Lobster Roll

Stories by ehamberg

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons (tonsky.me)
L 236 pts 72 comments by ehamberg Jan 5, 2026 designiosmac Design / UX / VisualizationApple / macOS / iOS thread
Gleam version 1 (gleam.run)
L 167 pts 28 comments by ehamberg Mar 4, 2024 erlanggleamrelease Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Magit 4.0 released (emacsair.me)
L 111 pts 12 comments by ehamberg Aug 10, 2024 emacsrelease Programming (General) thread
Tricking the tricksters with a next level fork bomb (vidarholen.net)
L 111 pts 14 comments by ehamberg Jun 26, 2019 unix Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
An app can be a home-cooked meal (robinsloan.com)
L 108 pts 26 comments by ehamberg Feb 15, 2020 programming Programming (General) thread
Announcing Rust 1.85.0 and Rust 2024 (blog.rust-lang.org)
L 100 pts 11 comments by ehamberg Feb 20, 2025 releaserust Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
“Elixir is, officially, a gradually typed language” (nitter.net)
L 94 pts 25 comments by ehamberg Jan 9, 2024 elixir Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Popular git config options (jvns.ca)
L 92 pts 38 comments by ehamberg Feb 16, 2024 vcs Programming (General) thread
What’s up with all those equals signs anyway? (lars.ingebrigtsen.no)
L 88 pts 10 comments by ehamberg Feb 3, 2026 email Internet / Digital Culture thread
What exactly was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]? (vidarholen.net)
L 88 pts 16 comments by ehamberg Apr 12, 2021 historicalunix Systems / Low-Level / OSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
PNG is back (programmax.net)
L 87 pts 17 comments by ehamberg Jun 26, 2025 graphicsweb Web Development thread
Beware the Google Password Manager (fasterthanli.me)
L 86 pts 11 comments by ehamberg Jul 3, 2020 security Security / Privacy thread
Announcing Rust 1.87.0 and ten years of Rust (blog.rust-lang.org)
L 83 pts 17 comments by ehamberg May 15, 2025 releaserust Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Lessons learned from writing ShellCheck, GitHub’s now most starred Haskell project (vidarholen.net)
L 83 pts 28 comments by ehamberg Feb 9, 2020 haskell Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
The fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010 was 20 bytes (hachyderm.io)
L 70 pts 6 comments by ehamberg Oct 7, 2025 iosreversing Systems / Low-Level / OSApple / macOS / iOS thread
Pandoc 3.0 released (pandoc.org)
L 70 pts 13 comments by ehamberg Jan 19, 2023 release thread
Voxel Displacement Renderer — Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic (blog.danielschroeder.me)
L 68 pts 5 comments by ehamberg May 24, 2024 graphics Gaming / Retro Computing thread
This month in Servo: dark mode, keyword sizes, XPath, and more (servo.org)
L 67 pts 2 comments by ehamberg Jan 10, 2025 browsers Web Development thread
Examining btrfs, Linux’s perpetually half-finished filesystem (arstechnica.com)
L 66 pts 46 comments by ehamberg Sep 24, 2021 linux Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Vim 9.2 released (vim.org)
L 63 pts 20 comments by ehamberg Feb 14, 2026 releasevim Programming (General) thread
Happy 20th birthday OpenTTD (openttd.org)
L 60 pts 1 comments by ehamberg Mar 6, 2024 games Gaming / Retro Computing thread
Idris 2 version 0.2.0 Released (idris-lang.org)
L 57 pts 7 comments by ehamberg May 25, 2020 compilersrelease Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
Taco Bell Programming (widgetsandshit.com)
L 54 pts 45 comments by ehamberg Nov 30, 2015 practicesunix Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread
Ditch your version manager (juliu.is)
L 53 pts 27 comments by ehamberg Sep 17, 2021 programming Programming (General) thread
Pijul 0.12 released (discourse.pijul.org)
L 52 pts 14 comments by ehamberg Apr 22, 2019 releasevcs Programming (General) thread
Automerge 3.0 (automerge.github.io)
L 51 pts 1 comments by ehamberg Jul 15, 2025 distributedrelease Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
The Optimizations in Erlang/OTP 27 (erlang.org)
L 50 pts 1 comments by ehamberg Apr 23, 2024 erlang Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Erlang/OTP 22.0 is released (erlang.org)
L 49 pts 3 comments by ehamberg May 14, 2019 erlangrelease Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Erlang/OTP 24 Highlights (blog.erlang.org)
L 48 pts 2 comments by ehamberg May 12, 2021 erlangrelease Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Make LLVM fast again (nikic.github.io)
L 48 pts 13 comments by ehamberg May 10, 2020 compilers Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread