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Shantell Sans: A Dyslexia-Friendly, Open-Source Answer to Comic Sans
Artist Shantell Martin and type designer Stephen Nixon (ArrowType) built Shantell Sans as a modern reinterpretation of what made Comic Sans culturally sticky: w
specification.website: A Platform-Agnostic Checklist for What a Decent Website Should Do
A new open specification called specification.website attempts to codify what every competent website should implement, organized into ten categories: foundatio
Touring London's Free Public Roof Terraces, From Useful to Pointless
A planning quirk has incentivised City of London developers to bolt free public roof terraces onto new skyscrapers, and the results are wildly uneven. The three
United 767 turns back over Atlantic after passenger names Bluetooth device 'BOMB'
United Flight 236, a Boeing 767-400ER en route from Newark to Palma de Mallorca, reversed course roughly an hour into its transatlantic crossing on Saturday aft
Why Domain Knowledge Beats Coding Skill in the Agentic AI Era
Writing software was never really about writing—it was about constructing a mental model of the domain first, whether payroll garnishments or GTFS transit feeds
Zig's New ELF Linker Gains Incremental Builds, Now Self-Hosts the Compiler
Zig contributor Matthew Lugg reports that the new ELF linker introduced in 0.16.0 has matured enough to build the self-hosted Zig compiler with LLVM and LLD ena
A Poet's Case Against AI: The Beauty Lives in the Imperfection
Shawn Smucker's prose poem is a sardonic argument against outsourcing human experience to AI. Framed as ironic advice to "please use AI" for meal planning, trip
Danish Pension Fund AkademikerPension Blacklists SpaceX Over Governance Concerns
AkademikerPension, a $25 billion Danish pension fund, has ruled out investing in SpaceX ahead of its planned IPO. CIO Anders Schelde called the company's govern
Danish Pension Fund Drops SpaceX Over Governance and Valuation Concerns
AkademikerPension, a Danish pension fund, has divested from SpaceX, pointing to weak corporate governance and an inflated private valuation as the core reasons.
EY Canada cybersecurity report riddled with AI-hallucinated citations and fake stats
A 44-page Ernst & Young Canada report on loyalty system fraud, Points of Attack, is laced with fabricated citations, contradictory statistics, and AI-generated
Framework 12 struggles to compete with cheaper, faster MacBook Neo
Jeff Geerling benchmarked Framework's new 12-inch convertible against Apple's $499 MacBook Neo and found the comparison brutal. The Framework 12 starts at $749
Frontend's Lost Decade Is Repeating Itself in the Age of Agentic AI
Mauro Bieg argues that the disruption AI is bringing to programming mirrors what JavaScript frameworks did to frontend work over the past decade: a textbook cas