Matthias Ott
@matthiasott
Independent designer + web design engineer, teacher, speaker. Interface Prototyping at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design. UX, prototyping, & design engineering workshops. 📧 Newsletter: 💻 Website:
It was such a pleasure to see @andremichelle.bsky.social talk about his journey and #openDAW again at #T3DD2026 – mind blown a second time! 🤯😁👏
A talk about #accessibility at #T3DD2026! 👏 Kai Grosz spreading the word that … a <div> is not a <button> 🎉 (😉 @matuzo.at)
Aaand off to TYPO3 Developer Days Karlsruhe! 🚝 Looking forward to meeting a lot of new friends there – and @marcthiele.com and @andremichelle.bsky.social 🤗🎉 #T3DD26 #T3DD
We had a very special weekend. Two concerts with a 15-year-old assistant concertmaster ❤️ and his violin, surrounded by an orchestra of talented young musicians, all playing together at a level that was pure joy to watch – and hear! ☺️
Europe, next 7 days: up to 18 °C above normal. “It's been hot before.” Sure. And the last ten years are the ten hottest ever recorded. It’s the second heatwave in a month – made 3–5 times more likely by climate change. We decide how much worse it gets. #ClimateAction Source: ECMWF via wxcharts.com
While you’re here, Dave … he had another rehearsal yesterday in a town called Korntal and while we were waiting for him to finish, I went to the playground with my daughter. And there I found this: 🤔😁
I went to the beautiful little town of Bietigheim today, because my son had a rehearsal with the Youth Philharmonic Ludwigsburg there. Anyway, the old town is lovely. Stunning half-timbered houses, a 14th-century city gate, a music school in an old castle, and also … this. 😳
🎶 “So can we please be absolutely sure That there's a mirrorball for me? Oh, there'd better be a mirrorball …” 🎶🪩 Holy crap! 😯
Wait until you see all the influencer dollars I make with the Carbon ads on my site! 🤑 Where’s that email again …… ah, here:
What a journey – 8-year-old Matthias (aka Powerman⚡️) loved every bit of it! @signalnoise.com showing at #btconf how early influences, side projects, and persistent curiosity ultimately shaped his bold, colorful creative identity. 💜
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 André Michelle 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.com 🎸👏
Found the #CSS table with @ichimnetz.com, @utilitybend.com, and @bram.us at #btconf! 🙌
A talk full of fun experiments and nerdy rabbit holes by @html5test.com 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.bsky.social at #btconf 👏 An important reminder that making the world less ugly and broken takes true imagination and also a bit of … madness.
Aaand off to #btconf! 🎉🥳 (And of course it’s proper @marcthiele.com weather™ ☀️) See you later in Düsseldorf!
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 …
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!). github.com/settings/cop...