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Today's topics:

Standards-based website quality checklist - Specification.website proposes a standards-first baseline for a “good website,” spanning accessibility, security, performance, and AI crawler readiness, with machine-readable outputs like MCP.

AI shifts value to domain expertise - An essay argues agentic AI makes code generation easier but correctness harder, pushing engineers toward deeper domain expertise and better validation habits.

AV2 codec decoding arrives early - VideoLAN’s new dav2d software decoder targets the AV2 royalty-free codec, helping browsers and players handle a heavier decode workload before hardware catches up.

Open fonts and accessible typography - Shantell Sans, an open variable font from Shantell Martin and ArrowType, aims for friendly, legible design and broad language coverage via Google Fonts and OFL licensing.

Post-quantum crypto learning materials - Alfred Menezes released extensive lattice-crypto notes explaining NIST-standard Kyber and Dilithium, helping teams prepare for post-quantum migration beyond RSA and ECC.

Visual guide to differential geometry - A diagram-heavy arXiv paper offers an equation-light path into differential geometry, connecting geometric intuition to physics ideas like Maxwell’s equations.

DIY bird audio recognition dashboard - A Raspberry Pi project forked from BirdNET-Pi turns ambient audio into a shareable bird-detection dashboard, blending open-source classifiers with playful visualization.

Minimalist terminal breathing coach - breathe-cli is a simple open-source terminal pacer for slow resonance breathing, emphasizing safety constraints and transparent behavior instead of app-like complexity.

London’s public rooftop terraces reality - A London walk-through shows “free public” rooftop terraces can be real civic value—or feel fragile—depending on booking rules, closures, and design choices.

-Specification.website Publishes Standards-Based Checklist for Building Better Websites
-London’s Free Roof Terraces Expand, but Access and Closures Limit the Promise
-Agentic AI Shifts Software’s Moat From Coding Skill to Domain Expertise
-VideoLAN Announces dav2d, an Open-Source Fast AV2 Video Decoder
-Shantell Martin and ArrowType release Shantell Sans, an open-source variable font for accessible, expressive typography
-ArXiv Paper Teaches Differential Geometry Visually to Depict Maxwell’s Equations as Three Pictu