Lobster Roll

Stories by toastal

Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer (treeherder.mozilla.org)
L 106 pts 63 comments by toastal Jul 18, 2023 browsersperformance Web DevelopmentData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Zenbleed (lock.cmpxchg8b.com)
L 103 pts 39 comments by toastal Jul 24, 2023 hardwaresecurity Security / PrivacyMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem (ploum.net)
L 97 pts 55 comments by toastal Jan 5, 2026 culturevcs Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Should Lobsters profiles include a/multiple Fediverse links?
L 68 pts 32 comments by toastal Nov 20, 2022 meta thread
Currently there's 4 Fediverse topics on the front page. This suggests there is good interest in these platforms. Currently the Lobsters user profiles have but two proprietary, closed-source, centralized social network platforms: Twitter and GitHub. I think it may be desired by many users to have the...
Death to Scroll Fade (dbushell.com)
L 66 pts 19 comments by toastal Feb 20, 2026 a11ycssweb Web DevelopmentDesign / UX / Visualization thread
The Case for JPEG XL (cloudinary.com)
L 54 pts 23 comments by toastal Nov 3, 2022 graphics thread
Use flake.nix, not Dockerfile (youtu.be)
L 50 pts 27 comments by toastal Aug 1, 2022 nixvideo Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Our interfaces have lost their senses (wattenberger.com)
L 47 pts 45 comments by toastal Mar 16, 2025 design Design / UX / Visualization thread
Google explains why it's removing JPEG XL from the Chromium code base (bugs.chromium.org)
L 46 pts 31 comments by toastal Oct 31, 2022 browsersgraphics Web DevelopmentProgramming (General) thread
The commit that removed it: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/3988999
Blocked by Cloudflare (jrhawley.ca)
L 41 pts 32 comments by toastal Aug 10, 2023 browsersprivacysecurity Web DevelopmentSecurity / Privacy thread
Codeberg is moving ... and what this means to you (blog.codeberg.org)
L 36 pts 0 comments by toastal Nov 14, 2022 vcs Programming (General) thread
The dangers of Microsoft Pluton (gabrielsieben.tech)
L 35 pts 85 comments by toastal Jul 26, 2022 hardwaresecurity Security / PrivacyMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
3 Shifted 3 Shapes: Making a w3m Logo (toast.al)
L 34 pts 2 comments by toastal Dec 31, 2024 design Design / UX / Visualization thread
Semantic Markup for Callouts (toast.al)
L 34 pts 56 comments by toastal Aug 29, 2023 web Web Development thread
Saying Goodbye to GitHub (ersei.net)
L 33 pts 34 comments by toastal Apr 3, 2023 culturevcs Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (2019) (practicaltypography.com)
L 33 pts 43 comments by toastal Mar 1, 2022 artpracticesrant Programming (General)Productivity / Career / BusinessCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Nintendo reportedly issues DMCA takedown for Switch homebrew projects, Skyline Switch emulator development ceased (gbatemp.net)
L 32 pts 41 comments by toastal May 7, 2023 lawreversing Systems / Low-Level / OSGaming / Retro Computing thread
Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment (blog.edfloreshz.dev)
L 32 pts 25 comments by toastal Jan 14, 2022 designlinux Systems / Low-Level / OSDesign / UX / Visualization thread
Nixtamal: Fulfilling, Pure Input Pinning for Nix (nixtamal.toast.al)
L 31 pts 12 comments by toastal Jan 27, 2026 nixshow Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
The boiling frog of digital freedom (gazoche.xyz)
L 28 pts 66 comments by toastal Sep 3, 2023 lawphilosophyprivacysecurity Security / PrivacyCulture / Philosophy / History / ReadingInternet / Digital Culture thread
fwupd 2.0.0 and new tricks (blogs.gnome.org)
L 26 pts 2 comments by toastal Oct 5, 2024 hardwarelinux Systems / Low-Level / OSMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
FSF: Chrome’s JPEG XL killing shows how the web works under browser hegemony (arstechnica.com)
L 26 pts 54 comments by toastal Apr 19, 2023 browsersgraphics Web Development thread
Nine ways to shoot yourself in the foot with PostgreSQL (philbooth.me)
L 25 pts 6 comments by toastal Apr 25, 2023 databases Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Element (Matrix) - Introducing Threads in Beta (element.io)
L 25 pts 16 comments by toastal Apr 23, 2022 release thread
Shortening the Let’s Encrypt Chain of Trust (letsencrypt.org)
L 24 pts 17 comments by toastal Jul 11, 2023 securityweb Web DevelopmentSecurity / Privacy thread
What is your (Neo)Vim + version control for note taking setup?
L 24 pts 32 comments by toastal Apr 15, 2022 askpracticesvim Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread
I'm getting to the point where I can't keep everything in my head. I don't really know how well I trust the SEO on the results I've seen, so I'd like to hear what y'all're doing. ...And no, I'm not going to switch to Emacs just for Org mode :P
Functions are Vectors (thenumb.at)
L 23 pts 0 comments by toastal Jul 30, 2023 compscimath Programming Languages / CS TheoryScience / Math / Physics thread
GradIEEEnt half decent: The hidden power of imprecise lines (youtu.be)
L 23 pts 3 comments by toastal May 2, 2023 mathvideo Science / Math / Physics thread
derw: An Elm-inspired language that transpiles to TypeScript (github.com)
L 23 pts 24 comments by toastal Dec 14, 2021 javascriptml Web DevelopmentProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
Nix Flake Architecture in Practice - A Beginner-friendly Tour (journal.platonic.systems)
L 22 pts 0 comments by toastal Sep 1, 2023 nix Systems / Low-Level / OS thread