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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.

https://engineering.squarespace.com/blog/2026/squarespace-and-web-standards-how-we-helped-bring-html-video-and-audio-lazy-loading-to-todays-browsers

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 limitation: an opportunity for the web’s native capabilities to grow. This post is the story of how we foun

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Matthias Ott 1d ago

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!).
https://github.com/settings/copilot/features#copilot-telemetry-policy

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Matthias Ott 3d ago

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. 🙏💚

Matthias Ott 3d ago

I finally did it: I now have a speaking page on my site. 🎤🎉

If you’re looking for someone to talk about design, the web, CSS, accessibility, or the independent web at your event, that’s where you’ll find what I do, what I’ve spoken about, and how to get in touch:

https://matthiasott.com/speaking

Speaking of the Web … · Matthias Ott

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany.

Matthias Ott – Web Design Engineer

Matthias Ott 4d ago

Ariel Salminen 6d ago

I’m excited to announce the 1̶s̶t̶ 7th release candidate of Elena today! 🫶

Elena is a simple, tiny library for building Progressive Web Components. Unlike most web component libraries, Elena doesn’t force JavaScript for everything.

Crafted with love and care using HTML, CSS & plain JS: https://elenajs.com

Elena | Progressive Web Components

Elena is a simple, tiny library for building Progressive Web Components.

Elena

31 years.

For the kids: That’s a dad joke referring to a line from a hip-hop track from 31 years ago.

Matthias Ott 4d ago

I just had to … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#shimmyshimmyya

Matthias Ott 5d ago

@chriscoyier @davatron5000 Thanks for the shout out on my favorite podcast! 🤗 The issue in my case was indeed an incredibly large number of crawler bots from different countries, all brute-force attacking my notes section with tags in the URL params. They also completely ignored nofollow and canonical. The majority were coming from Singapore, later Taiwan. So I still have no idea why my hosting provider decided to block Canada. 😆

Matthias Ott 6d ago

Zach Leatherman Mar 24

https://matthiasott.com/notes/the-shape-of-friction from @matthiasott

The Shape of Friction · 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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