Matthias Ott

Rick Beato just published another one of his long-form interviews. This time, he interviewed Josh Homme. Josh is from Palm Desert, California, where there were no clubs, so his band Kyuss, which he founded when he was 14, played parties outside in the desert. Out there, as Josh puts it, there’s nothing for the sound to bounce off of and everything just goes away. So he tuned down as low as the strings would go, played through bass amps, and somewhere in the distance you could hear a generator…

Chrome 148 shipped this week, and in the release notes you’ll find one of the best things to happen to web performance in a long time: loading="lazy" for <video> and <audio> elements. Scott Jehl, tech lead of Squarespace’s Performance & Accessibility team, has been the driving force behind this. Scott proposed the spec change, wrote the implementation, and got it through the WHATWG HTML spec process with positive signals from all three major browser engines. If you want to…

You might know that I – with the generous help from Brandon Kelly on the Craft 5 version – wrote and maintain a Webmention plugin for Craft CMS. Today, I shipped version 1.3.0. It’s a security and abuse hardening release, and if you’re running the plugin, you should upgrade. The backstory of this one is, at least to me, kind of interesting. Back in March, I added a new feature to the plugin: a Failed Webmentions view in the Craft control panel. The reason was simple. Building a Webmention…

In November 1928, Georg Neumann and Erich Rickmann founded Georg Neumann & Co. in a Berlin workshop and by the end of that year, Neumann had debuted the CMV 3, the first mass-produced condenser microphone. The CMV designation stood for Condensator Mikrofon Verstärker, condenser microphone amplifier, and the number three hints at the least two prototypes that didn’t quite make it. The broadcasters who got their hands on the CMV 3 didn’t dw...