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🧩 Gitmal – Static Pages Generator for Git Repositories
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🔗 Don’t Click Here
A concise, actionable guide that underscores how clear link text improves both accessibility and content quality across the web.
This article encourages writers and web designers to replace vague link text like “click here” with descriptive hyperlinks that clearly convey purpose and destination. Doing so enhances usability, accessibility, and SEO. The author demonstrates this with real-world examples and practical rewriting advice.
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📚 Entering the Public Domain in 2026
A thoughtful exploration celebrating cultural works as they become freely accessible, while illuminating the intricate landscape of global copyright law and open access.
The Public Domain Review showcases major works that will become public in 2026, including those by authors who died in 1955 or 1975 and U.S. works first published in 1930. Presented as an advent-style calendar, it highlights new additions each December day leading up to Public Domain Day on January 1st.
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🔒 Let’s Encrypt to Shorten Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days
A major step toward continuous, automated web security—though one that demands strong renewal automation from system administrators.
Let’s Encrypt will reduce SSL/TLS certificate validity from 90 to 45 days by 2028, aligning with CA/Browser Forum standards. The goal is to improve web security and streamline revocation. The rollout will include gradual adoption, a new DNS-PERSIST-01 validation method, and guidance for users to automate renewals effectively.
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🐚 FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Now Available
A milestone release that strengthens FreeBSD’s role in modern infrastructure with expanded architecture coverage and deeper cloud integration.
FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE introduces official builds for amd64, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures. The release includes installation media via ISO, USB, and SD card images, signed checksums, and prebuilt images for AWS, Google Cloud, and major virtualized environments.
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