Lobster Roll

Stories by bdesham

Some opinionated thoughts on SQL databases (blog.nelhage.com)
L 60 pts 15 comments by bdesham Mar 30, 2021 databases Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Kibibytes are silly and we should all use them (esham.io)
L 50 pts 48 comments by bdesham May 10, 2024 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread
Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on any site (lapcatsoftware.com)
L 50 pts 25 comments by bdesham Jul 5, 2023 browsers Web Development thread
GHC has completed its migration to GitLab (haskell.org)
L 41 pts 4 comments by bdesham Apr 4, 2019 haskell Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Curate your shell history (esham.io)
L 36 pts 15 comments by bdesham Jun 6, 2025 practicesunix Systems / Low-Level / OSProductivity / Career / BusinessCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Safari isn’t protecting the web, it’s killing it (httptoolkit.tech)
L 28 pts 21 comments by bdesham Jul 29, 2021 browsers Web DevelopmentApple / macOS / iOS thread
A case where Rust is safer than Haskell (fpcomplete.com)
L 28 pts 14 comments by bdesham Jan 23, 2019 haskellrust Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
TLS increasingly exists in three different worlds (utcc.utoronto.ca)
L 22 pts 15 comments by bdesham Mar 12, 2020 securityweb Web DevelopmentSecurity / Privacy thread
Normalization of Deviance (foone.wordpress.com)
L 20 pts 3 comments by bdesham Feb 21, 2019 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread
Adventures in upstreaming (jefftk.com)
L 19 pts 20 comments by bdesham Jun 24, 2019 vcs Programming (General) thread
Our keyboard real estate is given over to functions we no longer use (exple.tive.org)
L 19 pts 16 comments by bdesham Dec 17, 2018 designhardwarerant Design / UX / VisualizationMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
The monads of Haskell (markkarpov.com)
L 17 pts 14 comments by bdesham Apr 23, 2019 haskell Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
objc_msgSend’s New Prototype (mikeash.com)
L 16 pts 0 comments by bdesham Oct 11, 2019 objectivec Apple / macOS / iOS thread
Designing headers for HTTP compression (mnot.net)
L 16 pts 0 comments by bdesham Nov 30, 2018 web Web Development thread
Safari releases are development hell (construct.net)
L 14 pts 16 comments by bdesham Apr 4, 2023 iosmacweb Web DevelopmentApple / macOS / iOS thread
EU’s proposed software-security requirements could have a dire impact on open source (devclass.com)
L 13 pts 20 comments by bdesham Jan 25, 2023 law Programming (General)Security / Privacy thread
WebKit features in Safari 16.4 (webkit.org)
L 12 pts 0 comments by bdesham Mar 29, 2023 iosmacweb Web DevelopmentApple / macOS / iOS thread
Verifiable Software Development Estimations (two-wrongs.com)
L 10 pts 3 comments by bdesham Jan 10, 2023 practices Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread
Boolean blindness (runtimeverification.com)
L 9 pts 1 comments by bdesham Mar 7, 2019 haskell Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Compressing a single-color image in various formats (2016) (cloudinary.com)
L 7 pts 0 comments by bdesham Sep 6, 2023 programmingweb Web DevelopmentProgramming (General)Design / UX / Visualization thread
Why I use the Twain web framework (gilmi.me)
L 6 pts 0 comments by bdesham Jul 2, 2023 haskellweb Web DevelopmentProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Supporting “some of the darker alleys of Bash parsing” in the Topiary formatter (tweag.io)
L 5 pts 0 comments by bdesham Feb 13, 2025 programming Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
The Case for Apple to Postpone macOS 10.16 into 2021 (macobserver.com)
L 4 pts 11 comments by bdesham Apr 2, 2020 macpractices Apple / macOS / iOSProductivity / Career / Business thread
Native image lazy-loading for the web (addyosmani.com)
L 4 pts 0 comments by bdesham Apr 11, 2019 browsersdesignweb Web DevelopmentDesign / UX / Visualization thread
Google hopes to start supporting this feature in Chrome 75.
cuid2: Secure, collision-resistant ids optimized for horizontal scaling and performance (github.com)
L 2 pts 11 comments by bdesham Nov 29, 2024 programming Programming (General) thread
Parsing JSON with more context (esham.io)
L 2 pts 0 comments by bdesham Apr 1, 2019 haskell Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Paradux: a scheme to recover from maximum personal data disaster (upon2020.com)
L 2 pts 0 comments by bdesham Jan 12, 2019 practices Programming Languages / CS TheoryProductivity / Career / Business thread
Progressive Web App Progress in iOS 12.2 Beta 1 (medium.com)
L 0 pts 0 comments by bdesham Jan 28, 2019 iosmobileweb Web DevelopmentApple / macOS / iOS thread