Featured image of post How a Company Wins Gold in Web Design Competitions to Prove Strength: A 2026 Survey of International and Chinese Awards

How a Company Wins Gold in Web Design Competitions to Prove Strength: A 2026 Survey of International and Chinese Awards

A survey of 2025-2026 international and Chinese web design competitions — Awwwards, CSS Design Awards, FWA, Webby, iF, Red Dot, D&AD, A' Design Award, Golden Pin, GDC, DIA — distinguishing rolling (enter anytime) from annual (wait for cycle) awards, and giving the optimal strategy for a company to win gold/first place. All time-sensitive facts verified by 3-vote adversarial verification or direct official-site capture.

C Drive Full but WSL Says Otherwise? The "Grow-Only" Virtual Disk Trap — Reclaiming 150 GB in One Pass

Windows reported 652 GB used on the C drive, but df inside WSL showed only 135 GB. Where did the other 500+ GB go? The culprit turned out to be WSL2 and Docker Desktop vhdx files, which grow but never shrink: deleting files only marks space free internally, the file itself stays large. This post documents the hunt and the diskpart compact fix that reclaimed 150 GB.

Featured image of post The Complete Guide to Getting a .edu Email in 2026: Legitimate Paths, Unlocked Perks, and Pitfalls

The Complete Guide to Getting a .edu Email in 2026: Legitimate Paths, Unlocked Perks, and Pitfalls

Starting from a now-unreadable Zhihu tutorial — the old 'fake a US identity and register at a community college' playbook is dead in 2026: California community colleges saw 34% fraudulent applications in spring 2025, forcing mandatory ID.me identity verification from July 2026. This guide, verified by 6 parallel research agents, covers every legitimate path (California OpenCCC/CCCApply across five colleges, Arizona Maricopa incl. Rio Salado, North Carolina CFNC, University of the People, WGU/SNHU/ASU), 13 student perks and their 2026 verification mechanics (GitHub uses its own webcam verification, not SheerID; JetBrains approves on .edu domain alone; Canva is actually K-12 teacher-invite-only), the grey-market scam economy, the clear line between legitimate and fraudulent, and a practical guide for applicants outside the US. 60+ sources reviewed; unverified claims marked.

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