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Ditching Tailwind for vanilla CSS — and borrowing its best ideas anyway
Julia Evans documents migrating several sites off Tailwind toward semantic HTML and hand-written CSS, and finds that years of Tailwind use quietly taught her th
Doogee U10 tablet runs Debian 12 from SD card via reverse-engineered RK3562 port
A developer reverse-engineered the Rockchip RK3562-based Doogee U10, an $80 Android tablet, to boot full Debian 12 Bookworm from an SD card without unlocking th
EU mulls barring US cloud providers from handling sensitive government data
The European Union is reportedly drafting rules that would restrict member states from using American hyperscalers — Google, Microsoft, and AWS — to process sen
Fecal Transplant Therapy Cuts Autism Symptoms 45% Two Years Out, Heads to Phase 3
Arizona State University researchers tracking children who received Microbiota Transplant Therapy (MTT) found benefits not only persisted but deepened over time
Five Kinds of HTML Lists You Probably Forgot Existed
A deep dive into HTML's list elements argues that most developers only reach for `<ul>` and `<ol>` while ignoring three other valid collection patterns: descrip
Futhark by Example: A Hands-On Tour of the Parallel Array Language
Futhark's documentation team has assembled a graduated collection of commented example programs designed to introduce the parallel functional array language thr
Gruber: AI Is Infrastructure, Not Apple's Next Killer Product
John Gruber pushes back on Steven Levy's Wired piece arguing that Apple's incoming CEO must ship a defining AI product or watch agents obviate the iPhone. Grube
Hosting a website on an 8-bit AVR microcontroller over SLIP
A hobbyist project gets an AVR64DD32 microcontroller serving a webpage over the open internet. Ethernet was ruled out because even 10BASE-T's 20 Mbit/s Manchest
Local LLM inference on M5 MacBook Pro costs 3x more than OpenRouter
A cost breakdown of running Gemma 4 31B locally on a maxed-out M5 Max MacBook Pro shows hardware depreciation, not electricity, drives the economics. At $0.18/k
Malta becomes first nation to offer ChatGPT Plus to every citizen via OpenAI deal
OpenAI has struck a partnership with the Government of Malta to provide ChatGPT Plus access to the country's entire citizenry, marking the first national-scale
Meta pulls 1M-follower account after Kuwaiti government request
Meta reportedly removed a popular account with roughly one million followers following a takedown request from the Kuwaiti government, according to a post by jo
Mozilla pushes back on UK proposal to age-gate VPNs under Online Safety Act
Mozilla has formally objected to a UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology consultation that floats restricting young people's access to VPNs, a me