinerseits) noch mal zwei Techniker bei uns vorbei um den Anschluss, der im Februar mit APL montiert wurde, endgültig zu aktivieren.

Sie stecken also ihr Modem an – es macht keinen Mucks. Auch nicht an einer anderen Steckdose, auch nicht mit einem anderen Netzteil.

„Wir kommen nächste Woche noch mal.”

🥹

Aber jetzt kommt’s: Heute waren sie dann tatsächlich noch mal da und … diesmal lief alles glatt. Der Glasfaser-Anschluss ist aktiviert! 🎉

Jetzt muss nur noch ich die Einrichtung mit meinem Modem abschließen. Das läuft sicher jetzt komplett problemlos durch … 🫣🤞

Seeing the DFB-Pokal final through the refcam is such an amazing perspective. Great stuff! 👏
(Also: 🥳🏆🤍♥️)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ItflsaeSKA

🏆🤍♥️

In other news, I can’t concentrate because tomorrow ………… 😱🤍♥️ #VfB #dfbpokal #wirholendenpokal

Alright, so … websites.

Just gave @penpot a try for a project. It is much more mature than I had expected! But there are still quite a few bugs, quirks, and inconsistencies that make working with it very cumbersome. Still a way to go until this is a serious alternative to #Figma IMO.

Just to name just a few bugs: text is suddenly jumping to different positions, some gradients are flipped in the opposite direction while editing, I get sudden color changes for multiple elements although I was changing the color for just one element, and my collaborator can’t see images I added to the layout. Also, the color picker just stopped working completely in my project – whenever I want to pick a color, Penpot crashes.

And as the project has grown a little, zooming and panning is now starting to get really laggy… 😕

Hope the team fixes most of those issues quickly, because overall it definitely is an impressive open-source tool. 👏💚

As heard on @shoptalkshow 😘 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yetf8sTTUNE

“This is not mixing!”

@danworrall is back and reviews an over-marketed AI-powered channel strip audio plugin that claims to do the hard work for you so that “you’ll effortlessly get your mixes spot-on 100% of the time”…

How do you expect it to end? 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkWJj79HFwUa

Alright, so … websites.

… done! ✅ 🥳

Enjoying my Freelancer’s Sunday™ aka doing the taxes … 🫠😂

@webrocker 😅🦅🖤

And this is probably @matuzo‘s favorite slide… 🤫😉

(Once again, I’m sorry you had to see this, @jpamental! 😆)

Thanks to @florianziegler for taking so many amazing photos at @btconf last week! 📷🖤😍

https://beyondtellerrand.com/photos/dusseldorf-2025

Last week, I had the immense honor of speaking at one of my favorite events, @btconf. (🤯)

My talk “Painting With the Web” is now available on YouTube. I hope you like it! 🤗💚

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pq7VqNrtk4

And if you are a person who likes slides, here are the slides for the talk. 😁

https://noti.st/matthiasott/31ArQI

“Semantics should be defined in HTML. And styles and visual affordances should follow from there.”

An incredibly thorough and important post by @SaraSoueidan about the current state of CSS carousel (in)accessibility. 👏

tl;dr – don’t use them (yet?)
#a11y #css

https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-carousels-accessibility/

“Do you think that’s funny?”

“Yes. 😁”

Good morning, @matuzo! I found a button for your collection. 😍 What do you think? 😁

[Hydrated]

Figma (Sites) creating inaccessible, non-semantic div soup? I’m not surprised at all. That’s basically the main point of the talk I just gave at #btconf. Figma is for painting beautiful pictures of websites. Not for making websites. We make websites with semantic HTML, declarative CSS, JavaScript for the things only JavaScript can do, and a bit of ARIA. That’s how this medium works. That’s the material.

👀 CC @heydon

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-witness-lead-literally-turn-into-gold-in-the-large-hadron-collider

“I couldn't help but feel struck by the power of the good people that are somehow still designing and building this future together. This is an industry packed with sensitive, thoughtful, sharp, talented people who still give a shit about how to make things right.”
— Thomas Rumbold 🖤✊
https://terminal.ahumanfuture.co/posts/2025-05-06/the-narrow-road-to-the-deep-north/

Also, what a quote:

“We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
— Ursula K. Le Guin