Lobsters

What are you doing this weekend?

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

@storyteller-platform/epub v1.0.0 release

Storyteller has had its own EPUB library for a very long time (originally

We Should be Able to Change our Languages

It's time we stopped treating languages as sacred fixed objects. We need now, more than ever, languages we can change.

The death of web development education

In a personal blog post, Baldur Bjarnason describes how he worked in various fields and positions: as an author, publisher, consultant, developer, educator, as well as radio and TV producer. None of these jobs were economically viable in the long term.

The Second Golden Spike: Memory Safety Across the Valen/Rust Boundary

In The Golden Spike, and Resurrecting the Vale(n) Programming Language, we saw how it was possible for a language to call Rust functions directly, without going through C, by directly integrating with the Rust compiler. 0 1

Announcing Rust 1.99.0

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Reducing the cognitive load of AI changes

When reviewing large amounts of AI-generated code, I often find that the LLM chooses terms for abstractions that do not always map to my own choices. For instance, what it may call a MutationIntent might personally be more natural to me as an EditRequest.

django-modern-rest@0.16.0 release

Hi everyone, I am the release manager of django-modern-rest :) django-modern-rest 0.16.0 is out! Is this your first time that you hear about this project? django-modern-rest is a fully typed / fast / flexible / async-ready framework to create REST APIs for Django.

Who's hiring? Q4 2026

There was interest in expanding the scope of "Who's hiring" posts to non-software engineering positions [link1] [link2]. Some discussion took place, however no actual jobs were posted.

IANA's email about why example.com changed

I emailed IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) earlier today to ask about the new content on example.com. To my surprise, their VP replied. Here is the email: I am happy to try and answer any questions you have.

Typeclasses vs Modules

For a long time I’ve noticed that there’s a lot of persistent confusion about the differences and similarities between module systems (as seen in languages like OCaml) and typeclasses (as seen in languages like Haskell or Rust). This is an attempt to clear up the confusion.

Datalog Disassembly (2020)

Rust to WGSL transpiler `wgsl-rs` released

Wow! So much work went into this beta release. It's been the most organized project I've ever attempted, and I think that shows in the beta project board.

Major rsync upgrade in Debian because of 33 CVEs

apt-listchanges --which=both -f text --since=3.4.1+ds1-5+deb13u4 /var/cache/apt/archives/rsync_3.5.0+ds1-0+deb13u1_amd64.deb apt-listchanges: Reading changelogs...

We used a database as a message queue. Now we use Kafka

FoundationDB was our only database, queue included. We built Apple's QuiCK design on top of it, hit the write limits, and moved async tasks to Kafka.

Finding Bugs

Are generative (randomized) tests significantly more effective than example-based unit-tests at discovering bugs? There's an interesting discussion about this on lobste.rs. One argument in favor of unit tests is, paraphrasing

attezt: device attestation, PKCS11 and ACME

IETF is standardizing a new ACME challenge, `device-attest-01`, which allows organizations to provision device bound certificates to mach...

A no-cost audio upgrade for my workstation

But now to the real question: how should I test that package? Since the package describes a Linux kernel module, I'd have to add it to my operating system definition, reconfigure my system, reboot it, eliminate bugs and continue this cycle over and over again until it works.