~lobsters | Bookmarks (1922)

Vision of a new World - Design Issues

w3.org

I have written about the properties I want the web to have and the world to...
I have written about the properties I want the web to have and the world to have, and I have written about the technical and social design which has been and is being rolled out to make it a reality. There has been a common problem in all this, though, that it is really hard for people to imagine what this new world...

web
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Getting Started in Cryo-EM

youtube.com

science video
1
ACTORS: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems

mit.edu

distributed
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Making “this” less annoying

daverupert.com

Now that I have a job where I’m writing web components full time, I see the...
Now that I have a job where I’m writing web components full time, I see the this keyword more than I ever have in my whole life. It’s not a problem, per se, but you can see how it’s a little repetitive. I started wondering what my options were to fix this minor annoyance and the ShopTalk Discord helped me find a sim...

design editors
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The future of programming languages

substack.com

The devices humanity built for centuries reduced the effort required to do tasks otherwise difficult or...
The devices humanity built for centuries reduced the effort required to do tasks otherwise difficult or impossible for our human bodies. Bows allowed humans to propel objects further, with more accuracy and strength, than humans could throw rocks. The interaction is simple: hold bow with one hand, pull string with t...

plt
1
"We never update unless forced to" — cargo-semver-checks 2024 Year in Review

predr.ag

cargo-semver-checks ends 2024 having improved dramatically over the course of the year: 12 new releases featuring...
cargo-semver-checks ends 2024 having improved dramatically over the course of the year: 12 new releases featuring 63 new lints, with 1175 merged PRs from 57 authors across the many repos that make the project tick. Let's recap what we learned, the biggest things we shipped, and the facets of the project that made it...

rust
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RetroDotCards

retrodotcards.com

games retrocomputing
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using Linear Programming to find optimal builds in league of legends - annieversary

versary.town

2025-01-20 word count: 2160 approx reading time: 12 mins i've recently started playing league of legends...
2025-01-20 word count: 2160 approx reading time: 12 mins i've recently started playing league of legends again. yes, i know. but the Worlds 2024 into Arcane Season 2 two-punch combo hit me harder than i expected. what can i say. sometimes you can see that the path ahead is dark and full of monsters, yet you're still...

games programming
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dreaming of smel shell

taylor.town

design plt unix
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Type Inference in Rust and C++

herecomesthemoon.net

Branches. Toggle original/dithered image Let’s talk about a topic that’s either completely obvious or in the...
Branches. Toggle original/dithered image Let’s talk about a topic that’s either completely obvious or in the “Never heard of any of this” territory, depending on your background. This is intended to be a fairly pragmatic post for the casual C++ or Rust user trying to understand both languages, or anyone who’s intere...

c++plt rust
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The hunt for error -22 - Blog - Tweede golf

tweedegolf.nl

Sit back and grab a drink. This one is a doozy.BackgroundAt Tweede golf we do lots...
Sit back and grab a drink. This one is a doozy.BackgroundAt Tweede golf we do lots of engineering work, and a while ago we worked for a client using the nRF9160 microcontroller. This chip has an LTE modem with which you can reach the internet while still not using a lot of power. It's pretty neat!I built the majorit...

debugging
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SQL Transactions in Go: The Good Way

thibaut-rousseau.com

Published on 2025-01-21Reading time estimated to 8 minutes In my last work experience, I designed what...
Published on 2025-01-21Reading time estimated to 8 minutes In my last work experience, I designed what I consider a pretty cool and efficient way to manage database transactions across a Go codebase. In a nutshell, I wanted to use database transactions in my business logic without exposing database internals. After ...

go
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Reminiscing on my early days writing software

rauljordan.com

The beginner's curse of not knowing when to ask "why" We all have stories of our...
The beginner's curse of not knowing when to ask "why" We all have stories of our huge gaps in understanding we had as junior developers, and mine is so embarrassing that I used to hesitate sharing it. The beginner's journey in software is often marked by confusion, impostor syndrome, and endless tutorials that leave...

