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Why do I find Rust inadequate for text compression codecs?**
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Standards for ANSI escape codes
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Git in Zed, natively
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Improving Your Development Cycle with REPLs
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vtm: Text-based desktop environment
video demonstration of it in action

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How To Get A Common Lisp Job In 2055
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JavaScript best practice: use return await
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Apple has 90 days to allow app sideloading in Brazil
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How to distrust a CA without any certificate errors
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AstroNvim, an aesthetically pleasing and feature-rich Neovim config
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Creating static map images with OpenStreetMap, Web Mercator, and Pillow
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The Balatro Timeline
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Balancing the costs of count(*) and UX
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How to Write Useful Commit Messages
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Pre Java 1.0: The Oak Language Specifications
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Qt 6 for C & Zig
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Why Local-First Software Is the Future and its Limitations
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Else Considered Smelly
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Pick the wrong tool for the job
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OSS maintainers: what’s the most audacious work a company has ever asked you to do for free?**
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Great software design looks underwhelming
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The Landscape of Lisp
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CSS Form Control Styling Level 1
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Zig's dot star syntax (value.*)
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The "ultimate" Thinkpad X230
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The Einstein AI model (why AI won't bring a "compressed 21st century")
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What are you doing this weekend?**
Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback.

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GSM8K-Platinum: Revealing Performance Gaps in Frontier LLMs
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Delta Chat: A Messenger which is cross compatible with email and PGP
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Opsgenie is reaching its end of life soon
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Ten Machine Requirements To Satisfy Essentials Of Joint Activity
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Algebraic effects are a functional approach to manage side effects
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awesome-embedded-rust: Curated list of resources for Embedded and Low-level development in the Rust programming language
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Five years of home-cooked apps
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(2009) Composing J in my mind
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Systems Correctness Practices at AWS: Leveraging Formal and Semi-formal Methods
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From unique to cleanups and weak: new low-level tools for efficiency
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Succinct data structures
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Types as a design tool
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To B or not to B: B-Trees with Optimistic Lock Coupling
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Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology
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Distributed Systems without Raft (part 1)
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xit is coming
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We’re fixing Edge Computing: Introducing Magic Containers
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Chat Bots Revisited
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My changes to the default Phoenix boilerplate
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Writing an OLED display driver in MicroZig
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The Causal Testing Framework
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Testing Causality in Scientific Modelling Software
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50 years in filesystems: 1984
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Let's Take a Look at... KIP-932: Queues for Kafka
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The case of the vanishing CPU: A Linux kernel debugging story
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xdg-ninja: A shell script which checks your $HOME for unwanted files and directories
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Is it true what they say: "Lobsters love Guinness"?**
Found in an Irish Pub in Barcelona.

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Manage UPS on FreeBSD
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A good memory allocator in 200 lines of code
Hi Lobsters,

I know people here may be tired of seeing too many Zig stories, but, I think this is a legitimately cool discovery that transcends programming language turf wars.

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Git without a forge
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Take a break: Rust match has fallthrough
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constantly divisionless random numbers
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What if we just didn’t decompress it?**
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In Defense of Text Labels
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Generality
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A Happy Day for Rust
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Basecamp release Github extension for offline CI signoff
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dude, where are your syscalls?**
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Rocket Science of Simulation Testing - HYTRADBOI2025
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Lynx: Unlock Native for More
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BBC Micro emulation directly in the browser
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Cross-platform floating-point determinism out of the box
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Floating Points & Boxes
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Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton receive 2024 Turing Award for developing foundations of reinforcement learning
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The Pitchfork Story
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Trigon: developing a deterministic kernel exploit for iOS
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bad apple but it's ssh keys
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Zig 0.14.0 Release Notes
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A Plea for more Mikado - Software Engineering and Stuff
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A Map of Python
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"As Code"
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Answer Set Programming 01 | Just the Facts
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Cobalt Networks CobaltOS: Proxmox Port
Cobalt Networks “RaQ” and “Qube” products were rather popular with ISP’s, web hosting companies and small/medium businesses in the 90’s and 2000’s. Their operating system media was preserved via the Internet Archive but getting it running on regular hardware is an extremely difficult task as the OS was never released for installation on 3rd-party hardware.

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Bayleaf: Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard
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Lean 4, release v4.17.0
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Encoding Hangeul, Koreas writing system
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Miners on CI/CD pipelines for Drone/Gitlab servers with open registrations
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Tailscale is pretty useful
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Why fastDOOM is fast
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HYTRADBOI 2025 postmortem
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Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
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Solving SICP
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Performance optimization, and how to do it wrong
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The Hierarchy of Hazard Controls
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Triangle of Separation
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Performance Debugging with llvm-mca: Simulating the CPU
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The Web Should Be A Conversation
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hue.tools: An open source toolbox for colors
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How To Test And Measure Content In UX
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Thaiger Sprint 2025: Starring H2O, the HTTP server (& dropping Nginx)
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Falsehoods programmers believe about languages
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TigerBeetle Architecture
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