Sitting on my train home from @btconf – once again so inspired, so grateful, so full of ideas. What an incredible few days. Thank you, @marcthiele 💚, for creating something so special year after year after year! And thank you to every old and new friend I got to meet, talk with, and hug. 🤗 Safe travels!

What a journey – 8-year-old Matthias (aka Powerman⚡️) loved every bit of it! @Signalnoise showing at #btconf how early influences, side projects, and persistent curiosity ultimately shaped his bold, colorful creative identity. 💜

Loved the practical, hands-on talk by @bramus at #btconf on the View Transitions API. #CSS and JS working together to make the web feel even more native and improve UX – that’s web design engineering at work. 👏☺️

Beautiful type talk by Kimya Gandhi (motaitalic.com) full of amazing Devanagari letterforms shaped by history, culture, and context. 🤩 #btconf

Incredible day-2 opener by @andremichelle at #btconf, who condensed >25 years of building music software into his in-browser openDAW – a case for openness … and persistence. Including a 🤘 live performance by @bastianallgeier 🎸👏

Found the #CSS table with @nilsbinder, @utilitybend, and @bramus at #btconf! 🙌

A talk full of fun experiments and nerdy rabbit holes by @html5test at #btconf, dragging the web out of the browser and into oscilloscopes, laser projectors, and (where legal) flamethrowers. And all of that with the not-a-programming-language – CSS 🤩🔥

Thoughtful opening talk by @reichenstein at #btconf 👏
An important reminder that making the world less ugly and broken takes true imagination and also a bit of … madness.

Here we go 🖤 #btconf

Hallo Düsseldorf! 🙌☀️

In case you missed it – and still need something to read this Sunday:

Issue 18 of #OwnYourWeb is out. ✨

Curators.

Hope you like it! 🤗
https://newsletter.ownyourweb.site/archive/own-your-web-issue-18-curators/

Leaving Stuttgart on time!🤞

Aaand off to #btconf! 🎉🥳
(And of course it’s proper @marcthiele weather™ ☀️)
See you later in Düsseldorf!

Wann ist eigentlich endlich Schluss mit der Politik für Reiche Fossile?

✍️ New post: At Machine Speed

A few thoughts about @getkirby’s recent security update and what it means for all of us that AI is now finding vulnerabilities “at machine speed” …

https://matthiasott.com/notes/at-machine-speed

Schon wieder! 🤍♥️😁 #VfBSCF

“So what you’re doing is actually more valuable than what I do: you’re doing the things only humans are good at.”

Yeah, that’s called “actual intelligence”. 😉

The first reply to my newsletter issue on AI flooding the web and the value of human curation is … by a Chinese LLM. 😂✌️Well played …

Great to see that @btconf is almost sold out! 🎉🖤

Again: Who’s going to be there, too? Hands up! 🤚

Issue 18 of #OwnYourWeb is out. ✨

Curators.

✷ Personal site of the (more or less every other) week by @henry ✷

With links to posts and tools by
@anarodrigues, @rachelandrew, @adactio, @anildash, @davatron5000, @manton, @robin, and @zeldman
Thank you all for keeping the open web alive! ✊🎉

https://newsletter.ownyourweb.site/archive/own-your-web-issue-18-curators/

I wasn’t quite satisfied with it yet … so I’ll send out the issue a bit later. Which means there is still more time to sign up! 🎉😜

👉 https://matthiasott.com/newsletter

The agents (of non-enterprise customers) were burning too much money: GitHub tightens usage limits, removes Opus from the Pro plan, and pauses new sign-ups for Copilot individual plans.

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-github-copilot-individual-plans/

It’s been a while… but how about a new #OwnYourWeb newsletter issue, going out tomorrow? 😊

https://matthiasott.com/newsletter

Even Claude says this is bad. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe you should have asked your country of geniuses in a vending machine before deploying this… 😉

Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine:

#Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/

Alles Taktik 😬

Alles Taktik. Wir wiegen sie in Sicherheit.

Realmadridbesiegerbesieger 🤍♥️

If you feel like flagging the analytics subdomain of someone’s personal website on various DNS blocklists, at least take the time to look up what Plausible analytics is and why a cookie banner might not be needed before labelling it as "BREAKS EU LAW!" *sigh* 🙄

Also: there are only a few tickets left for what might just be Europe’s finest conference on design, creativity, and the Web. ✨ Trust me: this one’s genuinely special. The kind of event that will change you and your perspectives. 🖤

https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2026