practices
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Refinement types for input validation

snork.dev

Most applications need to deal with user input in some capacity; data submitted via a web...
Most applications need to deal with user input in some capacity; data submitted via a web form, incoming JSON payloads, command line arguments, and so on. This data needs to be deserialized into a format that the application can understand, and it may also need to be validated—for example, checking that a text input...

plt
1
Overview - Twine Data

twine-data.dev

Twine-data (twine for short) is a binary format that aims at combining simplicity, compactness, performance of...
Twine-data (twine for short) is a binary format that aims at combining simplicity, compactness, performance of (de)serialization, self descriptiveness, and expressiveness. Unlike most of the modern self-descriptive formats (CBOR, MsgPack, JSON, S-expressions, etc.), twine's data model is not a tree. Rather, a twine ...

programming
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iOS Privacy: Announcing InAppBrowser.com - see what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser

krausefx.com

Please note that this article is outdated (August 2022). Importantly, the article does not claim that...
Please note that this article is outdated (August 2022). Importantly, the article does not claim that any data logging or transmission is actively occurring. Instead, it highlights the potential technical capabilities of in-app browsers to inject JavaScript code, which could theoretically be used to monitor user int...

mobile security web
1
Steinar H. Gunderson

sesse.net

Pretty much exactly a year ago, I posted about how I was trying out this bcachefs...
Pretty much exactly a year ago, I posted about how I was trying out this bcachefs thing, being cautiously optimistic (but reminding you to keep backups). Now I'm going the other way; I've converted my last bcachefs filesystem to XFS, and I don't intend to look at it again in the near future. What changed in the mean...

linux
1
Documentation on using Renovate with haskell-actions · Issue #111 · haskell-actions/setup

github.com

api haskell vcs
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Encrypted NixOS home server with passwordless reboot | Olivier's log

pfad.fr

19 January 2025, in Olivier's log These are my notes on refurbishing a laptop with a...
19 January 2025, in Olivier's log These are my notes on refurbishing a laptop with a broken screen hinge to a NixOS home server. A coworker recommended Colmena for managing NixOS on remote machines, so I decided to give it a try. I got confused by the Colmena manual, which expects NixOS to be already set up on the r...

linux nix
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Generating Test Values using JavaScript Generators · Issue #18 · peter-leonov/type-predicate-generator

github.com

javascript testing
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rust-magic-patterns/async-pipeline-pattern/Readme.md at master · alexpusch/rust-magic-patterns

github.com

rust
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altair-upset: The Evolution of UpSet plots in Altair

edmundmiller.dev

Altair is the only plotting library that I’ve felt like loved me back. Maybe ggplot2 would...
Altair is the only plotting library that I’ve felt like loved me back. Maybe ggplot2 would love me back as well, but it’s locked away in the tower of R. I went on a bit of a lark when I stumbled upon the original upset-altair-notebook from HMS-DBMI. It was just a Jupyter Notebook, and only worked with Altair 4, whic...

python visualization
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Project 8086 Part II: Real Mode Productivity; or, 8,086 Reasons to Get a Newer Computer — 512 Pixels

512pixels.net

MS-DOS Correspondent Kevin Lipe reporting again from the trailing edge of computing. When I was last...
MS-DOS Correspondent Kevin Lipe reporting again from the trailing edge of computing. When I was last with you, we discussed the Pocket 8086. If you don’t remember what the Pocket 8086 is, or who I am, or what any of this has to do with everyone’s favorite Apple blog, I’d refer you to part one of that series, as it w...

retrocomputing
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Mozilla Localization in 2024 – Mozilla L10N

mozilla.org

2024 was a year with plenty of achievements for the Mozilla localization community (here’s the 2023...
2024 was a year with plenty of achievements for the Mozilla localization community (here’s the 2023 report in case you missed it, or want to check how we fared against our original plans). Let’s start with the numbers first: 30 projects (-2 compared to last year) and 369 locales (+111) set up in Pontoon. 4,991 new u...

ai practices
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