Lobster Roll

lobste.rs entered read-only mode earlier today to migrate from MariaDB to SQLite. I found that interesting and found this GitHub issue with discussion, first around moving to PostgreSQL, then about moving to SQLite: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/539 This is exactly the kind of inter...

I think this is important enough to have a thread about in lobsters. It seems like Freenode is preventing channels from mentioning libera.chat in their topic, and nuked a whole bunch of channels which did yesterday. Here's an excerpt from one of the affected channels, #go-nuts: ``` 11:20 <mor...

So, this is no long and insightful write-up, but I still think it's worth writing a few words about and submitting here. I recently needed to compile Chromium for work. Chromium has a total of 76924 C and C++ files. A single complete compile, with 32-bit ARM as the target architecture, on a build...

Recently, I've started to feel the pain of not having a central place to store general documentation where I work. I mean, for individual software projects, a readme in the git repository is usually enough, but there are times when you would like to document something which doesn't naturally live in...

As most of you know, Firefox will soon drop support for "legacy" extensions, and Vimperator, Pentadactyl, and Mouseless Browsing are all incompatible with Firefox 57. I just recently ported my modest alternative to those extensions to WebExtensions, and figured that some of the people on lobste.rs c...

A while ago, [Lobsters started hiding "fresh but boring" comment scores](https://lobste.rs/s/yrb1ja/experiment_with_hiding_fresh_boring). Personally, I haven't found this change to be great, for a couple of reasons: 1. It really doesn't make sense that I can't see how my own comment is doing f...

I wanted to find out how nice of a unit testing "DSL" I could make by abusing the C preprocessor, and I think the result isn't too bad. One notable feature are the Go-inspired defer functionality, which I think makes tearing down tests really nice, and makes teardown basically "just work" even wh...

I linked my Snow testing library here on lobste.rs two days ago, [and got a ton of great feedback](https://lobste.rs/s/un88in/ive_been_toying_with_making_testing), a lot of which I have incorporated into the library. I figured it would be fun to write up some of the more obscure C features I lear...

This might not be useful to most people, but it's probably really useful for some people. I've been doing a bunch of embedded and embedded-ish development for work and otherwise, and it's useful to not need a separate keyboard connected to the device just to poke graphical applications now and then....

I've been annoyed that Mac (and Windows?) users have been able to write math in their launcher, while I with my i3wm and dmenu couldn't. I decided to do something about that today. mmenu is a short script intended to be a replacement for dmenu_run. It works the same, executing the program you sel...

Many tools written in node.js just use a JSON file (or a JSON-like file, like yaml or hjson) for configuration. That works well for some stuff (except JSON; that's generally a pain to write and has no comments), but they're all sorely missing a way to spread your configuration out across multiple fi...

I just encountered this article. I found it to be very nice, and figured I should share it.

I've been annoyed for a while that Firefox only supports the kind of two finger scrolling where moving the fingers on the touch pad a decent amount emits a scroll wheel event. I just now found out that if you start Firefox with the environment variable MOZ_USE_XINPUT2 set to 1, it will use xinput 2,...

I'm posting this here because I know a lot of you guys, like me, uses window managers, and thus probably have encountered some of the challenges this tries to solve; displays and input devices not being as plug-and-play as they should be.

I went through the process of actually learning how to make a Makefile a while ago, and it wasn't a very fun experience. There was very little information about how to actually make a good Makefile for a C project; there were lots of tiny examples, and a lot of theory about how make works, but very ...

It's interesting that [Xmake was posted here](https://lobste.rs/s/hqcpgr/xmake_modern_c_c_build_utility) just before I planned to post Smake, but having read through what Xmake does, it looks like there's space for both Smake and Xmake in the world (and maybe even on lobste.rs). The two projects...