🦞🌯 Lobster Roll

Stories by ngoldbaum

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me (theshamblog.com)
The secret inside One Million Checkboxes (eieio.games)
Guido van Rossum steps down as Python BDFL (mail-archive.com)
Working with strings in Rust (fasterthanli.me)
Advent of Code 2018 (adventofcode.com)
The 2018 Advent of Code competition is starting soon. Advent of Code is a code advent calendar. Each day unlocks a new programming challenge. You score points by completing the challenges quickly. I've created a lobsters leaderboard for this year that you can join with code 224033-122b1da6. To se...
A data model for Git (jvns.ca)
Ubuntu drops Unity for Gnome in 18.04 LTS (insights.ubuntu.com)
Advent of Code 2019 (adventofcode.com)
The 2019 Advent of Code competition is starting soon. Advent of Code is a code advent calendar. Each day unlocks a new programming challenge. You score points by completing the challenges quickly. I’ve created a lobsters leaderboard for this year that you can join with code 224033-6a270b9d. To se...
Scaling One Million Checkboxes to 650,000,000 checks (eieio.games)
Why does punching Sonic 3D trigger a Secret Level Select? (youtube.com)
A Case Study in Not Being A Jerk in Open Source (destroyallsoftware.com)
Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in vim (eieio.games)
Developing our position on AI (recurse.com)
sr.ht adds experimental mercurial support (man.sr.ht)
CPython tail-call interpreter merged for Python 3.14, a 10% speedup in benchmarks (docs.python.org)
I bought some awful light bulbs so you don't have to (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
Hypothesis is now thread-safe (hypothesis.works)
Tag suggestion: Fortran
I found [this story](https://lobste.rs/s/ik2xzt/nasa_spins_up_high_performance_computing) and after submitting half-jokingly thought there should be a fortran tag. It turns out that there is actually quite a lot of Fortran discussion going on (285 results!): https://lobste.rs/search?utf8=%E2%9C%9...
The impossible dream of USB-C (marco.org)
Developer laptop that's not a macbook?
With the [rumors about the new Macbook Pro](http://www.macrumors.com/2016/10/25/images-of-new-macbook-pro-leaked/) not exactly making me excited, I'm curious if anyone has any suggestions for developer laptops. In my experience Apple is basically unmatched in terms of build quality and durability. D...
*THE* classic Unix horror story (lug.wsu.edu)
Discord vs IRC Rough Notes (push.cx)
The Fantasyland Code of Professionalism is an abuser's fantasy (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
Programmer at Large: What is this? (drmaciver.com)
A tiny short story about software licenses from the point of view of the distant future.
Makin' wavs with Zig (blog.jfo.click)
Tiers of answers to half-baked questions (blog.plover.com)
Python startup time: milliseconds matter (mail.python.org)
LIGO detects gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes (journals.aps.org)
See also this summary of the paper from the astrobites blog: http://astrobites.org/2016/02/11/opening-our-ears-to-the-universe-ligo-observes-gravitational-waves/ Since the PRL site is getting hammered, here's an alternate link to the paper: https://dcc.ligo.org/public/0122/P150914/014/LIGO-P15091...
The first year of free-threaded Python (labs.quansight.org)
One million chessboards (onemillionchessboards.com)