Matthias Ott

@matthiasott
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Independent user experience designer and web design engineer, teacher, speaker. Interface Prototyping at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design. UX and web design engineering workshops. #searchable 🇪🇺🌍
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The challenge with AI in open source security has transitioned from an AI slop tsunami into more of a ... plain security report tsunami. Less slop but lots of reports. Many of them really good.

I'm spending hours per day on this now. It's intense.

“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.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd26pWhfmg

Nicholas Carlini - Black-hat LLMs | [un]prompted 2026

Nicholas Carlini, Research Scientist, Anthropic, speaks at [un]prompted 2026 on: Black-hat LLMs.Large language models are now capable of automating attacks t...

YouTube

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

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

https://github.com/matthiasott/craft-internetarchive

GitHub - matthiasott/craft-internetarchive

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

GitHub

✍️ New post: Hello Again, World

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https://matthiasott.com/notes/hello-again-world

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.

Matthias Ott – Web Design Engineer

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 of the tobacco industry. 💚

https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2026/03/vaping-likely-to-cause-cancer-new-findings

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.

UNSW Sites

✍️ New post: Hello Again, World

📷🌍

https://matthiasott.com/notes/hello-again-world

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.

Matthias Ott – Web Design Engineer

Holy shit you guys we just watched #Artemis go from the plane

(Edit: I posted videos in the replies, if that's of interest❤️)

#space #nasa #ArtemisII #Artemis2 #spaceflight

Only like 6-7 minutes left! 🚀

✍️ 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.

https://matthiasott.com/notes/this-still-not-for-everyone

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.

Matthias Ott – Web Design Engineer

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right?

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wordpress can’t—

it couldn’t possibly—

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