Lobster Roll

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Lobsters interview with David Chisnall
Hi everyone! Long ago Lobsters used to run [interviews on active users](https://lobste.rs/t/interview). I thought that was a great idea but noticed it hadn't happened for some time. I thought about which lobster I'd most like to see interviewed and immediately thought of [David Chisnall](https://lob...
Go is not an easy language (arp242.net)
Coding Stories: Me vs. The VNC Guy (martinrue.com)
Should I Block Ads? (shouldiblockads.com)
Add downvote reason, "unkind"?
Lately I've been a bit put off by the abrasive tone in a decent part of the comments, both towards submission content and in reply to other comments. It seems wrong to downvote such comments as "troll", since they often have a sensible core message, even though that comes closest. So, in the spirit ...
"We can't send mail farther than 500 miles from here" (2002) (web.mit.edu)
TabFS (omar.website)
Leaving the Freedesktop.org community (vt.social)
Context: I wrote the Apple Silicon (M1/M2) GPU kernel driver (the first real/production Rust Linux driver) for Asahi Linux. I left the project due to Luna's abuse and manipulation of the Linux GPU maintainer, who went out of her way to DM my fiancee to express support for Luna. It seems this now ext...
How did you rediscover your software mojo?
Hello fellow crustaceans, About five years ago, I left a good job at a good company because I did not believe in the things we were making, and could not bring myself to make them. I called my manager (I'm in the UK, he was in the USA), crying because I had spent two days opening my IDE at 9am, s...
What Happens Next Will Amaze You (idlewords.com)
Talk from Maciej (from pinboard.in) on advertising
Use Firefox in 2025 (alexn.org)
What's your current yak-shaving depth?
As I prepare to go on vacation, was thinking about where I am with my side-projects. I know I have a predisposition to [yak shaving](http://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb/old-archive/gsb-archive/gsb2000-02-11.html), but just now realized I'm in six levels deep. My current stack is: 1. __Make a color ...
Announcing the Hare programming language (harelang.org)
Zig And Rust (matklad.github.io)
Anyone can login as root on macOS (twitter.com)
The Server Doesn't Render Anything (unplannedobsolescence.com)
Make Frontend Shit Again (makefrontendshitagain.party)
Backdoor in popular event-stream NPM repo (github.com)
What's your distro, and how did you pick it?
After two years of using my company-issued MacBook for personal things, I'm setting up a personal laptop for personal things, which I hope to be able to do more of during lockdown. Now faced with the choice of distro, I noticed I've never been very deliberate with this. My personal history: * ...
The Copilot Delusion (deplet.ing)
Myna: monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages (github.com)
How Litestream Eliminated My Database Server for $0.03/month (mtlynch.io)
Stupid light software (arp242.net)
A Response to Hello World (doxsey.net)
How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer (spectrum.ieee.org)
YouTube Blocks Blender Videos Worldwide (blender.org)
How to be a nice programmer (kennydodrill.net)
John Perry Barlow, EFF founder, has died (eff.org)
What is the "boring technology" solution for running multiple containers on a single host in production in 2024?
I feel like this is such a common pattern at this point that there should be a *much* clearer go-to solution than there is. OCI containers are the lingua franca of software distribution now -- why does it seem like the only option for deploying them that claims to be "production ready" is Kubernetes...
The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen (buttondown.email)