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    CSS Bed offers classless CSS themes for developers●CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web developmentYhnEnvironmentOceans16738 min ago

    CSS Bed is a new resource collecting classless CSS themes that developers can drop into plain HTML and use as starting points for web projects, without adding classes or build tooling. The collection is aimed at prototyping and simple sites, letting developers pick a stylesheet, apply it directly, and customise from there. It is drawing attention from the web development community, where classless stylesheets have a small but steady following for quick, dependency-free styling.

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    Apple's Pass Designer, a developer tool for creating digital passes for Apple Wallet, is getting renewed attention from the developer community. The tool lets developers design and style coupons, event tickets, boarding passes and store cards for iOS. Discussion centres on how useful the web-based designer remains for building Wallet passes without third-party libraries.

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    Developer launches old-school forum built on open protocol●Show HN: An old school forum on an open protocol – your identity is a keypairYhnBusinessCrypto1724 min ago

    A developer has launched an old school forum running on an open protocol, where each user's identity is a cryptographic keypair rather than a username tied to a central service. Early reactions are drawing comparisons to classic web forums and to decentralized networks like Nostr, with discussion focusing on whether keypair-based identity could make online communities more portable and censorship-resistant.

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    The growing world of reverse-engineered video game ports▼Reverse-engineered games: All the news on video game decomps, recomps, VR and web and 3D ports✉newsCultureGaming31 min ago

    The Verge has compiled coverage of the reverse-engineering scene, where fans decompile and recompile classic video games to create unofficial ports for PC, VR, browsers and 3D platforms. The roundup gathers reporting on decompilation and recompilation projects, a community effort that keeps older games playable on modern hardware without official developer support.

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    IANA restructures example.com page to cut bandwidth●IANA changed example.com on 28 September 2026 from a static English page to a basic HTML page plus a separate JavaScriptMmastodonTechnologyInternet21 h ago

    IANA updated example.com on 28 September 2026, splitting its single static English page into a basic HTML document plus a separate JavaScript file that adds the notice in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish. The change was documented in DebugBear's change history, and IANA says the split reduces bandwidth. Internet infrastructure observers are discussing the update and its implications for one of the web's best-known reserved domains.

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    Guide Circulates on Setting Up SOCKS5 Proxy Servers for Automation●In the world of high-stakes automation—be it web scraping at scale, multi-account management, or... # ai # webdev # progMmastodonTechnologySoftware42 h ago

    Developers are sharing a technical walkthrough on setting up a SOCKS5 proxy server for automation work, covering use cases such as large-scale web scraping, multi-account management, and related engineering tasks. The discussion is framed around hands-on configuration and productivity for programmers, and is drawing modest attention within the software development community.

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