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. 📧 Newsletter: https://ownyourweb.site 💻 Website: https://matthiasott.com
20 November. One evening. Rob Draper and @nadiehbremer.com … if you consider coming, don't wait too long anymore. Just a handful of spots left. beyondtellerrand.com/events/berli...
beyond tellerrand in Berlin - 20 Nov 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
He’s just such a brilliant rhetorician. That build-up, the climax, followed by those punches at the end that make everyone go “hell yeah!!” *chef’s kiss* 🤌🍰
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago"The president wasn't even mad about the Saddam Hussein comparison! But he was very upset about the Cheesecake Factory" -- here's Obama's full riff about the "phony outrage" over his Trump/Cheesecake Factory comments and how it illustrates that "these are not serious people"
Queens of the Stone Age just released one last single before their new album drops tomorrow. And that guy on the drums seems to really know what he’s doing. So punchy! 😁🥁 youtu.be/p61_ZkIiND0
Queens of the Stone Age - Run Away From the Mob (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Queens Of The Stone Age
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We've already lost so many talented educators, and most of those still here are struggling to some degree. If you value what they do, especially any smaller creators/educators, reach out to them in some way and let them know. It'll mean more to them than you might imagine.
If you needed a win as badly as I have lately, mark this one down: CSS-Tricks is returning as an independent publication. Spread the word. wil.to/posts/taking...
Taking Back CSS-Tricks
We all needed a win.
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Yessssssss!! Go @geoffgraham.me! 🫶🔥👏
CSS-Tricks*@css-tricks.com · 7d agoCSS-Tricks has a new owner! Yes, I've got the keys to the castle, so to speak. And, even after 12 years of working on the site, I'll admit I'm a little overwhelmed and nervous about that. https://css-tricks.com/css-tricks-has-a-new-owner/
Happy 25th Birthday Windows XP! On October 25, 2001, Microsoft released Windows XP and began a new era of Windows operating systems.
Brace yourselves for the true horrors of AI-generated Halloween … 🎃😱
We are approaching the warmest global surface air temperature anomaly on record (1.15C on Nov 18 2023) as record El Niño approaches peak: pulse.climate.copernicus.eu
We’re going to see this tonight … 🤩🎻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_3d...
Client’s sending half-baked prototypes again and asking if they can just add them to the site themselves. Thanks, Dario!
My first reaction to #php2shell was: “Dang, that’s the thing with running your own VPS – you have to keep everything up to date yourself… 😅” But: my own site is already running on #PHP 8.4.27.
Again, those security releases PHP just shipped are just … 🤯 Those two bugs let anyone run their own code on your server with a single crafted request: no login needed, and it happens before your CMS or framework even starts. And proof-of-concept exploits are already circulating … 🧵
*me trying to get out of a meeting* “i have to go patch my php”
this is the fix for that PHP issue, somehow I think we haven't heard the last of this
Update your PHPs, everyone: “PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 fix two critical vulnerabilities that can allow unauthenticated remote code execution. All PHP users are strongly encouraged to update immediately.” www.php.net/archive/2026...
PHP: News Archive - 2026
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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Queens of the Stone Age’s “Alive in the Catacombs” really is a recording for the ages. Literally. (Also: 💀 Skull warning! Look up the Catacombs of Paris if you’re wondering about the setting …) www.youtube.com/watch?v=G14L...
Queens of the Stone Age - Alive in the Catacombs
YouTube video by Queens Of The Stone Age
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Very much looking forward to this one. 15 years #btconf. 20th November. Join us! beyondtellerrand.com/blog/fifteen...
Fifteen! – celebrating fifteen years of beyond tellerrand in Berlin
Fifteen years of beyond tellerrand, to the day: one evening in Berlin, 20 November, with Rob Draper, Nadieh Bremer and lots of conversations.
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David Bowie died *TEN* years ago already? What? 😳 “You, are not evicting time …”
Yesterday, the CSSWG accepted my proposal for mesh gradients and diffusion curve gradients! Want to make gradients like this natively in CSS? Well, we've started the work on it. It's coming! Here's the Explainer: github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...
Good news (I hope): CSS-Tricks will indeed be back later this month!