Heading home after three days full of countless interesting and fun conversations with wonderful humans, meeting old and making new friends at @btconf. My head is bursting with ideas and creative energy from all of this. A truly special event in every regard! Thank you everyone! 💚🙏🤗 #btconf

Thanks for having me, #btconf. It was an honor! 🙏😊💚

Here are the slides for my talk
Painting With the Web

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

😍 #btconf

Hallo Düsseldorf! ☀️

@btconf Oh, come on, Deutsche Bahn… I said “Off to #btconf!”… pleeeeease!🥹

Off to @btconf! 🎉🤗🙌 I can’t wait!

GSAP is now free. 😍
https://gsap.com/blog/3-13/

By the way: now is the time to get your ticket for one of Europe’s finest conferences on art, design, creativity, the Web, and so much more. A genuinely fantastic experience every single time – inspiring, empowering, and with a lovely, inclusive community! ☺️
https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2025/tickets

Working on my talk for @btconf (🙀😁) and can’t wait to see so many good friends again! 💚 Who of you will be in Düsseldorf in less than three weeks? 👋

Serious question: what does a “Global Head of AI” do at an agency and why does it somehow feel like it is just a regular creative director with a cringey job title? 🥴

Hear me out: a children’s book called “The Tariffalo” 🤔

Well poisoned, @heydon! ☺️https://heydonworks.com/article/poisoning-well/

@jasonsantamaria is back at blogging and I’m delighted to hear he decided to give @getkirby a try. 👏
Welcome back and have fun, Jason! 🤗
https://jasonsantamaria.com/blog/once-again-from-the-top

I’m currently working on a project where the devs obviously had no idea about how to implement responsive images correctly. It’s a wild mix of faulty media, srcset, sizes, and size(?) attributes on img and source tags that really feels like guesswork. (This is now a 10-year-old technology, btw…)

What's the best article (or video, @kevinpowell? 😁) about responsive images you know?

My favs:
@mdn – https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Responsive_images

@eeeps – https://ericportis.com/posts/2014/srcset-sizes/

@grigs –
https://cloudfour.com/thinks/responsive-images-101-definitions/

Isn’t it astonishing that after all those decades of global trade, there still isn’t a safety mechanism in place that protects the world economy – and our collective wealth – from the damaging effects of one country electing an erratic, ignorant idiot for president?

@kevinpowell And regarding the tab order/source order issue: did you see @rachelandrew‘s super interesting talk at @css__cafe, Kevin?
That might answer a few of your questions – and potentially also bring up new ones, for another podcast episode, maybe? 😉

https://youtu.be/cJiLnN9EUlI?si=BJ4O-ClYS1E_4Ifh

@kevinpowell I fully (!) agree that it makes sense to name properties in a more familiar way, e.g. `item-wrap` instead of `item-cross` superceding `flex-wrap`. Tim Berners-Lee knew this as well when he created HTML: a lot of elements were already familiar to people using SGML. Make it as frictionless as possible for people to adopt new things, because, as @adactio would say, humans are allergic to change.

Loved this episode of @kevinpowell‘s podcast in which he thinks out loud about a new unified approach to #CSS layout that is currently emerging.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCnwX2QXTxk

… sneak peek … 🫣

(Grab one of the last tickets for #btconf here: 👉 https://beyondtellerrand.com)

Prototyping … 😉 #OwnYourWeb

Actually, I took that photo a few days ago. That’s how that tree looks today… 🤯🌸

Good morning! ☀️😌

I mean … just start here and close your eyes. 😌
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqtLVvoXLig&t=1069s

Hadelich is so good, he gets a spontaneous applause after the first movement of Brahms’s violin concerto. Incredible playing.

Just in case you also prefer riffs over tariffs … 😁
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqtLVvoXLig

What a beautiful, outstanding performance by Augustin Hadelich. 🎻😌
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_3da0fPLQs

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https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/hegseth-waltz-gabbard-private-data-and-passwords-of-senior-u-s-security-officials-found-online-a-14221f90-e5c2-48e5-bc63-10b705521fb7

Gemini says I should ”replace ’dumb information recycling machine’ with more neutral terms: This avoids unnecessarily aggressive language and focuses on the functional aspects of the technology.”
😉