~lobsters | Bookmarks (2034)

17 hours ago

The Right Kind of Stubborn

paulgraham.com

philosophy
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18 hours ago

Can jank beat Clojure's error reporting?

jank-lang.org

Hey folks! I've spent the past quarter working on jank's error messages. I've focused on reaching...
Hey folks! I've spent the past quarter working on jank's error messages. I've focused on reaching parity with Clojure's error reporting and improving upon it where possible. This has been my first quarter spent working on jank full-time and I've been so excited to sit at my desk every morning and get hacking. Thank ...

c++clojure compilers plt
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21 hours ago

Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Python

jyn.dev

time for everyone's favorite game!! what does this code do? return return False does it: return...
time for everyone's favorite game!! what does this code do? return return False does it: return None return False throw an exception exit the process without printing anything something even more devious sit with it. have a good think. explain your answers. ready? ok fine what does it do returns False. want to know ...

python
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21 hours ago

Intro to Alpine.js: A JavaScript framework for minimalists

infoworld.com

I recently backpacked through Big Sur, and after a few days, the inevitable happened: I looked...
I recently backpacked through Big Sur, and after a few days, the inevitable happened: I looked at everything I carried and demanded it justify its presence in my backpack. Making tech choices during the software development process is similar. Every asset in the system adds complexity, so everything better be pullin...

javascript
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21 hours ago

Handling form errors in htmx

dev.to

FROM time to time I hear a criticism of htmx that it's not good at handling...
FROM time to time I hear a criticism of htmx that it's not good at handling errors. I'll show an example of why I don't think that's the case. One of the common operations with htmx is submitting an HTML form (of the type application/x-www-form-urlencoded) to your backend server and getting a response. The happy pat...

coding development engineering htmx javascript
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21 hours ago

The problem with OOL is not the OO.

rebol.com

plt programming
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22 hours ago

Compress Better, Compute Bigger | ironArray SLU

ironarray.io

Have you ever experienced the frustration of not being able to analyze a dataset because it's...
Have you ever experienced the frustration of not being able to analyze a dataset because it's too large to fit in memory? Or perhaps you've encountered the memory wall, where computation is hindered by slow memory access? These are common challenges in data science and high-performance computing. The developers of B...

performance
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22 hours ago

Data demand some damn respect.

taylor.town

compilers rant
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23 hours ago

What are you doing this weekend? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help...
Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

ask programming
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1 day ago

~runxiyu/dlcage - Safeishly use non-reentrant libraries with POSIX threads - sourcehut git

sr.ht
1
1 day ago

Apple Needs a Snow Sequoia

ofb.biz

apple bugs clean up ios ipados
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1 day ago

The way we're thinking about breaking changes is really silly

bearblog.dev

api programming
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1 day ago

SpecTec has been adopted - WebAssembly

webassembly.org

Published on March 27, 2025 by Andreas Rossberg. Two weeks ago, the Wasm Community Group voted...
Published on March 27, 2025 by Andreas Rossberg. Two weeks ago, the Wasm Community Group voted to adopt SpecTec for authoring future editions of the Wasm spec. In this post, I’ll shed some light on what SpecTec is, what it helps with, and why it takes Wasm to a new level of rigor and assurance that is unprecedented ...

plt wasm
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March 27

XMPP

xmpp.org

The European Digital Markets Act (DMA) is designed to break down walled gardens and enforce messaging...
The European Digital Markets Act (DMA) is designed to break down walled gardens and enforce messaging interoperability. As a designated gatekeeper, Meta—controlling WhatsApp and Messenger—must comply. However, its current proposal falls short, risking further entrenchment of its dominance rather than fostering genui...

law web
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March 27

oss-sec: Three bypasses of Ubuntu's unprivileged user namespace restrictions

seclists.org

devops security
1
March 27

Atom vs. RSS

nullprogram.com

browsers web
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March 27

Things that go wrong with disk IO | notes.eatonphil.com

eatonphil.com

There are a few interesting scenarios to keep in mind when writing applications (not just databases!)...
There are a few interesting scenarios to keep in mind when writing applications (not just databases!) that read and write files, particularly in transactional contexts where you actually care about the integrity of the data and when you are editing data in place (versus copy-on-write for example). We'll go into a fe...

databases linux
2
March 27

GitHub - cloud-gouv/securix: Sécurix is a NixOS-based secure operating system tailored for small to medium-sized teams. It provides a minimal, hardened environment with strong isolation, reproducib...

github.com

nix
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March 27

Ruby Central's OSS Changelog: March 2025

rubycentral.org

Hello! Welcome to the March newsletter—now known as Ruby Central’s OSS Changelog.As mentioned in our previous...
Hello! Welcome to the March newsletter—now known as Ruby Central’s OSS Changelog.As mentioned in our previous newsletters, we will now be sending out separate updates for the Open Source Program and general Ruby Central organization and community news.You can expect our general Ruby Central newsletter (the Ruby Cent...

release ruby
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March 27

Pile of Eternal Rejections: The Cost of Garbage Collection for State Machine Replication – Aleksey Charapko

charap.co

I have a “pile” of papers that continuously get rejected from any conference. All these papers,...
I have a “pile” of papers that continuously get rejected from any conference. All these papers, according to the reviews, “lack novelty,” and therefore are deemed “not interesting” by the reviewing experts. There are some things in common in these papers — they are either observational or rely on old and proven tech...

performance plt
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March 27

Tag Proposal: logicprogramming | Lobsters

lobste.rs

Logic/constraint programming like Prolog, Datalog comes up enough to not need further justification. Name: logicprogramming ;...
Logic/constraint programming like Prolog, Datalog comes up enough to not need further justification. Name: logicprogramming ; is there a shorter but still fitting term? “Declarative” has a nicer shape, but I think it’s too broad. “Rule-based” could work but it’s not common. Because there’s only a small space to work with, even logicprog seems tempting. Description: “Prolog, Datalog, Horn clauses, Answer Set Programming…” ;...

meta
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March 27

Spade | Spade Hardware Description Language

spade-lang.org

Spade is a new hardware description language which makes hardware description easier and less error-prone. It...
Spade is a new hardware description language which makes hardware description easier and less error-prone. It does this by taking lessons from software programming languages, and adding language level support for common hardware constructs, all without compromising low level control over what hardware gets generated...

hardware plt
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March 27

Why Great Engineering Orgs Thrive on "Normal" Engineers

ieee.org

A version of this post originally appeared in Refactoring, a Substack offering advice for software engineers....
A version of this post originally appeared in Refactoring, a Substack offering advice for software engineers. Most of us have encountered a few software engineers who seem practically magician-like, a class apart from the rest of us in their ability to reason about complex mental models, leap to nonobvious yet elega...

big tech engineering careers practices productivity software development
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March 27

Piranesi’s Perspective Trick

medium.com

art drawing graphics perspective
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