Lobster Roll

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Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading

is tech inevitable (deviantabstraction.com)
Nix Steering Committee vote of no confidence (haskellforall.com)
Systems Programming with Zig (manning.com)
Shellshock (2014, 2025) (dwheeler.com)
LLM Inference Economics from First Principles (tensoreconomics.com)
Tell Me a Story (content.subvisual.com)
Avalanche Studios NYC Retrospective – An Ambitious Company Ruined by Bad Development Practices (probablydance.com)
A statement from members of the NixOS moderation team (discourse.nixos.org)
go-landlock: A Go library for the Linux Landlock sandboxing feature (github.com)
Handling Negative Feedback (youtu.be)
We've all had enough of this nonsense (world.hey.com)
Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel (dfarq.homeip.net)
A Very Early History of Algebraic Data Types (hillelwayne.com)
The Wind, a Pole, and the Dragon (entropicthoughts.com)
Knotty: A domain-specific language for knitting patterns (t0mpr1c3.github.io)
Temporal_rs is here! The datetime library powering Temporal in Boa, Kiesel, and V8 (boajs.dev)
Moving fast in hardware: how the iPod shipped in 6 months (hscott.net)
Apples, Trees, and Quasimodes (systemstack.dev)
What if Humanity forgot how to make CPUs? (youtube.com)
Procedural Rhetoric: Opinions as Algorithms (entropicthoughts.com)
Why was WinHelp called an online help system when it ran offline? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Hacker Laws (hacker-laws.com)
Altoids by the Fistful (scottsmitelli.com)
Elite: "The game that couldn't be written" (youtube.com)
Some observations concerning large programming efforts (1964) (dl.acm.org)
Steve Jobs, Jef Raskin, and the first great war for your thumbs (2023) (aresluna.org)
How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner (anniemueller.com)
Diagram Chasing (diagramchasing.fun)
The free software commons (2024) (jenniferplusplus.com)
I Once Appeared in The Old New Thing (mtlynch.io)