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  “What's dispiriting is the (lack of) process and care: take someone's carefully crafted work, run it through a machine to wash off the fingerprints, and ship it as your own. This isn't a case of being inspired by something and building on it. It's the opposite of that. It's taking something that worked and making it worse.” @nvie@mastodon.cloud on how Microsoft continvoucly morged his diagram: https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/

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  Fuck the AfD and everyone who voted for them today. You should be ashamed of yourself. Fascist losers. #nazisraus #noAfD

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  Nicht zu früh freuen. Der respahnt bestimmt.

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  You know what we need more of on the Web? Progressive Enchantment.

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  Already looking forward to the Michael Moore documentary about this World Cup which will probably be called Infantino and the Infantile

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  “So, in short: you now have an LLM running on your machine, and any website you visit can make use of it, and whatever processing resources it requires.” The definitive piece on Google participating in the web standards process “the way a bear participates in the ‘camping’ process.”, by @Wilto👏 https://wil.to/posts/googles-prompt-api/

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  Damn, Berlin!! 😍❤️ #fckafd #nazisraus #niewiederistjetzt (Video: Zentrum für politische Schönheit @ Threads)

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  “93 % of blind people have some useful vision.” Molly Barnes (https://www.mollywatt.com) showing an image overlay she drew to illustrate how she sees the world in her a fantastic talk about inclusive design at #bono23. 👏 #a11y

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  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. 💜

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  Twitter wasn’t successful because of great product decisions or the ingenuity of their management. It was successful because of the people who made the platform a place to connect, learn, joke around, and debate together. I got to know almost all of my friends in the web community through Twitter, because Twitter just happened to be the place where we all hung out. Birds of a feather flock together. 💙 It isn’t where you are but who you’re with and what you do that matters.

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  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.

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  Did you know that when you put .rss behind your Mastodon profile URL, you get an RSS feed? 😎 https://mastodon.social/@matthiasott.rss

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  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/

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  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 🎸👏

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  So here‘s what I did to automate cross-posting from Mastodon to Twitter with IFTTT: 1) Connect Twitter 2) Create a new applet 3) Setup a new “RSS Feed - New feed item” trigger 4) for the feed URL use https://yourinstance.name/@yourhandle.atom 5) THEN post a tweet with the content {{EntryContent}} 🎉

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  ✍️ 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

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  “Brevity was always a discipline. Now it’s a statement. When everything around you is excessive by default, choosing fewer words takes courage. It says: I thought about this. I edited. I respected your time more than I needed to show my work.” Wise words from @zeldman 💙 https://zeldman.com/2026/04/15/the-courage-to-stop/

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  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/

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  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/

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  ✍️ New post: Design and Engineering, As One A #longread about a man with a stopwatch, a school in Weimar, and why the gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident. https://matthiasott.com/articles/design-and-engineering-as-one

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  ✍️ New post: To Affin­i­ty and Beyond #blogtober #design #tools #affinity https://matthiasott.com/notes/to-affinity-and-beyond

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  I somehow get the feeling that we will soon feel very lucky to have an open, European social network with Mastodon.

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  ✨🎄 Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar 🎄✨
Day 18: @vectro https://matthiasott.com/notes/independent-type-foundry-advent-calendar-2022-18 #type #design #typography #fonts #foundries

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  New UNSW Sydney research finds vaping likely causes lung and oral cancer: Carcinogens in e-cigarette aerosols show DNA damage, tumours in mice & cellular harm. Please – tell your children, friends, and loved ones who might believe the “vaping is safe" lie of the tobacco industry. 💚 https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2026/03/vaping-likely-to-cause-cancer-new-findings

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  Typography nerds, I need your opinion! (And help 🙏) Channeling your inner Robert Bringhurst – how would you write a percentage in English correctly?

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  ✍️ New article: Webspace Invaders 👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾 https://matthiasott.com/articles/webspace-invaders

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  Quick reminder, especially if you’re a freelancer or developer using Free/Pro/Pro+ plans for client work: Opt out of GitHub using your data for AI model training before April 24 (seriously, wtf that this isn’t opt-in!). https://github.com/settings/copilot/features#copilot-telemetry-policy

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  I finally did it: I now have a speaking page on my site. 🎤🎉 If you’re looking for someone to talk about design, the web, CSS, accessibility, or the independent web at your event, that’s where you’ll find what I do, what I’ve spoken about, and how to get in touch: https://matthiasott.com/speaking

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  Webmentions can fail for all kinds of reasons – broken microformats, unreachable sources, flaky CDNs – and debugging them from log files is cumbersome. So I added a new “Failed Webmentions” section to the Craft CMS plugin’s control panel that shows what went wrong. Already works on my machine™ 😁

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  “Amidst all the commoditization there are small human spaces out there, waiting to be discovered, with people working diligently and with care in them. […] That's enough. It always was.” Beautiful post by @tbaxter 👏 https://another.rodeo/artisanal-web/