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2026-05-31

#1

Dav2d

⭐ 96 💬 16 👤 captain_bender

_A codec does not really exist until everyone can decode it._ Today, we announce dav2d, a fast decoder for the new AV2 codec, developed by members of the VideoLAN community. A few weeks ago, we opened the repository and started development in public. Since then, AV2 itself has reached its first official specification release, making this...

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#2

The Website Specification

⭐ 247 💬 98 👤 k1m

A platform-agnostic specification of the technical features every decent website should have — from `` to `/.well-known/security.txt`, from WCAG contrast to `llms.txt`. Categories Ten areas, mapped to widely-accepted standards. Platform agnostic Whether you ship WordPress, Drupal, TYPO3, Next.js, Astro, Hugo, a Django app, or plain HTML, the spec is the spec.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="source">🔗 <a href="https://specification.website/" target="_blank">https://specification.website/</a></div> </div> <div class="card" style="--accent: #45b7d1;"> <div class="card-header"> <div class="rank">#3</div> <div class="title-section"> <h2><a href="https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/05/londons-free-roof-terraces.html" target="_blank">London's Free Roof Terraces</a></h2> <div class="meta"> <span class="score">⭐ 129</span> <span class="comments">💬 53</span> <span class="by">👤 zeristor</span> </div> <div class="summary"><p>_Opened September 2022, 57th-58th floor, blogged here_ Tickets released on Mondays, they go fast but ridiculously early slots are often available. _Opened August 2022, 50th floor, blogged here_ Tickets released on Mondays, current availability in four days time, but Horizon 22 is better. _I went instead to the...</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="source">🔗 <a href="https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/05/londons-free-roof-terraces.html" target="_blank">https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/05/londons-free-roof-terraces.html</a></div> </div> <div class="card" style="--accent: #96ceb4;"> <div class="card-header"> <div class="rank">#4</div> <div class="title-section"> <h2><a href="https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/05/domain-expertise-has-always-been-the-real-moat/" target="_blank">Domain expertise has always been the real moat</a></h2> <div class="meta"> <span class="score">⭐ 683</span> <span class="comments">💬 401</span> <span class="by">👤 aaronbrethorst</span> </div> <div class="summary"><p>The hard part of writing software has never been the writing. It was building a working model of the domain in your head first. Before you could ship a payroll system you had to understand garnishments and pre-tax deductions and what happens when someone’s pay period straddles a rate change.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="source">🔗 <a href="https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/05/domain-expertise-has-always-been-the-real-moat/" target="_blank">https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/05/domain-expertise-has-always-been-th...</a></div> </div> <div class="card" style="--accent: #ffeaa7;"> <div class="card-header"> <div class="rank">#5</div> <div class="title-section"> <h2><a href="https://secret-archive.org/" target="_blank">Security Envelope Pattern collection – S.E.C.R.E.T</a></h2> <div class="meta"> <span class="score">⭐ 29</span> <span class="comments">💬 1</span> <span class="by">👤 ColinWright</span> </div> <div class="summary"><p>Security Envelope Pattern collection | S.E.C.R.E.T. was founded to connect with fellow collectors, to create the first standardized security envelope pattern collection, and to delight in playful taxonomy. Adopting the coined term of _**Obscurationists**_, we celebrate the craft of secrecy.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="source">🔗 <a href="https://secret-archive.org/" target="_blank">https://secret-archive.org/</a></div> </div> <div class="card" style="--accent: #dda15e;"> <div class="card-header"> <div class="rank">#6</div> <div class="title-section"> <h2><a href="https://www.lucasfcosta.com/blog/backpressure-is-all-you-need" target="_blank">Backpressure is all you need</a></h2> <div class="meta"> <span class="score">⭐ 11</span> <span class="comments">💬 4</span> <span class="by">👤 lucasfcosta</span> </div> <div class="summary"><p>There are two _obvious_ ways to use coding agents. The first is to let the LLM run unattended and hope the repository survives. This is fast, exciting, and stupid.