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Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.
I hated writing in high school. It wasn’t objective like my favorite subjects, math and science. It also didn’t help that we had to write about old, hard-to-understand literature like Shakespeare. But my perspective on writing changed once I started working full-time as a software engineer.
Recommended read: https://www.developing.dev/p/why-engineers-need-to-write https://www.developing.dev/p/why-engineers-need-to-write
Getting comfortable with the lack of privacy with my Week Notes (6 mins read).
Looking back at a few years of writing week notes publicly, and how I approach privacy around what I (want to) write in them.
Ending #blogeverydamnday with a cheer ✨
I'd probably say my use of my blog to record info for future me - I technical blog about a lot of things that end up saving me time in the future as I just need to vaguely remember if I've done it before and I can look up my articles. Helps that a tonne of other people gain value from my blogging too!
Ash Huang & Ryan Putnam on a microsite: For the month of January, we’ll make a pact to blog a few times to get into the habit, and create a directory of all the creators who participate. Readers can then find new makers to follow before we all scatter to the winds. Win-win! I’m all […]
Recommended read: Bring Back Blogging - Chris Coyier https://chriscoyier.net/2022/12/26/bring-back-blogging/
Is it worth writing about?
And that’s great. It’s also the return of Google Reader! Mastodon is really confusing for newcomers. There are memes about it. If you’re an internet user of a certain age, …
A blog is an easy way to write on the web. Here's how to get started.
Every single day, I receive at least one email asking if I’ll accept cash for adding a link to someone’s website in an old post. I won’t. Not ever. Please stop asking. I can imagine a world where, if …
Phew, that's a lot of traffic 😅 What happens when a blog post goes viral? (5 mins read).
Looking at some of the things that happen when my posts have gone viral, from how much traffic it brings, to the various sources of traffic.
Want to know the secret to blogging more often? Lower your standards! A post which you don't think is ready yet is a LOT better than a giant folder full of drafts that no-one ever gets to see (Your readers won't ever know how good the thing you wanted to write would have been)Simon Willison (@simonw)Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:23 GMT
And as always: one big secret to writing more is to lower your standards Published but "could have been better" is massively more valuable than something that eternally sits in your draftsPost details
Want to know the secret to blogging more often? Lower your standards! A post which you don't think is ready yet is a LOT better than a giant folder full of drafts that no-one ever gets to see (Your readers won't ever know how good the thing you wanted to write would have been)Simon Willison (@simonw)Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:23 GMT
Simon Willison (@simonw)Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:49 +0000
Posted on 2022-09-12
The website of Robin Rendle, a designer and writer from the UK.
Recommended read: Take Care of Your Blog https://www.robinrendle.com/notes/take-care-of-your-blog-/
Laying out the goals & principles for my site
… blogging is great isn’t it? You don’t have to write every week or every day. Just write when you have something you want to write about, and up it pops in RSS feed readers, or posted to Twitter, or whatever. Lovely. — Phil Gyford
Trying out a little something, inspired by @genmonTom Critchlow (@tomcritchlow)Tue, 10 May 2022 15:46 +0000
Tom Critchlow. Move. Think. Create.
The answer to this appears to be a resounding "no". So I've abandoned Substack. Interoperability with the open web is essential.Post details
@SubstackInc heya - how do I import my *new* blog posts into Substack? I don't want to have to copy and paste them in manually every day. My WordPress blog has an RSS feed and an API. Can I hook that up to your service? Thanks!Terence Eden (@edent)Mon, 12 Apr 2021 16:13 +0000
Terence Eden (@edent)Tue, 12 Apr 2022 06:20 +0000
Recommended read: Random Indie Weblog Posts https://indieblog.page/
How do we bring back blog posts. I want more of them.
Stephanie Stimac 🔮 Web Witch (@seaotta)Wed, 02 Mar 2022 17:33 GMT
Where people write articles on their own website.
Stephanie Stimac 🔮 Web Witch (@seaotta)Wed, 02 Mar 2022 18:32 GMT
Everything on Twitter is a 🧵 these days and it’s annoying. Get a blog. #moarusingh.com (@MaybeThisIsRu)Wed, 23 Feb 2022 05:48 GMT
a nice thing about writing with less jargon is that if what I'm saying doesn't make sense, it's easy for readers to call me on it if you use a lot of impenetrable jargon, people will often think the problem is with *them* instead of with your writing🔎Julia Evans🔍 (@b0rk)Fri, 18 Feb 2022 14:50 GMT
Please Add a Relevant Publish Time to Blog Posts (2 mins read).
A request to bloggers to not use midnight as the time they publish an article.
Recommended read: Why don't I have a blog? · fede.dm https://fede.dm/blog/
Want to know the secret to blogging more often? Lower your standards! A post which you don't think is ready yet is a LOT better than a giant folder full of drafts that no-one ever gets to see (Your readers won't ever know how good the thing you wanted to write would have been)Simon Willison (@simonw)Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:23 GMT
I've started hitting publish, then reading it with everyone else who sees my tweet about it and fixing the typos when I spot them
Simon Willison (@simonw)Wed, 12 Jan 2022 18:19 GMT
✨ 2021 stats ✨ 🗞 Total articles published: 21 💭 Articles still in progress: 7 🗑 Pitches rejected: 6 ✏️ Blog posts: 1 Not bad for working a full-time day job on top imo 🙃Carolyn Stransky (@carolstran)Tue, 28 Dec 2021 14:56 GMT
40 weekly posts in a row! 😱🎉🥳 Many thanks to all people I have worked with doing hundreds of reviews and workshops and also readers asking questions. I couldn’t write all that without you.Post details
Choosing interoperable and user-friendly ids and codes is a must do when designing an API apihandyman.io/how-to-choose-… #apidesignAPI Handyman 💉💉 (@apihandyman)Wed, 29 Dec 2021 10:26 GMT
API Handyman 💉💉 (@apihandyman)Wed, 29 Dec 2021 20:23 GMT
When it comes to blogging I always go back to this post from @photomatt. > So blog just for two people. ma.tt/2014/01/intrin…George Tsiolis ⚡ (@gtsiolis)Mon, 27 Dec 2021 20:26 GMT
Soon we’ll have a story bounty where we’ll post topics we want articles on and then folks can write them! If you’d ever like to workshop ideas I’m happy to help there. Maybe swing by our slack or DM?
Wandering Woodsman 🔥🚴♂️🌳 (@philsturgeon)Sun, 26 Dec 2021 14:51 GMT
Recommended read: RSS is Wonderful · Quakkels.com https://quakkels.com/posts/rss-is-wonderful/
Recommended read: Forget Twitter Threads; Write A Blog Post Instead! https://kevq.uk/forget-twitter-threads-write-a-blog-post-instead/
My blog has more words of content than the first three Harry Potter books combined. Or more than the 5th book (the longest Harry Potter book). So that's neat.
Kent C. Dodds (@kentcdodds)Fri, 15 Oct 2021 12:54 +0000
One of the smartest decisions we made at @Cloudflare was recognizing that the primary purpose of our blog was attracting employees, not attracting customers.Matthew Prince 🌥 (@eastdakota)Sat, 02 Oct 2021 16:24 +0000
👋🏼 Woke up at 5am, decided not to just doom-scroll so got up and wrote and scheduled 2 blog posts. I haven't had the real urge to write like this in a while, it was fun 🥰 Now it's 6:30 which means it's time for exercise ✨
Pauline P. Narvas ⚡️ (@paulienuh)Tue, 28 Sep 2021 05:34 +0000
Recommended read: No More Medium. Build Your Own Site, Please. https://nomedium.dev/
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