Maybe we need a German web browser and a German operating system. Mobile and desktop.

"Thank you for your service" - damit bedanken sich US-Amerikaner*innen bei ihrem Militär-Personal. Wie wäre es, wenn wir das für "systemrelevante" Berufe etablieren? Danke für eure wertvolle Arbeit, Putzkräfte, Müllabfuhr, Paketboten, Pflegekräfte,...

Nutze seit langer Zeit Mal wieder ein Android Phone. Oneplus 5t. Erschienen 2017. Ich stelle mir viele Fragen. Sorry, Apple, da müsst ihr jetzt durch. Warum eigentlich hat jemand Mal beschlossen dass Telefone eine riesige Kamera brauchen, die dicker ist als das Gehäuse? Die hier ist fein.

I really dig the EAA overview page of the Dutch market authority. Simple language that everybody can understand and lots of clarification. https://www.acm.nl/en/accessibility/accessibility-e-commerce-services-and-electronic-communications-services

Gibt’s das schon bei euch @matuzo ?

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In case you wanted to get new furniture anyway: https://music.apple.com/de/playlist/hauszerst%C3%B6rungsparty/pl.u-mJy8130CylZzvR

You know a network is alive and kickin’, when you just post a hashtag and get all sorts of replies from people you did not know before. #fediverse #mastodon #did

2025. It was a lot. https://moritzglantz.de/blog/posts/2025/

It is unbelievable where and how people accept advertising and to be spied on. Alexa in kids rooms, tvs that send off screenshots of the shown content, ads directly in operating systems.

I am thinking of starting a #did meetup in #karlsruhe. That would go well with the homebrew website club (cc @pfefferle#did#karlsruhe

Bugrezept.

Gleich mal den #dit / #dut in den Kalender eingetragen. (Digitaler Unabhängigkeitstag) #39c3 @marcuwekling

Wohne in #39c3 Ultrafomonistan

“123 Things you did not know about Thing” “You’re using Thing wrong” “Stop Doing This With Thing Immediately” ”The Thing Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know This” Yeah, I know. You smart, me stupid. Me click. You money. You smart.

I recently found fun in “curating” music playlists. The most fun part: finding a name and make an image for it. Today: Bubblegum Poop! https://music.apple.com/de/playlist/bubblegum-poop/pl.u-38oW9zeIdqyPre

Oh, gerade zufällig #wrapstodon gefunden, weil ich mich normalerweise nie das offizielle Mastodon-Frontend nutze… https://mastodon.social/@MoritzGlantz/wrapstodon/2025/fab1a0ac9fab88c3

Do you also know somebody who answer to the question if they play an instrument: “Yes, the triangle 😜” 13 years ago I was so annoyed by people underestimating this instrument, that cuts through every mix, that I planned to make a website about it. Today it goes live […]

Man, there are so many different sources about the #eaa implementations in the different countries out there. And every one of them says something different. Let’s take Croatia for example. There are many sources saying the maximum penalty is under or about 50.000€. I don’t speak Croatian. I […]

My morse code generator now has a download function: https://moritzglantz.de/morsekode/

My web platform feature of the day: text fragments links. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Reference/Fragment/Text_fragments

I built a Safari extension, that enables the mouse side buttons to navigate back and forth. I know about apps that do this on an OS level and would always prefer them, but on a locked down corporate machine you can’t install apps that need access to accessibility permissions… …but pay Apple […]

I never wanted to know more about the #eaa than “make your products accessible or else you’re gonna get problems”, but here we are… #a11y #accessibility

The artists will never go the easy way everybody can. That is what makes them artists.

Does anybody want to test the mobile mode of contrast-ratio? https://contrast-ratio.org/mobile/ (desktop should work the same as before. I made some substantial changes just for mobile, but did not have the time to test much. Maybe I need some automated tests.)

Cottonbureau has a sale right now: Free shipping for the US (rest of the world half the price) on my T-Shirts. I just ordered two. https://cottonbureau.com/people/mgx Code: **LASTCHANCE25**

[Pluribus spoilers] After watching the “Pluribus” episode “The Gap” I fell into a rabbit hole. I did not know about the “Darién Gap” and I find it absolutely fascinating. It is a hostile jungle area spanning the border of Colombia and Panama from one coast to the other. There is no road going […]

TIL: The Chrome offline dinosaur has a screen reader mode and it is absolutely playable without a display and just audio output.

TIL: The Chrome offline dinosaur has a screen reader mode and it is absolutely playable without a display and just audio output.

To me, doing presentation / training / workshop feels almost the same like playing a show with a band. I need to prepare and practice a lot. When I perform, I am on adrenaline and in a tunnel. The aftermath differs.

I just had to adjust a presentation example about red-green color blindness I have been using for 10 years, because my own vision has changed. I did not see any number anymore. Turns out if I put the picture on a dark background, I can see it again..

Plätzchen dieses Jahr bitte ohne Bugpulver. Bitte gehen sie weiter.

Also Einstein hatte schon recht mit den Dingen die unendlich sind. #csu

Cottonbureau has a sale right now: Free shipping for the US (rest of the world half the price) on my T-Shirts. I just ordered two. https://cottonbureau.com/people/mgx Code: **LASTCHANCE25**

Falls irgendjemand von euch mitbekommt, dass die Marktüberwachungsstelle der Länder wirklich was tut, außer Mails zu beantworten, ich will es wissen :D

As a keyboard only user, I would like to be able to navigate a page using shortcuts like screenreaders. Jump to headlines, use the rotor menu etc. #userstories

Man muss nicht jeden feuchten Furz zur Headline machen.

@hallo ich habe 504 Gateway Timeouts auf allen PHP files auf Faye. Ich habe heute nichts geändert…

Ich möchte verkünden: Ich habe soeben eine Antwort der „**Marktüberwachungsstelle der Ländern für die Barrierefreiheit von Produkten und Dienstleistungen**“ bekommen. Es beginnt.

Ich habe für 10 Sekunden drüber nachgedacht mir check42.org zu registrieren. For the lulz. Aber dann hab’ ich’s gelassen.

A group of people nerding out about HTML lists for half an hour is just my crowd :)

#11ty people: how do you write and publish posts? Do you do it all in your code editor, or does anybody use tools for that? I am interested in the tool landscape! ❤️

TIL: Der Satz „Nicht über uns, ohne uns“ - „Nothing about us without us“ hat eine über 500-jährige Geschichte. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_about_us_without_us

New blog post: **WhatsApp iOS Backup Viewer** When I started using an iPhone around 2020, I migrated ten years of Android WhatsApp chats via a shady app from the internet™️ to the new iPhone. This was not an official way (since that did not exist back then). It involved iTunes backups that get […]

As far as weird flexes go…

Google Slides has a new feature “Optimize this slide”. It produces a slide that mimics the overall style of the original slide, structures it somehow and adds some icons. So far so good. BUT: The new slide is **one big low-res image** which has the glorious alt-text: “Optimize this slide” […]

After selling one of these, I know that at least one person on this planet shares my kind of humor. https://cottonbureau.com/p/YFVEZR/shirt/reactangular-is-it-react-is-it-angular#/19449902/tee-men-premium-lightweight-vintage-black-tri-blend-s

Nobody can convince me, that this is good design.

I built a thing for myself and maybe it can help some people. WhatsApp Backup viewer for iOS. WhatsApp was not showing me old chats from before migrating from Android to iOS. But they are still in the backups. So I made an unencrypted backup, found the WhatsApp Chat SQLite file and built a […]

Maybe I am old and stupid enough to think about how we could have a truly decentralized way to connect socially online, without platforms.