LLM-assisted coding is not deterministic. It doesn't matter.
We often treat determinism and predictability as synonyms, but they are not the same. A system...
Smolwebifying my site | AksDev
I found this thing called smolweb and it spoke to me. Like yeah, websites are quite...
TuxTower
Table of Contents Over the holidays, I decided as a side project to build a dactyl...
The world’s most complex machine - Works in Progress Magazine
The phones we carry around in our pockets have two million times more memory and are...
Swissing a table · Phil Pearl's Blog
This is me sitting at a table in Switzerland. Photo by author’s wife, who is fabulous...
Why C Remains the Gold Standard for Cryptographic Software - wolfSSL
For production cryptographic software, memory safety alone does not define security. Real-world crypto must run on...
Removing the AUICGP instruction
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing...
What are you doing this weekend?
Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help...
Comparing compression tools
I’d like to know what the “best” compression tool is for storing archives (backups, data files)....
Basic Type System Terminology
17 Aug 2025 Type systems have terms with well defined meanings. Unfortunately many of the people...
Gmail: Bringing easy end-to-end encryption to all businesses | Google Workspace Blog
Senior Product Manager, Google WorkspaceProduct Manager, Google WorkspaceGet a business email, all the storage you need,...
Introducing mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE
By Robert Smith mine is a brand new IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp, built from...
Cloudflare Email Service is a deliverability bet dressed as an agents launch
Cloudflare pushed Email Sending into public beta last week as part of Agents Week, with an...
Did we lose notifications for comment replies?
It would appear that we no longer get a notification in our Lobsters inbox for replies...
i found an old telephone and made it control spotify
i wasn't planning to build anything that day i was just cleaning my room you know...
Sloppy Copies
Discussion on lobste.rs Last month, I wrote an article about my recent experience creating a hobby...
Pure Borrow: Linear Haskell Meets Rust-Style Borrowing
qsort :: forall a α β. (Ord a, Copyable a, α >= β) => {- |...
What are the best developer tools built around Markdown?
What are some developer tools that have treated Markdown as more than a documentation format ?...
Box to save memory
I saved 475 MB out of the 895 MB used by a real-world Rust program by...
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release notes
23 April 2026 These release notes cover new features and changes in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute...
An update on rust-coreutils
This is a follow-up to Jon’s original post on Carefully (but purposefully) oxidising Ubuntu and Julian’s...
