Lobster Roll

Without filters, vibecoding is 1/3 of the front page. This is bad. Potentially -.35 if need be.

I am resurrecting [Lobsters interviews](https://lobste.rs/t/interview). Although the interview becoming the next interviewer is a really cool conceit, it didn't pan out for longevity. This is the result of one and a half hours talking to [technomancy](https://lobste.rs/~technomancy). ([Icefox](ht...

I am targeting a fortnightly cadence, going forward. @susam and @zdsmith will be next. I spoke with @matklad for a few hours, resulting in this feast! Thank you to him and my proof readers! ---- **Hi Matt!** My name is not in fact Matt. **Oh.** But I'm lax about my name. Anything unam...

A [blog carnival](https://indieweb.org/blog_carnival) sees everyone write a blog post about a topic and then the host links to them (perhaps with summaries)! I think this would be really fun and many Lobsters have blogs. The submission deadline will be October 1st. (To submit, simply send the hos...

A [blog carnival](https://indieweb.org/blog_carnival) sees everyone write a blog post about a topic. We chose the topic (see below) through a [vote](https://lobste.rs/c/m9pndn). On the 24th of September, I will [post](https://lobste.rs/c/gfkq3p) the carnival thread here where you can link your artic...

*Howdy 🦞, what brings you to these parts? The [music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3QEFQ9ZFis&t=34s)? The tents? The announcement? Fellow talking lobsters? This post? Oh, why yes, that.* Welcome to our wonderful blog carnival! We've been working on this for days, weeks, months, years, decade...

The following interview covers Rust and compilers, source control and monorepos, community engagement and vibe coding. @steveklabnik and I had the pleasure of speaking a few times over a few months. He wrote the Rust Book, a lovely [Jujutsu tutorial](https://steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tutoria...

**Hi @susam, I primarily know you as a Lisper, what other things do you use?** Yes, I use Lisp extensively for my personal projects, and much of what I do in my leisure is built on it. I ran a [mathematics pastebin][] for close to thirteen years. It was quite popular on some IRC channels. T...

Last week, [icefox](https://lobste.rs/~icefox) and I exchanged some messages and here's the result! ([Hwayne](https://lobste.rs/~hwayne) and [matklad](https://lobste.rs/~matklad) are next.) ---- > Introduce yourself a bit! (Work? Common threads?) Sooooo the common threads in my life have ...

For this [interview](https://lobste.rs/t/interview), I spoke with [hwayne](https://lobste.rs/~hwayne) a few times. Last week, we talked to [icefox](https://lobste.rs/s/2vfx6w/lobsters_interview_with_icefox), next week we'll hear from [matklad](https://lobste.rs/~matklad). Thank you to my proof re...

Following up on: https://lobste.rs/s/p3wmty/step_right_up_lobsters_blog_carnival Please prepare and PM submissions by March 23rd (or just post yourself on the carnival on April 1st). The topic: Why are different languages better than each other? - Do you want to definitively prove Lisp's super...

Name: "logic-lang" Description: "Prolog, Datalog, miniKanren, ASP etc. using clauses" Category: languages ; like apl or concatenative as it's a paradigm Similar tags: databases, ai This is a programming paradigm encoding rules with clauses, related to relational calculus. Hwayne: > (T...

Category: Languages Name: concatenative Description: stackbased languages like Forth, Factor, Joy A tag would be really useful, because these languages have unhelpful names like forth, factor, joy so most search hits are... not relevant. A tag would let us even find these stories and disambigu...

It'd be nice to hear about interesting ones around the world. Particularly smaller ones e.g. for APL or Gleam.

I know @Aks from IRC. He works on KDE Software, has made many lovely games and I even use his [colorscheme](https://codeberg.org/akselmo/Revontuli) in my terminal! **Please introduce yourself!** I'm Akseli but I usually go as [Aks](https://akselmo.dev/about/) on the internet. I'm in my 30s and...

Or seen from someone else!

I had the pleasure of interviewing and befriending @zdsmith whose passions are very close to my heart. He explores the different forms of notation (Iverson, Naur), makes [combinatory programming](https://tacittalk.com/2024/09/27/Episode-5.html) approachable, ported [J to Janet](https://jnj.li/), cre...

Trimmed the spam title, which the author even hates.

I spent most of 2024 writing a (n incomplete) book on software architecture. I learned a lot about DSL design, array languages, naming, notation, information architecture and of course normal architecture (also many other things). The densest insights emerged from: - How Buildings Learn - Stew...

This is like Fennel, but for C - letting you write C code in lisp, here are some [examples](https://github.com/janet-lang/spork/tree/cjanet-jit/examples/cjanet) (which double as documentation).

Here's an example end product: https://x.com/greg_ash/status/1824218993118388708 There's an academic paper on this DSL and its implementation: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3677996.3678285

> Obituary for the greatest monument to logical AGI. After 40 years, 30 million rules, 200 million dollars, 2000 person-years, and many promises, Cyc has failed to reach intellectual maturity, and may never will. Exacerbated by the secrecy and insularity of Cycorp, there remains no evidence of its g...