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

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/