🦞🌯 Lobster Roll

*Howdy 🦞, what brings you to these parts? The [music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3QEFQ9ZFis&t=34s)? The tents? The announcement? Fellow talking lobsters? This post? Oh, why yes, that.* Welcome to our wonderful blog carnival! We've been working on this for days, weeks, months, years, decade...

A [blog carnival](https://indieweb.org/blog_carnival) sees everyone write a blog post about a topic and then the host links to them (perhaps with summaries)! I think this would be really fun and many Lobsters have blogs. The submission deadline will be October 1st. (To submit, simply send the hos...

A [blog carnival](https://indieweb.org/blog_carnival) sees everyone write a blog post about a topic. We chose the topic (see below) through a [vote](https://lobste.rs/c/m9pndn). On the 24th of September, I will [post](https://lobste.rs/c/gfkq3p) the carnival thread here where you can link your artic...

Following up on: https://lobste.rs/s/p3wmty/step_right_up_lobsters_blog_carnival Please prepare and PM submissions by March 23rd (or just post yourself on the carnival on April 1st). The topic: Why are different languages better than each other? - Do you want to definitively prove Lisp's super...

Following up on: https://lobste.rs/s/lz7hxw/lobsters_blog_carnival_announcement Please prepare and PM submissions by March 23rd (or just post yourself on the carnival on April 1st). The topic: Why are different languages better than each other? - Do you want to definitively prove Lisp's superi...

 I hope that everybody is having a good holiday, and if not, that you are at least enjoying a great weekend! Thank you to everybody who've contributed great stories and comments th...

I know it's April 1st, the most useless tech news day of the year. But this article had just enough tonque-in-cheek to be worth reading :)

The three-day conference [Øredev](http://oredev.org/2018/home) starts tomorrow. Anyone else going, and possibly interested in meeting up? I for one, am looking forward to the TLA+ talk, courtesy of @hwayne.

### What? Today is the first of May, [International Workers' Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day). ### When? On May 1, 1886 thousands of workers in Chicago [struck and protested](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair) about having an eight hour workday. ...

I don't know how many Lobsters are in NYC, but some of us are up here for another few weeks--would anybody be interested in doing a meatspace lobster gathering?

If anyone's here, say hello. If you're in the Cambridge/Boston area and interested in attending, message me.

I will be working on [pagination](https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/394) tonight at [7 PM US/Central](https://everytimezone.com/?t=5edd7f80,474), when this post is about 9 hours old. I'll stream for 2 to 2.5 hours depending where I find a natural stopping point. I've [streamed myself co...

We're closing out 2023, and I figured it'd be nice to give people a space to say what they're thankful for, what fun they've had, what they plan to do next year, and so-on and so-forth. # Happy New Year!

I'm in Hanoi for next few weeks. If anyone else is too, would be fun to chat about software, programming languages, philosophy - or jam 🎼 - over a salted coffee. To anyone else reading - I recommend a visit, it's a fascinating and energetic place! And it has unbelievable numbers of nicely desig...