~lobsters | Bookmarks (2040)

Xenographics – Weird but (sometimes) useful charts

xeno.graphics

visualization
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How to speed up the Rust compiler in March 2025

nnethercote.github.io

It has been just over a year since my last update on the Rust compiler’s performance....
It has been just over a year since my last update on the Rust compiler’s performance. Let’s get into it. The information about metrics at the top of this post still applies. Notable improvements #124129: In this PR, Rémy Rakic made lld the default linker for the nightly compiler on x86-64/Linux. lld is much faster t...

performance rust
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~robheghan/glogg (main): docs/motivation.md - sourcehut git

sr.ht

It seems like there's a new programming language coming out every couple of months. Responses to...
It seems like there's a new programming language coming out every couple of months. Responses to their announcements vary from "Hey, this is cool" all the way to a sarcastic "Yay, another new thing to learn for absolutely no benefit." Both of these responses represent valid viewpoints (although the latter comment co...

plt
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Bell Labs’ Unsung Heros in the History of Computing

dobbse.net

historical
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Rust in 2025: Language interop and the extensible compiler · baby steps

smallcultfollowing.com

For many years, C has effectively been the “lingua franca” of the computing world. It’s pretty...
For many years, C has effectively been the “lingua franca” of the computing world. It’s pretty hard to combine code from two different programming languages in the same process–unless one of them is C. The same could theoretically be true for Rust, but in practice there are a number of obstacles that make that harde...

compilers rust
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

james-iry.blogspot.com

1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world"...
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion, concurrency, or proper capitalization.1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is hampered in her efforts by the minor inc...

satire
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Asahi Lina Pausing Work On Apple GPU Linux Driver Development - Phoronix

phoronix.com

desktop linux graphics linux linux benchmarking linux hardware benchmarks
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Captcha Check

dreamwidth.org

cryptography security
2
Comptime Zig ORM

matklad.github.io

zig
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Announcing Fedora Linux 42 Beta - Fedora Magazine

fedoramagazine.org

The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Linux 42 Beta! We have...
The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Linux 42 Beta! We have lots to share with you about our upcoming release of Fedora Linux 42, and we want to give you a sneak preview of what’s in this release in the beta version that is out now. Get the the pre-release of any of our editions from ...

linux release
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Introducing two new PebbleOS watches!

ericmigi.com

We’re excited to announce two new smartwatches that run open source PebbleOS and are compatible with...
We’re excited to announce two new smartwatches that run open source PebbleOS and are compatible with thousands of your beloved Pebble apps. Core 2 Duo has an ultra crisp black and white display, polycarbonate frame, costs $149 and starts shipping in July.Core Time 2 has a larger 64-colour display, metal frame, costs...

release
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Patterns for modeling data with absolutely no NULLs? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

Sup friends. I am curious about patterns for modeling data of various types where you just...
Sup friends. I am curious about patterns for modeling data of various types where you just straight up do not persist null values, ever. All fields NOT NULL constrained. But in a way that disambiguates unasked and unanswered questions. Where invalid states can’t be represented, like “none of the above” being stored alongside one of the above. And where there is minimal dependency on...

ask databases
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OpenTimes: Free travel times between U.S. Census geographies

sno.ws

databases visualization
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Virtual Reality Projection Shenanigans

slugcat.systems

games graphics rust
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Recyling a OnePlus 6T into a Kubernetes Node

gabrielsimmer.com

devops
1
Hexagons and Beyond: Flexible, Responsive Grid Patterns, Sans Media Queries | CSS-Tricks

css-tricks.com

A little while back, Chris shared this nice hexagonal grid. And true to its name, it’s...
A little while back, Chris shared this nice hexagonal grid. And true to its name, it’s using —wait for it — CSS Grid to form that layout. It’s a neat trick! Combining grid columns, grid gaps, and creative clipping churns out the final result. A similar thing could be accomplished with flexbox, too. But I’m here to r...

css float grid layout
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Chris's Wiki :: blog/programming/ErrorHandlingNotSolvedProblem

utoronto.ca

plt
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A Society That Lost Focus

ploum.net

philosophy
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices

container-solutions.com

It happened again last week. I was at an architecture review meeting when a fellow architect...
It happened again last week. I was at an architecture review meeting when a fellow architect eagerly started another debate about *microservices*. Within minutes, eyes glazed over and we were knee-deep in an absurd discussion about something that should have been a means to an end, but had morphed into the end itsel...

distributed scaling
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GPT-3.5 and the latest models

omarabid.com

There is a lot of discussion about LLM benchmarks. The issue is that if models are...
There is a lot of discussion about LLM benchmarks. The issue is that if models are getting better at benchmarks, why are they not getting smarter for use cases?A simple run that I had lately, had me curious to see what GPT-3.5-turbo would answer. It is the oldest model that is still available on the Open AI API and ...

ai
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Slack: The Art of Being Busy Without Getting Anything Done

matduggan.com

humor practices rant work
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Nginx Rejects Dark Mode Support For Error Pages - Phoronix

phoronix.com

desktop linux linux benchmarking linux hardware benchmarks linux hardware reviews linux server benchmarks
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Stop Using and Recommending React

lusito.info

I have used React for a long time. Trust me when I tell you: There is...
I have used React for a long time. Trust me when I tell you: There is no reason to use it and a lot of reasons against it. This is going to be a long explanation, but bear with me! ReactPerformanceJavaScriptTypeScriptWeb DevelopmentBad Choices So the title might sound like click-bait, but it actually isn't. And I'm ...

bad choices javascript performance react typescript
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Can we consider self-promo discussion off-topic? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

Every few weeks, a thread on the front page gets dominated by meta discussion about how...
Every few weeks, a thread on the front page gets dominated by meta discussion about how the author is breaking the self-promo guideline. I propose discouraging this by stating in the guidelines that such comments are off-topic. If people want to help enforce the guideline, I think it would be better to kindly PM the author the first time, and flag as spam if...

meta
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