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Matthias Ott

Listening Closely

My son, who is the violinist in our family, recently told me an interesting little fact about Augustin Hadelich, one of the greatest violinists alive: it’s hard for him to enjoy other people’s performances. Not because he’s critical or dismissive ...

Matthias Ott

The Lifeblood of the Web

One Thursday in May, I was sitting in a slightly delayed train, heading home from Düsseldorf after three days of meeting good friends and making new ones at beyond tellerrand, my friend Marc Thiele’s wonderful conference. As usual, after visiting ...

Matthias Ott

What Could Go Wrong?

p:has(+ .quote) { margin-bottom: 0 } .quote p { margin-bottom: 2rem; font-size: calc(var(--fluid-2)); line-height: 1.25 }); In 1986 – when I was four years old – three researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) were working on an ...

Matthias Ott

That’s My Rank

Have you ever wondered why new CSS features and other web technologies very often seem to just work across browsers these days? The reason is probably: Interop. The Interop Project is a collaborative effort between major browser makers — Apple, ...

FAFO.fm

Staying Calm with Duffie Cooley

Sidero and Oxide Kubecon NA event registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oxidesidero-at-kubecon-north-america-2025-tickets-1538869282449Duffie has lived through a lot. From multiple startup exits to big company changes. He stays grounded by remembering where he came from and what's important—people. This episode is full of career and ...

Matthias Ott

Making Space

Gregory Scott, founder of Kush Audio, shared an interesting insight about mixing music the other day: Sometimes, to bring something forward in the mix, instead of turning it up, it can be more effective to actually turn all the other ...

Cloudy with a Chance of Tech

Why Build a MUD in 2025?

Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs) are text-first, real-time multiplayer worlds that predate modern MMOs. In 2025, building a MUD might seem contrarian, but it’s exactly the kind of project that rewards strong engineering, clean contracts, and a relentless focus on player experience. ...

Matthias Ott

Jane Goodall’s Famous Last Words

Jane Goodall, the scientist, conservationist, and educator who died last Wednesday at 91, will always be remembered for her singular, field-defining work on wild chimpanzees. She lived with wild chimpanzees to study them, befriended them, and made a groundbreaking discovery: ...

Matthias Ott

Tweaking the Circuits

When the people at EMI ordered a bunch of Altec 436B compressors in the late 1950s for Abbey Road Studios, they were hoping for that legendary American sound they had heard at their sister studio Capitol Records in Los Angeles. ...

Matthias Ott

Age Quod Agis

Age quod agis. This Latin phrase, attributed to Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit Order, translates to “do what you are doing.” Do what you are doing. Like in: dedicate yourself wholeheartedly to whatever you engage in. Do ...

Matthias Ott

Blogtober 2025 - Day 1

It’s Blogtober again. And this time, I’ve (more or less spontaneously) decided to take part in it. For those of you who don’t know what it is: Blogtober is a writing challenge that takes part every Oktober (similar to Bloguary, ...

may.land

an internet of dogs (geocities)

On the memorial page to my dog Heloïse that it’s intentional you can’t find from the top level of my website, the MIDI the gramophone plays – rollicking! piano! badly charted if we’re being honest at least as far as ...

PythonBytes

#451: Databases are a Fad

Topics covered in this episode: PostgreSQL 18 Released Testing is better than DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms) Pyrefly in Cursor/PyCharm/VSCode/etc Playwright & pytest techniques that bring me joy Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the ...

may.land

nihilism re: attention difficulties

The suspicion that all this is élite anxiety in the face of a democratizing mediascape deepens when you consider what the attentionistas want people to focus on. Generally, it’s fine art, old books, or untrammelled nature—as if they were running ...