What is Tailwind CSS?
Tailwind CSS is a front-end framework whose utility-first approach offers high customizability and maintainability for website and web application design. We explore its history and what makes it awesome.
Daring Bits
FCC Wants DEI Scorecards - The FCC wants to make public the race and gender scorecards of TV and radio broadcasters. FCC panel member Brendan Carr dissents, saying it will be used to politically ostracize businesses.
Apple Kills Web Apps, Blames EU - In response to the EU’s Digital Markets Act, Apple is trying to save its App Store monopoly by killing progressive web app (PWA) support with iOS 17.4. While EU regulators and Apple inevitably start blaming each other, competitors like Android and Windows maintain full PWA support.
Biden Worried About Your Memory - The White House reports that certain programming languages are unsafe because they leak memory. Not content to simply encourage a switch to memory-safe languages, the report proposes extremely costly measures, like formal verification of software products.
The Satoshi Nakamoto Chronicles - 120 pages of emails between mysterious bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto and his earliest collaborator have been made public, revealing prescient discussions about bitcoin’s energy efficiency, its anonymity, and whether it has ancillary usefulness (like time stamping).
Robot Overlords
Qualcomm Releases Dozens of AI Into the Wild - Qualcomm has released more than 80 open source AI models, “making it easier for everyone to run AI models for vision, audio, and speech applications on-device!”
AI is Nicer than Humans - Researchers have demonstrated that AI is more altruistic and cooperative than humans, suggesting suitability for sensitive jobs, like dispute resolution or customer service - or, that AI will inevitably identify humans as a bunch of meanies who need to be dealt with. 😬 The research.
