🦞🌯 Lobster Roll

A pretty simple userscript that adds an expand/collapse button that shows/hides children comments. I built it because I've noticed that as more users actively participate in discussions, it can be a little annoying to scroll past some of the bigger comment chains (like the main one on [the ruby c...

How I set up a new machine, as a literate programming document using Emacs' Org mode. It has a bootstrapping problem that I've sought to minimise as much as possible, hence _slightly_ weird order of things, but I'm pretty happy with it. I welcome pointers to how I can do the System Preferences bi...

repl.it released support for Emacs Lisp: https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1143595381789347840 So I thought I'd dust off my old elisp hack and post it here. Instructions: 1. Go to https://repl.it/repls/UnluckySturdyCharactercode 2. press the run button 3. evaluate (setq-local lexical-...

I hacked this together last night after trying a number of time-tracking/Pomodoro apps and realizing I disliked all of them and could just make one that fits my style. The goals for the tool are: _simplicity_, a _command-line interface_, and an optional plaint-text logging format that lends itself s...

So I've been working on a Lobsters iPhone app over the past day or so and I think I'm going to turn it into a full blown app. I've been working with jcs to get a basic JSON API going that I can build this on top of and we've already got a basic version working that lets you browse links on the front...

Check out my side project [https://domainregret.com/]. This is a marketplace for when you have domains you've been sitting on for a while that totally sounded like a good idea at 2am and you were a tad bit drunk but now you're not so certain. I'm trying to work out the kinks and get some feedback!

I was [asked to link](https://lobste.rs/s/pu55v6/ask_lobsters_what_are_you_working_on/comments/s4457f) when I finished my book project; printing took a couple weeks longer than expected. I'll write up a more technical blog post and leave a link as a comment here in a few days, but the high-level ver...

After seeing the sublime plugin (https://github.com/jisaacks/GitGutter) and getting a little jealous I decided to write my own version for vim. Still in beta status, and sadly not async - but that's on the roadmap to being fixed.

Worked on this at $dayjob, and we open sourced it yesterday. Initial driving requirements were: * Use as part of proof-of-concept testing with a 3rd party memcache proxy that speaks only the binary protocol * Work well with darner/kestral queues and nosql datastores (via proxies like couchbas...

So, I made this. It's a readable feed reader that promotes interesting content based on articles you vote for. This is not a finished product, I'm trying this "release early" thing hoping to get some opinions. The timing seems right with Google Reader disappearing. Readable.cc is open-source (...