Lobster Roll

Stories by huytd

How Bitwarden encrypts your data (huy.rocks)
Teaching an LLM a Niche Diagraming Language (huy.rocks)
I did an experiment to train Qwen2.5-Coder-7B on a niche diagraming language, and the model was able to generate syntactically correct code 86% of the time. This post outlined the process and decisions I took during the training process. I think it might be helpful to share it here to get feedbac...
Zig Strings in 5 minutes (huy.rocks)
Build a better Bookshelf (huytd.github.io)
The Best To-Do List System (huytd.github.io)
A web-based todo list that makes you productive without leaving your keyboard (pomoday.com)
Hi fellow Lobsters, I was building this project for a while now. Was heavily inspired by Taskbook, a command line task management tool. But it lacks of the features I need, so I decided to build one. I tried keep it simple and not adding too much UI, features, just some essential thing that al...
On studying mathematics (vnhacker.blogspot.com)
What are some good light theme for editor?
As the title said. Some of you might use a light theme, what are some good one you're recommended? I'm using doom-one-light, but I dim the background a bit to #ecf0f1
I made a tool to help you search Git log more easily (github.com)
A combination of Hasklig and IBM Plex Mono font (github.com)
I like the italic style of IBM Plex Mono, but didn't like the slants for regular style, so I made a combination of my daily used Hasklig font and IBM Plex Mono. I hope some of you lobsters will love this as well!
Load light or dark theme based on time of the day (blog.jft.rocks)
Writing Emacs module in Rust (github.com)
Streaming chess matches from your terminal (github.com)
Programming pearls (1986) (archive.org)
A retro style online SSH client to play Nethack (nethack.glitch.me)
I made a small web-based SSH client to play Nethack. With the `?retro=true` param, you can have a nice old-school terminal style. You can access it here https://nethack.glitch.me/?retro=true By default, it's connecting to nethack.alt.org (NAO) server, but there's the `?host=...&user=...` para...
sequencegenius - Generate sequence diagrams from your idea (github.com)
Being lazy turned out to be good (jft.rocks)
Can you hide your internet browsing activity if you're using school/company's device?
Let's say, if you're using a managed device (library device, or employer's phone/laptop) in your home network. Could you hide your internet traffic from them? Does using Tor help? Does setting up your own VPN help?
How to use AI to help brainstorming and exploring architecture before building (docs.chatuml.com)
comby-search: A code search tool based on Comby (github.com)
A CoffeeScript playground in 60 lines of CoffeeScript (github.com)
FE engineers, how do you debug on IE?
It's my day job working on the FE, and a part of it is debugging on IE sometimes. You know, if you're on macOS or Linux and have to debug some IE errors, the only choice is to install Windows on a VM and debugging using IE's built-in developer tool. That solution never works for me, poor perfo...
A brief walkthrough on how TypeScript implemented Inlay Hints (huy.rocks)