Lobster Roll

Stories by rbr

Just Let Me Select Text (aartaka.me)
L 101 pts 37 comments by rbr Sep 29, 2025 a11y Design / UX / Visualization thread
Examples are the best documentation (rakhim.exotext.com)
L 82 pts 41 comments by rbr Oct 9, 2025 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread
The Best Line Length (blog.glyph.im)
L 55 pts 112 comments by rbr Jan 6, 2026 programming Programming (General) thread
It Is Worth It To Optimize Images For Your Site (brainbaking.com)
L 44 pts 34 comments by rbr Dec 7, 2025 web Web Development thread
My Opinion on Spelling Run Time vs. Run-time vs. Runtime (bobrubbens.nl)
L 43 pts 29 comments by rbr Jan 14, 2026 culture Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
FatNums: An Alternate Representation for School Arithmetic (2020) (parentheticallyspeaking.org)
L 38 pts 8 comments by rbr Sep 12, 2025 educationmath Science / Math / Physics thread
Test your README in a fresh VM (shkspr.mobi)
L 36 pts 11 comments by rbr Oct 7, 2025 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread
Editors should have an opt-in for less assistance (2024) (da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)
L 33 pts 9 comments by rbr Dec 13, 2025 editors Programming (General) thread
Three ways "formally verified" can go wrong (buttondown.com)
L 31 pts 8 comments by rbr Oct 12, 2025 formalmethods Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Writing First, Tooling Second (susam.net)
L 28 pts 9 comments by rbr Jan 18, 2026 culture Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
The European Accessibility Act will make the Web Better for Everyone (denodell.com)
L 24 pts 21 comments by rbr Oct 11, 2025 a11ylawweb Web DevelopmentDesign / UX / Visualization thread
Brownouts reveal system boundaries (jyn.dev)
L 23 pts 0 comments by rbr Nov 20, 2025 testing Programming (General) thread
Why you should probably tell your audience what your blog posts are about as early as possible (marginalia.nu)
L 18 pts 2 comments by rbr Jan 28, 2026 culture Culture / Philosophy / History / ReadingInternet / Digital Culture thread
Deprecate Like You Mean It (entropicthoughts.com)
L 18 pts 17 comments by rbr Dec 11, 2025 programmingsatire Programming (General) thread
My new minimal static site generator (maurycyz.com)
L 17 pts 20 comments by rbr Jan 17, 2026 web Web Development thread
Emacs Wants You to Extend It: Sorting My Reading List (edoput.it)
L 16 pts 0 comments by rbr Sep 12, 2025 emacs Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Splitting a long string in lines using AVX2 (lemire.me)
L 13 pts 3 comments by rbr Sep 13, 2025 performance Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Structural inheritance doesn't work where you expect it to (trynova.dev)
L 11 pts 23 comments by rbr Dec 7, 2025 plt Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Storing Unwise Amounts of Data in JavaScript Bigints (jonathan-frere.com)
L 10 pts 3 comments by rbr Sep 21, 2025 javascriptperformance Web DevelopmentData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Generating Mazes with Three Algorithms (healeycodes.com)
L 8 pts 0 comments by rbr Sep 15, 2025 programming Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Automatic Syntax Error Recovery (2020) (tratt.net)
L 6 pts 5 comments by rbr Nov 22, 2025 compilers Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
Procedural Rhetoric: Opinions as Algorithms (entropicthoughts.com)
L 6 pts 0 comments by rbr Sep 23, 2025 cogsciphilosophy Programming Languages / CS TheoryScience / Math / PhysicsCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Speeding up HTML generation by 2000% (bobrubbens.nl)
L 4 pts 1 comments by rbr Feb 24, 2026 programming Web DevelopmentProgramming (General) thread
I no longer have only one OS on all my devices (btxx.org)
L 4 pts 1 comments by rbr Dec 13, 2025 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread
On Programming Languages as Languages (2014) (programmingzen.com)
L 4 pts 3 comments by rbr Oct 26, 2025 programming Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Finding fuzzy floats (2017) (nedbatchelder.com)
L 4 pts 0 comments by rbr Sep 23, 2025 programming Programming (General) thread
Vibe coding a sponsor panel (xeiaso.net)
L 2 pts 1 comments by rbr 2d ago vibecoding AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General) thread
The roots of software development in the textile industry (2024) (asawicki.info)
L 2 pts 0 comments by rbr Oct 25, 2025 historical Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Hallucinations are inevitable but can be made statistically negligible (doi.org)
L 2 pts 3 comments by rbr Oct 19, 2025 ai AI / Machine Learning thread
Hierarchical field sort with string interning (nullprogram.com)
L 2 pts 0 comments by rbr Sep 25, 2025 programming Programming (General) thread