Lobster Roll

Stories by amontalenti

On the use of a life (daemonology.net)
AI And The Ship of Theseus (lucumr.pocoo.org)
The BEAM Has Spoiled Me (gvaughn.github.io)
C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete' (lemon.rip)
restic 0.14.0: deduplicating encrypted backup tool now supports compression via Zstandard (restic.net)
Notes From the Meeting On Python GIL Removal Between Python Core and Sam Gross (lukasz.langa.pl)
A Note About Zig Books for the Zig Community (kristoff.it)
GNU and the AI reimplementations (antirez.com)
Lenovo and the new Linux desktop experience (pixelmonkey.org)
Ruby vs Python comes down to the for loop (softwaredoug.com)
Dependency rejection (amontalenti.com)
tmate - Instant terminal sharing (tmate.io)
How I built zig-sqlite (rischmann.fr)
Loving a Log-Oriented Architecture (blog.parsely.com)
Revenge of the Types (by Armin Ronacher) (lucumr.pocoo.org)
bloomd: a Redis-like network daemon for storing bloom filters (github.com)
This project isn't brand new, but I recently discovered it and even deployed it in production for a difficult-to-satisfy use case. Bloom filters are a handy data structure, and implementations tend to exist for every language. But many use cases require scalable (resizable) bloom filters, persist...
LittleTable: A Time Series DB Used by Cisco Meraki Devices for Event Data (dl.acm.org)
“So, you work in IT?” (pixelmonkey.org)
Apache Storm: The Big Reference (blog.parsely.com)
This Team Used Apache Cassandra... You Won't Believe What Happened Next! (blog.parsely.com)
iMessage, explained (jjtech.dev)
We already have a thread for the `pypush` GitHub project here: https://lobste.rs/s/bqaoas/pypush_cross_platform_imessage_poc But, perhaps this link, an explanatory blog post by the author on how iMessage internals were reversed, will be helpful, too. Maybe mods can merge the threads?
The Elements of Python Style (github.com)
"Inside core.async Channels" by Rich Hickey (2014) (youtube.com)
Lucene: The Good Parts (blog.parsely.com)
Twitter's Heron, an API-compatible Apache Storm alternative, is now open source (twitter.github.io)
Efficient query plans for modern hardware (blog.acolyer.org)
Simple Lego Blocks for Big Data (pixelmonkey.org)
quick-clojure: Python utility runs Clojure scripts/REPLs without long JVM startup time (github.com)
Mage: The Magical Time Series Backend at Parse.ly (blog.parsely.com)
Clojonic: Pythonic Clojure (pixelmonkey.org)