Matthias Ott
@matthiasott.com
Independent designer + web design engineer, teacher, speaker. Interface Prototyping at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design. UX, prototyping, & design engineering workshops.
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Matthias Ott
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· May 16
Matthias Ott – Painting With the Web – beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 20025
YouTube video by beyond tellerrand
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Last week, I had the immense honor of speaking at one of my favorite events, @beyondtellerrand.com. (🤯)
My talk “Painting With the Web” is now available on YouTube. I hope you like it! 🤗💚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pq7...
My talk “Painting With the Web” is now available on YouTube. I hope you like it! 🤗💚
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pq7...
🎻 The best recording ever of Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 is from 1962. The GOAT Jascha Heifetz with unparalleled precision, clarity, and musicality. And that transition from the first into the second movement… 🤯
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw7o...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw7o...
Bruch Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor,Op.26(Heifetz,Sargent 1962)
YouTube video by musizieren
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January 16, 2026 at 11:45 AM
🎻 The best recording ever of Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 is from 1962. The GOAT Jascha Heifetz with unparalleled precision, clarity, and musicality. And that transition from the first into the second movement… 🤯
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw7o...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw7o...
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Firefox 147 just landed & it's pretty huge in terms of web features:
🎉 CSS anchor positioning
🎉 The navigation API
🎉 View transition types
🎉 Brotli support in Compression/DecompressionStream
🎉 CSS module imports
And more!
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/147
🎉 CSS anchor positioning
🎉 The navigation API
🎉 View transition types
🎉 Brotli support in Compression/DecompressionStream
🎉 CSS module imports
And more!
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/147
Firefox 147 release notes for developers (Beta) - Mozilla | MDN
This article provides information about the changes in Firefox 147 that affect developers.
Firefox 147 is the current Beta version of Firefox and ships on January 13, 2026.
developer.mozilla.org
January 13, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Firefox 147 just landed & it's pretty huge in terms of web features:
🎉 CSS anchor positioning
🎉 The navigation API
🎉 View transition types
🎉 Brotli support in Compression/DecompressionStream
🎉 CSS module imports
And more!
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/147
🎉 CSS anchor positioning
🎉 The navigation API
🎉 View transition types
🎉 Brotli support in Compression/DecompressionStream
🎉 CSS module imports
And more!
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/147
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CSS Day is returning! cssday.nl
We will open #cssday ticket sales this month. Early-bird tickets will be announced first via our newsletter cssday.nl/subscribe; subscribe for the most affordable prices.
We will open #cssday ticket sales this month. Early-bird tickets will be announced first via our newsletter cssday.nl/subscribe; subscribe for the most affordable prices.
CSS Day 2026, 11th & 12th of June, Amsterdam
CSS Day is the conference for CSS designers, developers, spec writers, and browser vendors.
cssday.nl
January 14, 2026 at 10:04 AM
CSS Day is returning! cssday.nl
We will open #cssday ticket sales this month. Early-bird tickets will be announced first via our newsletter cssday.nl/subscribe; subscribe for the most affordable prices.
We will open #cssday ticket sales this month. Early-bird tickets will be announced first via our newsletter cssday.nl/subscribe; subscribe for the most affordable prices.
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OK. I wanted to publish all speakers for Düsseldorf 2026 at once, but some need too much time to finally confirm. ;) So here is a batch of four for this week. Oh I can't wait! #speakers #btconf #dusseldorf2026
More soon!
beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusse...
More soon!
beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusse...
Speakers at beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf 2026
beyond tellerrand is the affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet. Taking place in Düsseldorf and Berlin these days with 500+ attendees each in a renowned, familiar and frien...
beyondtellerrand.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:46 AM
OK. I wanted to publish all speakers for Düsseldorf 2026 at once, but some need too much time to finally confirm. ;) So here is a batch of four for this week. Oh I can't wait! #speakers #btconf #dusseldorf2026
More soon!
beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusse...
More soon!
beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusse...
I also have this list of feeds of personal sites: github.com/matthiasott/...
Wrote a bit about it a while ago:
matthiasott.com/notes/rss-fe...
Wrote a bit about it a while ago:
matthiasott.com/notes/rss-fe...
My RSS Feed Collection of Personal Websites · Matthias Ott
Curated collection of RSS feeds from personal websites and independent creators worth following.
matthiasott.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I also have this list of feeds of personal sites: github.com/matthiasott/...
Wrote a bit about it a while ago:
matthiasott.com/notes/rss-fe...
Wrote a bit about it a while ago:
matthiasott.com/notes/rss-fe...
“At this point they had to convince Claude—which is extensively trained to avoid harmful behaviors—to engage in the attack. They did so by jailbreaking it, effectively tricking it to bypass its guardrails.”
Reminds me of this great interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nn0...
Reminds me of this great interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nn0...
How Afraid of the AI Apocalypse Should We Be? | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
www.youtube.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:47 PM
“At this point they had to convince Claude—which is extensively trained to avoid harmful behaviors—to engage in the attack. They did so by jailbreaking it, effectively tricking it to bypass its guardrails.”
Reminds me of this great interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nn0...
Reminds me of this great interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nn0...
“Most significantly, this marks the first documented case of agentic AI successfully obtaining access to confirmed high-value targets for intelligence collection, including major technology corporations and government agencies.” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
January 7, 2026 at 2:38 PM
“Most significantly, this marks the first documented case of agentic AI successfully obtaining access to confirmed high-value targets for intelligence collection, including major technology corporations and government agencies.” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“The actor achieved what we believe is the first documented case of a cyberattack largely executed without human intervention at scale—the AI autonomously discovered vulnerabilities in targets.”
This is fine. 🔥
www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...
This is fine. 🔥
www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...
Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
A report describing an a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack
www.anthropic.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:38 PM
“The actor achieved what we believe is the first documented case of a cyberattack largely executed without human intervention at scale—the AI autonomously discovered vulnerabilities in targets.”
This is fine. 🔥
www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...
This is fine. 🔥
www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...
(Nothing to see here, @davatron5000.bsky.social)
January 7, 2026 at 2:07 PM
(Nothing to see here, @davatron5000.bsky.social)
“Share information, freely. Blog.”
👏, @jayhoffmann.bsky.social
thehistoryoftheweb.com/information-...
👏, @jayhoffmann.bsky.social
thehistoryoftheweb.com/information-...
Information is still free - The History of the Web
Blogging is so fundamentally native to the web that twenty years of commoditization has left it relatively untouched. We share information, freely.
thehistoryoftheweb.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:05 PM
“Share information, freely. Blog.”
👏, @jayhoffmann.bsky.social
thehistoryoftheweb.com/information-...
👏, @jayhoffmann.bsky.social
thehistoryoftheweb.com/information-...
But honestly, Dave. After 40, the gym breaks you. Tai Chi heals your body and soul and makes you live longer. It takes just seven minutes a day – and your wife won’t believe your results.
January 6, 2026 at 10:02 PM
But honestly, Dave. After 40, the gym breaks you. Tai Chi heals your body and soul and makes you live longer. It takes just seven minutes a day – and your wife won’t believe your results.
I really wonder how long it takes a beginner like me to go from beer belly to get ripped again with Tai Chi.
I bet that by the end of November, my family won’t even recognize me.
I bet that by the end of November, my family won’t even recognize me.
January 6, 2026 at 8:29 PM
I really wonder how long it takes a beginner like me to go from beer belly to get ripped again with Tai Chi.
I bet that by the end of November, my family won’t even recognize me.
I bet that by the end of November, my family won’t even recognize me.
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Started blogging in ’95. Nearly all site’s my content from the past 30 years is still up. Sadly, the same can’t be said for most third-party content I linked to. Happily, the Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer solves much of this.
wordpress.org/plugins/inte...
wordpress.org/plugins/inte...
Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer
Automatically fix broken links by replacing them with archived versions from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
wordpress.org
January 5, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Started blogging in ’95. Nearly all site’s my content from the past 30 years is still up. Sadly, the same can’t be said for most third-party content I linked to. Happily, the Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer solves much of this.
wordpress.org/plugins/inte...
wordpress.org/plugins/inte...
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New #FluidType by @matthiasott.com approach that deals with the issue of users changing their base font: buff.ly/OeXELrC
By introducing a damping factor, if the base font gets larger, the increase per step gets smaller avoiding overly large font sizes. Be aware of currently limited browser support
By introducing a damping factor, if the base font gets larger, the increase per step gets smaller avoiding overly large font sizes. Be aware of currently limited browser support
Compressed Fluid Typography · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.
buff.ly
January 5, 2026 at 5:33 PM
New #FluidType by @matthiasott.com approach that deals with the issue of users changing their base font: buff.ly/OeXELrC
By introducing a damping factor, if the base font gets larger, the increase per step gets smaller avoiding overly large font sizes. Be aware of currently limited browser support
By introducing a damping factor, if the base font gets larger, the increase per step gets smaller avoiding overly large font sizes. Be aware of currently limited browser support
I ordered it immediately but haven’t read it yet, tbh… Will let you know when I finally do! 🤗
January 6, 2026 at 8:02 PM
I ordered it immediately but haven’t read it yet, tbh… Will let you know when I finally do! 🤗
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You should leave Substack in 2026, because they platform fascists regularly, but even before that I am *begging* you to stop referring to your writing as "my Substack" because why give them that agency. It's your writing, your posts, your words, on their platform.
January 3, 2026 at 3:54 AM
You should leave Substack in 2026, because they platform fascists regularly, but even before that I am *begging* you to stop referring to your writing as "my Substack" because why give them that agency. It's your writing, your posts, your words, on their platform.
Note to self: if you block all the bots™, remember to not block archive.org_bot. Especially if you even wrote a Craft CMS plugin that notifies the Wayback Machine to crawl new posts on your site … 🤦♂️
January 1, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Note to self: if you block all the bots™, remember to not block archive.org_bot. Especially if you even wrote a Craft CMS plugin that notifies the Wayback Machine to crawl new posts on your site … 🤦♂️
Oh, THE LÄND FÄNSHOP got häcked.
January 1, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Oh, THE LÄND FÄNSHOP got häcked.
(Musste ich natürlich nachschlagen)
December 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
(Musste ich natürlich nachschlagen)
Ah, habemus calefactio olei
December 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Ah, habemus calefactio olei