Lobster Roll

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The First Time I Was Almost Fired From Apple (engineersneedart.com)
41 pts 14 comments by isuffix Aug 10, 2025 designhistorical Design / UX / VisualizationApple / macOS / iOSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package (righto.com)
30 pts 0 comments by calvin Aug 9, 2025 hardwarehistoricalreversing Systems / Low-Level / OSMaker / DIY / HardwareCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering (2008) (prog21.dadgum.com)
35 pts 12 comments by runxiyu Aug 9, 2025 historical Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Lobsters Interview with Hwayne
65 pts 10 comments by veqq Aug 8, 2025 formalmethodsinterviewperson Programming Languages / CS TheoryCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems (tenfourfox.blogspot.com)
21 pts 3 comments by strugee Aug 7, 2025 historicalmac Apple / macOS / iOSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Version Museum: visual history of popular websites and software (versionmuseum.com)
5 pts 0 comments by soulseeder Aug 7, 2025 designhistorical Programming (General)Design / UX / VisualizationCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Live coding sucks (hadid.dev)
50 pts 27 comments by xyproto Aug 7, 2025 cultureprogramming Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes (pavpanchekha.com)
4 pts 9 comments by ehamberg Aug 6, 2025 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Bag of words, have mercy on us (experimental-history.com)
20 pts 5 comments by oliverpool Aug 6, 2025 philosophyvibecoding AI / Machine LearningCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
cosmopolitan: build-once run-anywhere c library (github.com)
11 pts 6 comments by mighmi Aug 6, 2025 ccompilers Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Rod Burstall: In Memoriam (arxiv.org)
9 pts 7 comments by felixyz Aug 5, 2025 historicalpersonplt Programming Languages / CS TheoryCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
How did 8088/86 PCs implement flood-fill before SSE and GPUs? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
4 pts 0 comments by azeemba Aug 5, 2025 graphicshistorical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Pragmatism in Programming Proverbs (gingerbill.org)
10 pts 0 comments by gingerBill Aug 5, 2025 philosophyprogramming Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
More retrocomputing, less nostalgia (datagubbe.se)
43 pts 12 comments by inactive-user Aug 4, 2025 philosophyretrocomputing Gaming / Retro ComputingCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Governance in GNOME (bassi.io)
9 pts 0 comments by calvin Aug 3, 2025 historicalpractices Productivity / Career / BusinessCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
People still use our old-fashioned Unix login servers (utcc.utoronto.ca)
37 pts 19 comments by runxiyu Aug 3, 2025 historicalunix Systems / Low-Level / OSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
candyfloss: an ergonomic python library for running video pipelines (git.hella.cheap)
16 pts 10 comments by bobpoekert Aug 2, 2025 python Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself (skeptrune.com)
11 pts 2 comments by skeptrune Aug 1, 2025 culture Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Lobsters Interview with Icefox
85 pts 9 comments by veqq Aug 1, 2025 interviewperson Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Books about Lisp's "beauty"?
19 pts 18 comments by dzwdz Jul 30, 2025 askbooklisp Programming Languages / CS TheoryCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
RFC 862: Echo Protocol (datatracker.ietf.org)
5 pts 7 comments by cve Jul 30, 2025 historicalnetworking Data / Databases / InfrastructureCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
I want to defend Wayland here and explain a crucial piece that I think people are missing (ordinary.cafe)
69 pts 71 comments by icefox Jul 30, 2025 graphicshistorical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Printing a Book at Home with Minimal Equipment (huijzer.xyz)
73 pts 29 comments by rikhuijzer Jul 29, 2025 educationhistoricalshow Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Modern Games vs Old Games | Lost Technology Edition (youtube.com)
5 pts 3 comments by friendlysock Jul 28, 2025 gameshistoricalvideo Gaming / Retro ComputingCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Jeopardy! world (hauleth.dev)
9 pts 0 comments by hauleth Jul 28, 2025 culturevibecoding AI / Machine LearningCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
From XML to JSON to CBOR (cborbook.com)
15 pts 15 comments by icefox Jul 28, 2025 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading
The many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade (buttondown.com)
20 pts 0 comments by aapoalas Jul 28, 2025 historicaljavascript Web DevelopmentCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
[trane] (lisp.trane.studio)
36 pts 10 comments by veqq Jul 28, 2025 artlisp Programming Languages / CS TheoryCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation (3rd edition) (plai.org)
32 pts 8 comments by nextos Jul 28, 2025 booklisppdfplt Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
The Chaos of AI Agents (youtube.com)
4 pts 1 comments by epidemian Jul 27, 2025 artvibecodingvideo AI / Machine LearningCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading