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I benchmarked Podman against Docker for my self-hosted stack: startup is a tie, pasta won every throughput run, dockerd idles at 144 MB.
Tailwind v4: Oxide Rust engine, 182x incremental builds, CSS config
Tailwind CSS v4 uses Rust-powered Oxide, moves config to CSS @theme directives, and builds 5x faster. Update utilities and convert config to CSS.
Web font subsetting: cut payload by 90% with variable fonts
Cut web font payloads 70-85% with variable fonts and pyftsubset subsetting, CSS unicode-range, zero-layout-shift loading, and a CI setup.
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