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Nearly forty years after rolling off the production line for the last time, the Citroën two-CV is back — and this time it runs on electricity. Unveiled at the Paris Motor Show, the revived city car leans into its original promise of simplicity and affordability, a deliberate contrast to the bloated, screen-heavy EVs crowding the market right now.
On the developer side, a long-standing frustration in web building may finally have a clean answer. A new technique for making iframes automatically fit their content — rather than forcing designers to hardcode dimensions or wrestle with JavaScript hacks — is drawing quiet attention from front-end developers tired of what has always felt like an unsolved problem hiding in plain sight.
And for writers who prefer their tools minimal and their data private, a new terminal application called writui combines encrypted storage with Markdown editing, keeping everything in the command line. It is a small tool with a clear point of view — that writing software does not need to be a platform, just a place to think.
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