### What?
Today is the first of May, [International Workers' Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day).
### When?
On May 1, 1886 thousands of workers in Chicago [struck and protested](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair) about having an eight hour workday. ...
Stories by friendlysock
Midweek fun question, welcome to everybody who wants to try something new.
Blank sheet of paper, tabula rasa, fuck POSIX, burn bridges.
You've been given the chance to help design a new OS. What sorts of things are you looking for? What new (or stolen) features are going in? What are you looki...
I hope that everybody is having a good holiday, and if not, that you are at least enjoying a great weekend!
Thank you to everybody who've contributed great stories and comments th...
Hey folks!
I was watching a thread [yesterday](https://lobste.rs/s/egbgwb/introducing_conjure_palantir_s) and was frankly _really appalled_ by the level of discourse. As we've grown in headcount (now over 10K lobsters, I think), it's probably useful to bring that up for discussion.
Some observ...
Inspired by a conversation on #lobsters, I was wondering what sorts of tiny projects fellow Lobsters might have for getting comfortable in a language or learning a particular technique.
Ideally, something that should take maybe a free evening or two to get finished.
Thoughts?
Sick as I am of having the front page covered in Rust--because apparently we can't spell crustaceans without rust--I do have a genuine curiosity about how people use it and what they get out of it.
Rather than watching the inevitable blogspam call-and-response, let's try to answer the original qu...