~lobsters | Bookmarks (1995)

linux, year one

neocities.org

linux
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the limb-metaphor for simplicity

explaining.software

September 3, 2024 In their paper on Evolvability, Marc Kirschner and John Gerhart discuss the separation...
September 3, 2024 In their paper on Evolvability, Marc Kirschner and John Gerhart discuss the separation of concerns within our genetic code. They pay special attention to limbs: The limb is a complex structure with precisely placed bone, cartilage, muscle, nerves, and vascular elements, and one might think it is di...

philosophy programming
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GitHub - tusharsadhwani/zigimports: Automatically remove unused imports and globals from Zig files.

github.com

zig
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Licensing is packaging

keygen.sh

A couple of weeks ago, I had a conversation on X with Chef co-founder Adam Jacob...
A couple of weeks ago, I had a conversation on X with Chef co-founder Adam Jacob about software packaging. I was explaining how going source-available had driven Keygen Cloud's 2x growth over the last year. Adam argued that the growth probably wasn't due to becoming source-available but rather the change in packagin...

law
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GitHub - luke8086/retronews: TUI browser for HN and Lobsters emulating classical Usenet and mail readers

github.com

show unix
2
How to deadlock Tokio application in Rust with just a single mutex

turso.tech

rust
1
Python Programmers' Experience

two-wrongs.com

The Python Developers Survey 2023 has an interesting result that is incorrectly reported. By incorrectly, I...
The Python Developers Survey 2023 has an interesting result that is incorrectly reported. By incorrectly, I mean the raw data is there, but there is no attempt at presenting it in a meaningful way. I’m talking about the professional experience level of Python programmers. The buckets here are unequal in size, meanin...

culture
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An overview of Cloudflare's logging pipeline

cloudflare.com

One of the roles of Cloudflare's Observability Platform team is managing the operation, improvement, and maintenance...
One of the roles of Cloudflare's Observability Platform team is managing the operation, improvement, and maintenance of our internal logging pipelines. These pipelines are used to ship debugging logs from every service across Cloudflare’s infrastructure into a centralised location, allowing our engineers to operate ...

logs observability practices
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Setting up a cache server for apt packages

qmacro.org

devops linux virtualization
2
Greppability is an underrated code metric

morizbuesing.com

practices programming
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🧄 Sexy Werner Herzog 🧄 (@bean@twoot.site)

twoot.site

rant unix
1
Department of Computer Science and Technology – Technical reports: UCAM-CL-TR-81

cam.ac.uk

William Robert Stoye December 1985, 151 pages This technical report is based on a dissertation submitted...
William Robert Stoye December 1985, 151 pages This technical report is based on a dissertation submitted May 1985 by the author for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the University of Cambridge, Magdalene College.DOI: 10.48456/tr-81 Abstract In recent years functional programmers have produced a great many good ...

hardware lisp
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Coloring Korean Keystrokes: 11'172 Characters

sam.today

While building my Korean typing practice game type.sam.today, I wanted to do something that seemed really...
While building my Korean typing practice game type.sam.today, I wanted to do something that seemed really simple; change the text’s color key-by-key as you type it. While this is really simple for English, Korean’s writing system Hangul combined multiple syllables into a single character, complicating this task: Thi...

design
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Oneiblog

oneirical.github.io

You descend into the pit of exit codes and one-character flags, The sunken abyss of the...
You descend into the pit of exit codes and one-character flags, The sunken abyss of the Makefiles, The mill of 11-year-old legacy scripting. The writhen shell commands serve in adoration, Immured beneath a rotten run-make directory. Before you lies the servitor of order, The cleaver, The redeemer, The recreator, The...

rust
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My coding experience with LLM — kokada

kokada.dev

I don't want to talk about AI. AI fatigue is real, with (garbage) AI content everywhere...
I don't want to talk about AI. AI fatigue is real, with (garbage) AI content everywhere you go. However, I like to talk about tools, and AIs, or more specifically, Large Language Models (LLM), can be really useful tools. Maybe someday we will have our AI overlords dominating everything (including my job), but right ...

ai
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Departure Mono

departuremono.com

design font monospace pixel retro
2
Logic and Computation Intertwined

uwaterloo.ca

formalmethods lisp
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The Latency/Throughput Tradeoff: Why Fast Services Are Slow And Vice Versa

danslimmon.com

Special thanks to the graceful and cunning Ben Ng for consulting on this post. I’m finally...
Special thanks to the graceful and cunning Ben Ng for consulting on this post. I’m finally getting around to reading that DevOps* book everybody’s been raving about, Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems. My verdict so far: it’s pretty good. Here’s one of the first passages to jump out to ...

distributed
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Reasons to write design docs | nicole@web

ntietz.com

Monday, September 2, 2024Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is...
Monday, September 2, 2024Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English. It's half true, though, since my job is as much about people and communciation as it is about technology. Probably more, actually. Writing is useful at all levels of software engineering. It's not just so...

practices
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2024-08-31 ipmi

computer.rip

I am making steady progress towards moving the Computers Are Bad enterprise cloud to its new...
I am making steady progress towards moving the Computers Are Bad enterprise cloud to its new home, here in New Mexico. One of the steps in this process is, of course, purchasing a new server... the current Big Iron is getting rather old (probably about a decade!) and here in town I'll have the rack space for more ma...

hardware
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Nearly-Optimal Mergesorts: Fast, Practical Sorting Methods That Optimally Adapt to Existing Runs

wild-inter.net

Powersort replaces Timsort’s merging policy in the Python library! If you are using a cutting-edge version...
Powersort replaces Timsort’s merging policy in the Python library! If you are using a cutting-edge version of Python you are running powersort whenever you sort a Python list. More precisely, both the CPython reference implementation of the Python programming language, and PyPy, a widely used alternative making heav...

compsci
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Opinions for Writing Good CSS

andrewwalpole.com

css
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the spatula

thespatula.io

This is part of a series where I’m working towards building a game from scratch using...
This is part of a series where I’m working towards building a game from scratch using Rust. By scratch, I mean using only the standard library as much as possible. So far, the only thing that has been somewhat of a cheat was creating io_uring bindings. If you don’t want to listen to me prattle on for pages, you can ...

networking rust
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On distributed systems

superdurszlak.dev

Briefly speaking, a software or computer system could be considered a distributed system as long as...
Briefly speaking, a software or computer system could be considered a distributed system as long as parts of said system run on individual devices, and at least some of them need to communicate over a network rather than via local loopback, shared memory and/or data storage. Distributed systems distinguish themselve...

distributed practices
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