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A project called The Website Specification is gaining quiet traction on Hacker News, pulling in over fifty points and a thread of discussion. The idea is straightforward but pointed — that the web has drifted so far from shared standards that someone needs to write down what a website actually is. It raises a fair question about who gets to define that, and whether consensus is even possible anymore.
Shifting gears, Apple's configuration language Pkl has surfaced again in developer circles. It's Apple's attempt to replace the chaos of YAML and JSON with something that has real validation, tooling, and structure baked in. Configuration might sound unglamorous, but bad config has taken down more systems than bad code, which makes this worth watching carefully.
And on a more sobering note, The Economist has published an interactive essay on what it calls the dangerous delusion of modern warfare — arguing that political leaders and the public hold deeply flawed assumptions about how contemporary conflicts actually unfold. It's not a tech story in the narrow sense, but technology is reshaping the battlefield faster than doctrine can follow, and that gap has consequences for all of us.
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