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="source">🔗 <a href="https://www.lucasfcosta.com/blog/backpressure-is-all-you-need" target="_blank">https://www.lucasfcosta.com/blog/backpressure-is-all-you-need</a></div> </div> <div class="card" style="--accent: #98d8c8;"> <div class="card-header"> <div class="rank">#7</div> <div class="title-section"> <h2><a href="https://shantellsans.com/process" target="_blank">Shantell Sans (2023)</a></h2> <div class="meta"> <span class="score">⭐ 293</span> <span class="comments">💬 33</span> <span class="by">👤 aleda145</span> </div> <div class="summary"><p>The Story of Shantell Sans _Shantell Sans mixes variable axes for Weight, Italic, Informality, and Bounce to deliver a wide array of font styles, from friendly, readable, everyday typographic workhorses to striking, high-energy, experimental styles meant especially for animation._ _This is the story behind its inspiration and creation._ Why make a new font? Shantell Martin, Artist ![Image 1: Shantell Martin drawing on a piece of...</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="source">🔗 <a href="https://shantellsans.com/process" target="_blank">https://shantellsans.com/process</a></div> </div> <div class="card" style="--accent: #f7dc6f;"> <div class="card-header"> <div class="rank">#8</div> <div class="title-section"> <h2><a href="https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/one-year-of-roto-the-compiled-scripting-language-for-rust/" target="_blank">One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust</a></h2> <div class="meta"> <span class="score">⭐ 57</span> <span class="comments">💬 11</span> <span class="by">👤 Hasnep</span> </div> <div class="summary"><p>_By Terts Diepraam_ Almost exactly one year ago, we announced Roto, a JIT-compiled embedded scripting language for Rust applications. A lot has happened since then that we'd like to tell you about! Along with this post, we published Roto v0.11.0!.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="source">🔗 <a href="https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/one-year-of-roto-the-compiled-scripting-language-for-rust/" target="_blank">https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/one-year-of-roto-the-compiled-scripting-language-fo...</a></div> </div> <div class="card" style="--accent: #bb8fce;"> <div class="card-header"> <div class="rank">#9</div> <div class="title-section"> <h2><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08492" target="_blank">A pictorial introduction to differential geometry (2017)</a></h2> <div class="meta"> <span class="score">⭐ 72</span> <span class="comments">💬 2</span> <span class="by">👤 ricudis</span> </div> <div class="summary"><p>As all the concepts are presented as pictures, there are no equations in this article. As such this article may be read by pre-university students who enjoy physics, mathematics and geometry. However it will also greatly aid the intuition of an undergraduate and masters students, learning general relativity and similar courses.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="source">🔗 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08492" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08492</a></div> </div> <div class="card" style="--accent: #85c1e9;"> <div class="card-header"> <div class="rank">#10</div> <div class="title-section"> <h2><a href="https://github.com/Hawzen/I-found-a-seashell-in-the-middle-of-the-desert#i-found-a-seashell-in-the-middle-of-the-desert" target="_blank">I found a seashell in the middle of the desert</a></h2> <div class="meta"> <span class="score">⭐ 354</span> <span class="comments">💬 97</span> <span class="by">👤 Hawzen</span> </div> <div class="summary"><p>The author discovered a fully solid rock that eerily resembles a seashell at the base of a cliff in the Alghat desert, Saudi Arabia — 500 km from the nearest coastline. Carbonate rocks and marine fossils in the area suggest parts of the Arabian Peninsula were submerged during the late Jurassic (~150 million years ago). Curious about the fossil's identity, the author DIY'd a morphological analysis: mathematically representing shell shapes, defining distance metrics between them, and mapping the space of 7,894 species from a dataset of 59,244 shell images — all to find the closest modern lookalikes to this desert specimen.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="source">🔗 <a href="https://github.com/Hawzen/I-found-a-seashell-in-the-middle-of-the-desert#i-found-a-seashell-in-the-middle-of-the-desert" target="_blank">https://github.com/Hawzen/I-found-a-seashell-in-the-middle-of-the-desert#i-fo...</a></div> </div> <footer> <p>2026-05-31</p> </footer> </div> </body> </html>