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EpicInfographics skill for Claude dodges the AI look

EpicInfographics skill for Claude draws your data inside a scene instead of a card grid, with nine design languages and animated MP4 and GIF output.

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EU AI Act rules and deadlines for developers in 2026

EU AI Act compliance deadlines moved in July 2026. High-risk rules now start December 2027, but bans, GPAI duties and AI labeling already apply.

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OfficeCLI turns 50 lines of Python into a single command

OfficeCLI lets AI agents edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files from one binary, and renders them to HTML or PNG so the agent can check its own work.

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Dive into LLMs has 11 free chapters and no open license

The Dive into LLMs course ships 11 hands-on chapters with slides and notebooks, all in Chinese, with no license file and no update since October 2025.

CSS @scope retires BEM, CSS Modules, and CSS-in-JS

CSS @scope retires BEM, CSS Modules, and CSS-in-JS

CSS @scope scopes selectors to DOM subtrees, retiring BEM naming conventions and CSS Modules build tooling with pure native CSS scoping.

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DeepSeek V4-Pro runs 39x cheaper than Claude Opus 5

DeepSeek V4-Pro pricing runs about 39x cheaper per task than Claude Opus 5 for a 10-point intelligence gap, and it ships open weights under MIT.

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Make Opus 5 less verbose with an output style and a hook

Make Opus 5 less verbose with a custom output style, a UserPromptSubmit hook, and fewer CLAUDE.md rules. The env var everyone shares backfires.

What X and Reddit users are saying about Claude Opus 4.7

What X and Reddit users are saying about Claude Opus 4.7

How power users on X and Reddit reacted to Claude Opus 4.7: praise for agentic coding, token burn concerns, and teams' practical prompting habits.

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Run FLUX 2 locally in 2026: VRAM by GPU + ComfyUI setup

Run FLUX 2 locally in ComfyUI. VRAM by GPU from 8GB to 24GB, GGUF builds, the variant that fits your card, cost versus cloud, and the files to grab.

Alacritty vs. Kitty: best high-performance Linux terminal

Alacritty vs. Kitty: best high-performance Linux terminal

Alacritty vs Kitty in 2026: emoji and Unicode rendering, benchmarks, latency, memory, maintainer reputation, and the right terminal for you.

Hyprland vs Sway vs COSMIC: best Wayland compositor for developers in 2026

Hyprland vs Sway vs COSMIC: best Wayland compositor for developers in 2026

Compare Sway, Hyprland, and COSMIC Wayland compositors. Covers tiling models, display handling, plugin ecosystems, and stability for your workflow.

Running Gemma 4 26B MoE on 8GB VRAM: three strategies that work

Running Gemma 4 26B MoE on 8GB VRAM: three strategies that work

Run Google Gemma 4 26B MoE on a budget 8GB GPU using aggressive quantization, GPU-CPU layer offloading, and tensor parallelism.

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Local image models in 2026: Qwen vs FLUX vs SDXL on VRAM

Compare the best local image generation models on text-in-image accuracy, prompt adherence, VRAM, speed, and license to find your sweet spot.

AI coding benchmarks in 2026: why the leaderboard you pick decides the winner

AI coding benchmarks in 2026: why the leaderboard you pick decides the winner

AI coding benchmarks produce wildly different rankings. Which models win depends on which benchmark you choose and which agent framework wraps them.

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