Lobster Roll

All Programming (General) 8174 Systems / Low-Level / OS 6628 Programming Languages / CS Theory 4253 Data / Databases / Infrastructure 3844 Web Development 2758 AI / Machine Learning 2324 Security / Privacy 2166 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading 2105 Productivity / Career / Business 1500 Maker / DIY / Hardware 1281 Gaming / Retro Computing 995 Design / UX / Visualization 914 Science / Math / Physics 836 Apple / macOS / iOS 697 Internet / Digital Culture 331 Health / Fitness / Lifestyle 24 Crypto / Blockchain 10

Productivity / Career / Business

Our efforts, in part, define us (weakty.com)
What was the longest time you ever took to return to a software project?
Programs/utilities (especially small ones) with funny/crude acronyms for their name?
Organize your Slack channels by “How Often”, not “What” (aggressivelyparaphrasing.me)
Prototype-First Software Design With Agents (serce.me)
dbos: Durable Workflow Orchestration with Go and Postgresql (github.com)
Urgency vs importance (archaeologist.dev)
The Case for Hybrid Cache for Object Stores (risingwave.com)
Starless: How we accidentally vanished our most popular GitHub repos (elastic.co)
The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review (meks.quest)
An open letter to the Rails Core team and Ruby community (github.com)
What Does Actual Functional Programming Look Like? (jerf.org)
JRuby and JDK 25: Startup Time with AOTCache (blog.headius.com)
Google continues to invest 350k in the Rust ecosystem (linkedin.com)
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity (hbr.org)
Some observations concerning large programming efforts (1964) (dl.acm.org)
Tips for Working with Legacy Code (esveo.com)
IndiaFoss 2025 Video Livestream (fossunited.org)
Microstacks or megadependencies over at Webdevcon 2025 (berthub.eu)
Hacking with AI SASTs: An overview of ‘AI Security Engineers’ / ‘LLM Security Scanners’ for Penetration Testers and Security Teams (joshua.hu)
7 Stages of Software Tech Stack Adoption (You're Probably in Stage 5) (robbyonrails.com)
Against the protection of stocking frames (ethanmarcotte.com)
The common sense unit of work (blog.nilenso.com)
The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management (blog.nilenso.com)
Three decades in kernelland (youtu.be)
Access logging in 2025 (neugierig.org)
Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration (2019) (kentcdodds.com)
When Values Eat Their Young: How Ideal-Driven Groups Drift into Their Own Shadow (kennethreitz.org)
How I Use AI (timkellogg.me)
Trusting builds with Bazel remote execution (blogsystem5.substack.com)