Design and Engineering, As One · Matthias Ott We inherited our product processes from a 19th-century steel works. Frederick Winslow Taylor separated thinking from doing, managers from makers, designers from builders – and a hundred years later, m...

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A #longread about a man with a stopwatch, a school in Weimar, and why the gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident.

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Spielt der VfB schon wieder? 😁

Design and Engineering, As One · Matthias Ott We inherited our product processes from a 19th-century steel works. Frederick Winslow Taylor separated thinking from doing, managers from makers, designers from builders – and a hundred years later, m...

✍️ 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.

matthiasott.com/articles/des...

14-year-old today: “The option of me becoming a classic coder, one who writes everything by hand, probably doesn't exist anymore, does it? Too bad, it was actually fun.”

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Is that real?

NASA's Artemis II Live Views from Orion YouTube video by NASA

Your AI-generated videos of the Moon sure look impressive. But nothing compares to the real Artemis II footage – they’re almost there 😯:

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I couldn’t agree more – and I love the title image, too! 😁👏

AI Prototyping: Harder. Worser. Faster. Wronger. — Anna E. Cook AI prototyping is fast—but that doesn’t mean it’s useful. As teams use AI tools to generate high-fidelity prototypes, the focus shifts to output instead of purpose. The result is often polished UI wit...

As teams use AI tools to generate high-fidelity prototypes, the focus shifts to output instead of purpose.

Prototyping should be about testing ideas and learning what actually works before building.

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The biggest leadership downgrade in the history of the world.

Nicholas Carlini - Black-hat LLMs | [un]prompted 2026 YouTube video by unprompted

“LLMs can autonomously, and without fancy scaffolding, find and exploit 0-day vulnerabilities in critical software. This is not something that was true even, let’s say, three or four months ago.”

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GitHub - matthiasott/craft-internetarchive Contribute to matthiasott/craft-internetarchive development by creating an account on GitHub.

Just released a small but useful update for my little Internet Archive Plugin for Craft CMS. 🏛️

You can now opt individual entries out of archiving via a lightswitch field – and manually send any entry to the Wayback Machine straight from the Craft CP entries index. ✨

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Hello Again, World · Matthias Ott Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

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Vaping likely to cause cancer: new findings A comprehensive review led by cancer researchers at UNSW found vaping is likely to cause lung and oral cancer – even before long-term studies can confirm the exact risk.

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. 💚

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Hello Again, World · Matthias Ott Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

✍️ New post: Hello Again, World

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“go back to the moon but this time we have really good cameras” was a fantastic idea

“You chose to do this not me”

David is a loser.

Only like 6-7 minutes left! 🚀

This, Still Not for Everyone · Matthias Ott Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

✍️ New post: This, Still Not for Everyone

A few thoughts on the new WebAIM Million report. And why we will only improve #accessibility on the Web together.

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So “Matt” and “Matt” from Cloudflare used their AI coding agents to slopfork WordPress? Really? 🤔🧐

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

A: 100 %, with a space, because % is a unit!
B: 100%, who needs a weird space?
C: 100 %, with a thin space, don't half-ass it!
D: Honestly, who cares?

Links with Tips and Advice for Public Speaking I collected these links for a blog post, but did not get to the point writing it, yet. I have sorted and list them here. Maybe they are useful like they are already.

Directly updated my “public speaking tipps” to integrate the rider of @matthiasott.com as a template for other people. marcthiele.com/notes/links-...

Speaker Rider · Matthias Ott Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

This is a good page for any event organiser. No question left after reading the speaker rider of @matthiasott.com, right? matthiasott.com/speaker-rider

💙 Glad you like it, Marc! Still, if you can think of anything that would make it even better, let me know. 🤗 (My speaking page is still missing a copy&paste version of a bio and a photo, for example…)

This, Still Not for Everyone · Matthias Ott Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

✍️ New post: This, Still Not for Everyone

A few thoughts on the new WebAIM Million report. And why we will only improve #accessibility on the Web together.

matthiasott.com/notes/this-s...

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“Rogue country of geniuses in a data center.”

Squarespace & Web Standards: How We Helped Bring HTML Video & Audio Lazy Loading to Today’s Browsers — Squarespace Engineering Blog At Squarespace, many of our core products are built on web standards, and our engineers are constantly pushing the boundaries of the web’s capabilities. Occasionally, those boundaries reveal a limitat...

New on the Squarespace Engineering Blog! Squarespace & Web Standards: How We Helped Bring HTML Video & Audio Lazy-Loading to Today’s Browsers.

I'm real proud of the teamwork that went into this. Stay tuned for part 2 next week, which will cover dev best practices for using this new HTML standard.

A GitHub setting labelled “Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training", set to disabled

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!).
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I bet Brad really digs that comment, Dave.

And here’s a small favour I’d love to ask: If you’ve seen me speak and have a few kind words to share – a short testimonial about your experience – I’d be genuinely thankful if you wrote me. It would mean a lot and help others know what to expect. 🙏💚