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Articles and notes by Matthias Ott, User Experience Designer from Stuttgart, Germany.
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Highlighting Blogging on Mastodon
https://matthiasott.com/notes/highlighting-blogging-on-mastodon
Published: July 2, 2024 22:27
In what looks like a very smart move, the team at Mastodon just released a very nice new feature for media organizations, journalists and bloggers: when someone shares a link to an article by certain news outlets like The Verge, MacStories, or MacRumors,…
Fixing the Logitech Spotlight
https://matthiasott.com/notes/fixing-the-logitech-spotlight
Published: March 19, 2024 22:28
The Logitech Spotlight presentation remote is a sleek piece of hardware. It is comparatively small, fits nicely in the palm of your hand, and the buttons come with a very satisfying, albeit for my taste a tiny bit too loud, click. But most importantly, the…
Making Own Your Web More Sustainable
https://matthiasott.com/notes/making-own-your-web-more-sustainable
Published: March 16, 2024 00:21
I just published the 11th issue of Own Your Web, my newsletter about designing, building, creating, and publishing on the Web. When I started the newsletter back in autumn of 2023, I didn’t yet know what form the newsletter would take on, if people would…
Welcome to the IndieWeb
https://matthiasott.com/notes/welcome-to-the-indieweb
Published: March 14, 2024 16:36
Imagine you post and make new friends on an online network for more than a decade – and suddenly, your account gets suspended for no apparent reason. And there is nothing you can do about it. Or imagine the online community you were an active part of for…
Links Worth Sharing
https://matthiasott.com/notes/links-worth-sharing
Published: March 14, 2024 16:33
Every day, we browse the Web and scroll our timelines. And every day, we find even more interesting websites, blog posts, articles, videos, podcasts, and other insights and ideas that we want to document, preserve, and share. The most obvious way to save…
We ❤️ RSS
https://matthiasott.com/notes/we-love-rss
Published: February 14, 2024 15:45
In the last issue of Own Your Web, we looked at blogrolls as one way to improve the visibility and discoverability of our sites. Whether or not you want to add a blogroll to your site is a matter of personal preference. But there is something else which…
All Things Being Equalized
https://matthiasott.com/notes/all-things-being-equalized
Published: January 10, 2024 00:28
For my birthday, I got a new pair of speakers for my home office / home studio. After looking around for quite some time, I settled on the ADAM Audio T5V in the end. The T5Vs are affordable, entry-level studio monitors with a 5“ woofer that are optimized…
42 for 42
https://matthiasott.com/notes/42-for-42
Published: January 8, 2024 01:33
I’m turning 42 today and yes, I am as surprised about that number as you are. If 42 really is the answer to life, the universe, and everything, then maybe it makes sense to look back on what the old lad actually learned in all those years. So, here is a…
Tour De-Noise
https://matthiasott.com/notes/tour-de-noise
Published: January 7, 2024 14:34
Whether you are running online workshops, hosting a live stream, or recording audio or video content, optimal audio quality is absolutely essential. People in your audience might tolerate if your…
What’s Too Good to Be True?
https://matthiasott.com/notes/whats-too-good-to-be-true
Published: January 4, 2024 01:23
The web platform is changing rapidly these days. With every major browser release, more and more powerful features get added, many of which are based on previous input about what web developers need to build better for the web. One way for browser vendors…