🦞🌯 Lobster Roll

Stories by vletrmx

YAML: probably not so great after all (arp242.net)
Keyboard recommendations
Please share your favourite keyboards!
Microsoft Advertisement Inc (neil.computer)
New features planned for Python 4.0 (charlesleifer.com)
Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal (youtube.com)
Write out Unicode in Octal (lubutu.com)
Lua 5.4.0 (alpha-rc1) now available (lua-users.org)
Dark/Light mode?
I've seen several sites now that provide a light/dark mode that will change the background from e.g. white to black respectively, and alter the foreground text and other colours to match. Would it be good to add this kind of feature to lobste.rs?
Some Were Meant for C: The Endurance of an Unmanageable Language (cs.kent.ac.uk)
Coroutines in C (chiark.greenend.org.uk)
KolibriOS official site (kolibrios.org)
Hide karma score / Delay updates to karma
Seen lots of meta posts recently, I have an idea, avoid inadvertently giving people highs from the magic internet points by delaying the updates to karma or hiding it altogether, could be optional and disabled by default? The karma is mostly a distraction and if I'm honest I end up getting caught...
dl_platform detection effectively performs "cripple AMD" (sourceware.org)
systemd-openbsd (github.com)
PyCParser (github.com)
History of UNIX Manpages (manpages.bsd.lv)
WINDOWS93 (windows93.net)
BBC Radio 4 - The Digital Human, Series 18, Devotion (bbc.co.uk)
Load-time relocation of shared libraries (2011) (eli.thegreenplace.net)
A history of S_IFMT – Lubutu (lubutu.com)
Position Independent Code (PIC) in shared libraries (eli.thegreenplace.net)
Tiny Yarn -- scenario testing tool for unix utilities (git.sr.ht)