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Back on a static site?!

It's been a minute, eh?

I've finally had the motivation to spend the last few days migrating back to Eleventy. I'm now well hooked into the Vercel ecosystem as well as a result. Not happy about that, but trade-offs! You always make them.

For someone who gets overwhelmed easily with the scale of tasks like these, Claude has been an immense help in making this move happen.

I'm most excited for the fact that I've been able to migrate the "likes" feature, including current counts.

Builds take less than 30 seconds, images are still served in AVIF/WEBP formats, and I have a couple of convenience bash scripts to create a new article post + rename files to reflect the final post title before publishing.

I'm relatively happy with the design, this is something that had been sitting in my drafts for over 2 years. Might tinker with it over the next few months to be a little more expressive, but for now, this works. 🙂

Equally excited to keep up with web standards and such in a low-stakes environment. 🐢

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Sources: Alibaba and ByteDance plan to order Huawei's new 950PR AI chip after tests show better CUDA compatibility; Huawei targets ~750K 950PR shipments in 2026 (Reuters)

Reuters:
Sources: Alibaba and ByteDance plan to order Huawei's new 950PR AI chip after tests show better CUDA compatibility; Huawei targets ~750K 950PR shipments in 2026  —  Customer testing of Huawei's new AI chip, designed to challenge Nvidia (NVDA.O) in the China market, has gone …

tozero launches Europe’s first industrial battery recycling plant


The Munich startup’s demo plant at Chemical Park Gendorf in Bavaria processes 1,500 tonnes of battery waste a year and produces 100 tonnes of high-purity lithium carbonate, at costs the company says are twice as competitive as conventional miners. A full-scale facility capable of 45,000 tonnes per year is planned for 2030. Europe has a […]



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Sources: Moonshot AI may scrap its Cayman structure for a China or Hong Kong entity to prepare for a Hong Kong IPO and plans to raise funding at ~$18B valuation (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Moonshot AI may scrap its Cayman structure for a China or Hong Kong entity to prepare for a Hong Kong IPO and plans to raise funding at ~$18B valuation  —  Markets will be watching to see if the company can replicate the success of recent listings by other Chinese AI companies

Meta's Oversight Board says Community Notes aren't a proper substitute for fact checking, and warns expanding them beyond the US could pose human rights risks (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)

Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
Meta's Oversight Board says Community Notes aren't a proper substitute for fact checking, and warns expanding them beyond the US could pose human rights risks  —  On Thursday, Meta's Oversight Board, a quasi-independent body that reviews the social media giant's moderation practices …