Lobster Roll

Stories by LolPython

Small tech (scattered-thoughts.net)
L 138 pts 11 comments by LolPython Dec 13, 2020 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
You should feed the bots (maurycyz.com)
L 87 pts 48 comments by LolPython Oct 26, 2025 web Web Development thread
In Praise of –dry-run (henrikwarne.com)
L 56 pts 19 comments by LolPython Feb 1, 2026 programming Programming (General) thread
Github Stale Bots: A False Economy (blog.benwinding.com)
L 50 pts 32 comments by LolPython May 7, 2021 vcs Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Why is C faster than Java: git vs JGit (2009) (marc.info)
L 32 pts 17 comments by LolPython Dec 21, 2021 cjavavcs Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
Quick VMs with NixOS (galowicz.de)
L 31 pts 0 comments by LolPython Mar 16, 2023 nixvirtualization Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production (youtube.com)
L 30 pts 13 comments by LolPython Sep 27, 2025 nixvideo Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
The Python documentation is bad, and you should feel bad (2013) (cryto.net)
L 29 pts 20 comments by LolPython Oct 17, 2019 programmingpython Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
seccomp — Unsafe at any speed (2022) (blog.habets.se)
L 24 pts 7 comments by LolPython 2d ago linuxsecurity Systems / Low-Level / OSSecurity / Privacy thread
fish: Design document (fishshell.com)
L 21 pts 0 comments by LolPython Aug 21, 2019 unix Systems / Low-Level / OSDesign / UX / Visualization thread
On removing APIs - Linux status bar, GNOME system tray and ElementaryOS AppIndicators (blog.console.dev)
L 18 pts 1 comments by LolPython May 27, 2022 apihistoricallinux Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Attempting to use GNU Guix, again (ruzkuku.com)
L 18 pts 0 comments by LolPython Dec 22, 2021 nix Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
LuaJIT Internals: Intro (0xbigshaq.github.io)
L 17 pts 3 comments by LolPython Nov 11, 2023 luareversing Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
New Wayland Protocol Proposed For Fractional Scaling (phoronix.com)
L 15 pts 7 comments by LolPython May 9, 2022 linux Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
The Twelve-Factor App (2017) (12factor.net)
L 14 pts 7 comments by LolPython Jan 25, 2022 web Web Development thread
State of IPv6 Deployment 2018 (internetsociety.org)
L 14 pts 5 comments by LolPython Mar 9, 2019 networking Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Web Pages Must Live Forever (1998) (nngroup.com)
L 13 pts 2 comments by LolPython Apr 17, 2021 web Web Development thread
Change desktop background image for all desktops (gabrieldougherty.com)
L 12 pts 3 comments by LolPython May 1, 2021 mac Apple / macOS / iOS thread
Discoverability in Emacs (wikemacs.org)
L 12 pts 2 comments by LolPython Jun 21, 2019 emacs Programming (General) thread
Spotify Flatpak Stuck in Fullscreen (gabrieldougherty.com)
L 11 pts 2 comments by LolPython May 2, 2022 linux Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Why is no one using make for Java? (stackoverflow.com)
L 11 pts 8 comments by LolPython Jul 30, 2020 historicaljava Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Nix Based C++ Workflow From Scratch (2021) (breakds.org)
L 10 pts 1 comments by LolPython Feb 13, 2023 nix Systems / Low-Level / OSProductivity / Career / Business thread
Building software on top of Large Language Models (simonwillison.net)
L 9 pts 0 comments by LolPython Jun 15, 2025 vibecoding AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General) thread
The downsides of C++ Coroutines (reductor.dev)
L 7 pts 6 comments by LolPython Aug 12, 2023 c++ Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Things That Surprised Me About CMake (gabrieldougherty.com)
L 7 pts 15 comments by LolPython Jul 23, 2023 c++ Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Detailed Design of a Lock-Free Queue (2014) (moodycamel.com)
L 7 pts 0 comments by LolPython May 15, 2021 scaling Design / UX / VisualizationProductivity / Career / Business thread
Really, really add /usr/local/bin to the PATH variable on macOS (dani.gg)
L 7 pts 3 comments by LolPython Dec 27, 2020 mac Apple / macOS / iOS thread
Django vs. Flask in 2019: Which Framework to Choose (testdriven.io)
L 7 pts 1 comments by LolPython Mar 26, 2020 pythonweb Web DevelopmentProgramming (General) thread
Tools to Bind to Python (iscinumpy.gitlab.io)
L 7 pts 0 comments by LolPython Mar 2, 2020 cc++python Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Django’s Class-Based Views Were a Mistake (2012) (lukeplant.me.uk)
L 7 pts 0 comments by LolPython Oct 16, 2019 practicesprogrammingpython Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread