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proposal: add hotness -.25 to vibe coding

don't get distracted (2017)

code injections through git commit messages

running your own as: bgp on freebsd with frr, gre tunnels, and policy routing

vouch: a contributor trust management system based on explicit vouches to participate

(bsky thread) "this turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder"

a horrible conclusion

stories from 25 years of software development

maple mono: open source monospace font

hackers (1995) animated experience

tactical tornado is the new default

the rce that amd won't fix

my ai adoption journey

jujutsu v0.38.0 released

github actions is slowly killing your engineering team

owning a $5m data center

recreating epstein pdfs from raw encoded attachments

sukr: a minimal static site compiler in rust with zero-js output

microsoft has killed widgets six times. here's why they keep coming back

competence as tragedy

mobile carriers can get your gps location

hacking moltbook: ai social network reveals 1.5m api keys

what’s up with all those equals signs anyway?

rust in the netbsd kernel, and other odd decisions

one machine can go pretty far if you build things properly (2022)

what's your email setup?

technology: the (nearly) perfect usb cable tester does exist

the disconnected git workflow

notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored hackers

defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle

my (very) fast zero-allocation webserver using oxcaml

archive.today is directing a ddos attack against my blog

the api tooling crisis: why developers are abandoning postman and its clones?

in praise of –dry-run

guix system first impressions as a nix user

fosdem 2026 - live streaming

ingress nginx: statement from the kubernetes steering and security response committees

coding is when we’re least productive

email experiments: filtering out external images

how ai impacts skill formation

backseat software

no, cloudflare's matrix server isn't an earnest project

10 years of wasm: a retrospective

solving fossil's ascii art captcha in 171 characters

how to choose colors for your cli applications (2023)

phantom obligation

30 years of reactos

"a bootstrap chain for nixos which builds the whole system from a small hand-auditable binary seed"

uefigame: "win -> boot, lose -> shutdown"

neocities is blocked by bing

the rise of sanityware

blocking claude

lobsters vibecoding challenge (winter 2025-2026)

i started identifying corporate devices in my software

cloudflare claimed they implemented matrix on cloudflare workers. they didn't

xfwl4: the roadmap for a xfce wayland compositor

after two years of vibecoding, i'm back to writing by hand

t: a concise language for manipulating text, replacing common usage patterns of unix utilities like grep, sed, cut, awk, sort, and uniq

bugs apple loves

but how to get to that european cloud?

arcan explained – a browser for different webs

the state of linux music players in 2026

fedora asahi remix is now working on apple m3

why there’s no european google?

the enclosure feedback loop, or how llms sabotage existing programming practices by privatizing a public good

zerobrew is a rust-based, 5-20x faster drop-in homebrew alternative

i was right about atproto key management

a lament for aperture, the app we'll never get over losing

obvious things c should do

e9p - pure erlang 9p implementation

december in servo

agents.md as a dark signal

gnu guix 1.5.0 released

overrun with ai slop, curl scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"

ssh has no host header

announcing rust 1.93.0

an adversarial coding test

your app subscription is now my weekend project

don't trip[wire] yourself: testing error recovery in zig

lobsters blog carnival announcement

so, why *should* gnome support server side decorations?

foss for digital sovereignty in the eu

i got into an argument on discord about how inefficient cbr/cbz is, so i wrote a new file format

i made zig compute 33 million satellite positions in 3 seconds. no gpu required

reliable signals of honest intent

unconventional postgresql optimizations

why alter table is such a problem for sqlite

giving university exams in the age of chatbots

prediction: within 15 years microsoft will discontinue windows in favor of a windows themed linux distribution

floating-point printing and parsing can be simple and fast

the only two markup languages

the incredible overcomplexity of the shadcn radio button

are arrays functions?

people cannot "just pay attention" to (boring, routine) things

how the lobsters front page works

some c habits i employ for the modern day

agent psychosis: are we going insane?

a social filesystem

jquery 4.0.0 released

rust's culture of semantic precision

ascii characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ascii rendering

a website to end all websites

i set all 376 vim options and i'm still a fool

openbsd-current now runs as guest under apple hypervisor

why is zig so cool?

forgejo v14.0 is available

why senior engineers let bad projects fail

alternatives to minio for single-node local s3

lobsters battlestations and screenshots (2026)

the state of openssl for pyca/cryptography

selfci - a minimalistic local-first unix-philosophy-abiding ci

servo 2025 stats

interactive ebpf playground

just the browser

why we don't use ai

anthropic invests $1.5 million in the python software foundation and open source security

more assorted notes on liquid glass (2025)

how to make a damn website

we rolled our own documentation site

the rise (and future fall) of discord (2024)

the struggle of resizing windows on macos tahoe

who are people currently using as hosting providers?

whatsapp is untrustable

llvm: the bad parts

asahi linux - porting linux to apple silicon

don't fall into the anti-ai hype

finding and fixing ghostty's largest memory leak

tag proposal: logic-lang

i cannot ssh into my server anymore (and that’s fine)

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&str

celeste & towerfall physics

european commission issues call for evidence on open source

a data model for git

jujutsu v0.37.0 released

dialogue between a developer and a kid

what happened to webassembly

tailwind labs loses 80% of revenue and 75% of engineering due to ai

acm is now fully open access

relax for the same result (2015)

a4 paper stories

gothub ssh signup

postgresql 18 returning enhancements: a game changer for modern applications

why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is

where are all the low-level jits?

zero heap allocation http server using oxcaml

there were bgp anomalies during the venezuela blackout

the best line length is 88

why markdown emphasis fails in cjk: a deep dive into commonmark's delimiter rules

go.sum is not a lockfile

go 1.26 interactive tour

how github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem

it’s hard to justify tahoe icons

databases in 2025: a year in review

everything you need to know about email encryption in 2026

21 lessons from 14 years at google

saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter

can i finally start using wayland in 2026?

kde onboarding is good now

who owns the memory? part 1: what is an object?

who's hiring? q1 2026

the kimwolf botnet is stalking your local network

why i switched away from zig to c3

which programming resource changed your career?

i'm brave enough to say it: linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your pc, make 2026 the year of linux on (your) desktop

assorted less(1) tips

reasons to love the field of programming languages

one number i trust: plain-text accounting for a multi-currency household

writing windows 95 software in 2025

corroded: illegal rust

how do you secure access to your self-hosted/homelab services?

2025: the year in llms

i canceled my programming book deal

what are you planning to learn in 2026?

a solid load of bull

what are some interesting projects that you've done this year?

fedimeteo: how a tiny €4 freebsd vps became a global weather service for thousands

curl removes all calls to strcpy

loss32: let's build a win32/linux

can bundler be as fast as uv?

llms are not fun

the silicon valley stack doesn’t work here: why africa will lead the post-bloat web

static allocation with zig

garbage collection in rust got a little better

the second great error model convergence

my first meshtastic network

what an unprocessed photo looks like

parsing advances

replacing js with just html

release age v1.3.0: post-quantum (and more)

39c3: to sign or not to sign: practical vulnerabilities in gpg & friends

this png will show different version if you open it in chrome than in safari

why is calling my asm function from rust slower than calling it from c?

arcan 0.7.1 – minutes to midnight

pre-commit hooks are fundamentally broken

how uv got so fast

til: serde's borrowing can be treacherous

rob pike goes nuclear over genai

the html elements time forgot

gleam v1.14 - the happy holidays release 2025

ssh tiny.christmas

ruby 4.0.0 released

package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out

newtype index pattern in zig

i'm returning my framework 16

your favorite pieces of technical writing?

the linux kernel is just a program

mquickjs: micro quickjs javascript engine

the lightest notes app implementation in 111 loc

i foretold that mac app notarization is security theater

lua 5.5 released

what's "new" in miri (and also, there's a miri paper!)

an uncomfortable but necessary discussion about the debian bug tracker

i’m a former cto. here is the 15 sec coding test i used to instantly filter out 50% of unqualified applicants

debian’s git transition

logging sucks - your logs are lying to you

i program on the subway

thirteen years of rust and the birth of rue

dumbphone journey -- eight month update

you can't opt-out of accessibility

tag proposal: decentralization

backing up spotify

the mysterious forces steering views on hacker news

introducing css grid lanes

unix v4 tape from university of utah

help my website is too small

wireguard® implementation written in rust

go ahead, self-host postgres

please just try htmx

how to hack discord, vercel and more with one easy trick

your job is to deliver code you have proven to work

toml 1.1.0 released

linux kernel rust code sees its first cve vulnerability

asahi linux progress report: linux 6.18

how did irc ping timeouts end up in a lawsuit?

the original mozilla "dinosaur" logo artwork

yep, passkeys still have problems

a survey of dynamic array structures

opus 1.6 released

vm.overcommit_memory=2 is always the right setting

ty: an extremely fast python type checker and language server

no graphics api

november in servo: monthly releases, context menus, parallel css parsing, and more

writing a blatant telegram clone using qt, qml and rust. and c++

i'm just having fun

radicle: peer-to-peer collaboration with git (2024)

"super secure" maga-themed messaging app leaks everyone's phone number

"careless whisper" side-channel attack affects whatsapp and signal

announcing key transparency for the fediverse

top gun's carrier landing: exposed

chafa: terminal graphics for the 21st century

my gift to the rustdoc team

the <time> element should actually do something

what is a build system, anyway?

i tried gleam for advent of code, and i get the hype

the state of the kernel rust experiment

what's the point of lightweight code with modern computers?

guarding my git forge against ai scrapers

oils 0.37.0 - alpine linux, ysh, and mycpp

bidicalc: a bidirectional calculator

installing every nixos package

announcing rust 1.92.0

let's embed a go program into the linux kernel

maybe we don't need a server

gin is a very bad software library

new tag suggestion: "genai-assisted"

stop breaking tls

how google maps quietly allocates survival across london’s restaurants - and how i built a dashboard to see through it

rust in the kernel is no longer experimental

you don't need an orm

why i think jj-vcs is worth your time

zig asserts are not c asserts

go proposal: secret mode

join the on-call roster, it’ll change your life

factor 0.101 now available

prediction: ai will make formal verification go mainstream

jepsen: nats 2.12.1

icons in menus everywhere — send help

why the sanitizer api is just `sethtml()`

it is worth it to optimize images for your site

vanilla css is all you need

using llms at oxide

github actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst

perl's decline was cultural

how i discovered a hidden microphone on a chinese nanokvm

flow control: a programmer's text editor

reminder about framework laptop

framework laptop 13 gets arm processor with 12 cores via third-party upgrade kit

typewriter plotters

how to speed up the rust compiler in december 2025

thoughts on go vs. rust vs. zig

lobsters interview with aks

jujutsu v0.36.0 released

fairphone open-sources fairphone 5 and 6 software, and moments switch

svg filters - clickjacking 2.0

why i ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer

pglite - embeddable postgres

swi-prolog 10.0.0 released

super-flat asts

ghostty is now non-profit

zig's new plan for asynchronous programs

in defense of lock poisoning in rust

zmx: session persistence for terminal processes

my first impressions of meshcore off-grid messaging

go proposal: type-safe error checking

decreasing certificate lifetimes to 45 days

gitmal - a static pages generator for git repos

freebsd 15.0-release announcement

why xor eax, eax?

don't click here

building the perfect linux pc with linus torvalds

internet handle

nixos 25.11 released

hacking on the remarkable 2

windows drive letters are not limited to a-z

github to codeberg: my experience

advent of code 2025

migrating dillo from github

zigbook is plagiarizing the zigtools playground

datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea

the clade folding text editor

langjam gamejam: build a programming language then make a game with it

self-hosting my photos with immich

how good engineers write bad code at big companies

an update on the farphone's battery

the crdt dictionary: a field guide to conflict-free replicated data types

lazy linearity for a core functional language

migrating the zig organization from github to codeberg

chat control: eu lawmakers finally agree on the voluntary scanning of your private chats

kde going all-in on a wayland future

i don't care how well your "ai" works

what they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project

stop hacklore - an open letter

announcing unison 1.0

unifying wikipedia mobile and desktop domains

stop telling us xmpp should use json

constant-time support lands in llvm: protecting cryptographic code at the compiler level

memories of .us

open source has too many parasocial relationships

shai-hulud returns: over 300 npm packages infected via fake bun runtime within hours

edn.c: a fast, zero-copy edn (extensible data notation) reader written in c11 with simd acceleration

fifty shades of oop

why i (still) love linux

ntoh*/hton* is a bad api

we stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs

google revisits jpeg xl in chromium after earlier removal

enough with all the raft

dingo: a meta-language for go

host a website from an old phone using postmarketos

the worst programming language of all time

letter from codeberg: onwards and upwards

a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "half life 2"

helping valve to power up steam devices

we should all be using dependency cooldowns

solving fizz buzz with cosines

exploring the fragmentation of wayland, an xdotool adventure

zork i, ii, and iii go open source

firefox 147 will support the xdg base directory specification

open source developers are exhausted, unpaid, and ready to walk away

signal polls: yes, no, maybe (yes!)

what makes the intro to crafting interpreters so good?

the lost cause of the lisp machines

static web hosting on the intel n150: freebsd, smartos, netbsd, openbsd and linux compared

cloudflare outage on november 18, 2025

self-hosting dns for no fun, but a little profit

announcing lix 2.94 “açaí na tigela”

rebecca heineman - from homelessness to porting doom

do not put your site behind cloudflare if you don't need to

6 years after too much crypto

my next chapter with mastodon

a 450 kb static site generator based on markdown and lua

chuck moore retires from colorforth after latest windows breaks rendering

towards interplanetary quic traffic

pre-pep: rust for cpython

strace-macos: a clone of the strace command for macos

i work for an evil company, but outside work, i’m actually a really good person

javascript engines zoo

i think nobody wants ai in firefox, mozilla

living my best sun microsystems ecosystem life in 2025

brimstone: new javascript engine written in rust

librepods: airpods liberated from apple's ecosystem

blocking llm crawlers, without javascript

$1900 bug bounty to fix the lenovo legion pro 7 16iax10h's speakers on linux

i can’t recommend grafana anymore

a structural regular expression engine for rust

this isn't a battle

rust in android: move fast and fix things

language design notes

there is no such thing as a 3.5 inch floppy disc

parsing integers in c

patterns for defensive programming in rust

mergiraf: syntax-aware merging for git

valve announces new steam machine, steam controller & steam frame

homebrew v5.0.0: the missing package manager for macos (or linux)

a brief look at freebsd

servo: a new web engine written in rust

ffmpeg to google: fund us or stop sending bugs

the terminal of the future

rtc: rk808: compensate for rockchip calendar deviation on november 31st (2015)

a domain for the queer community, by the queer community

grebedoc — static site hosting for git forges

firefox expands fingerprint protections: advancing towards a more private web

reimagine the date picker

opinion piece: on zig (and the design choices within)

in praise of dhh

writing your own beam

vibe code warning – from 1k to 10k lines, a personal casestudy

what’s your favourite podcast at the moment?

acme: a user interface for programmers (1994)

the new `du` command (in `/lib/cargo/bin/coreutils`) outputs wrong sizes in ubuntu 25.10

ironclad, a formally verified unix-like kernel written in ada

why i don't love rust (either) (2021)

opencloud - an alternative to nextcloud written in go

why nextcloud feels slow to use

error codes for control flow

unix v4 tape found at the university of utah

i use typst now

a file format uncracked for 20 years

jujutsu v0.35.0 released

how i fell in love with calendar.txt

a note on fil-c

announcing development on flirt

myna: monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages

disassembling terabytes of random data with zig and capstone to prove a point

a short survey of compiler targets

things i don't like in configuration languages

socketaddrv6 is not roundtrip serializable

freebsd officially supported in oci runtime specification v1.3

tag proposal: self-hosting

why engineers can't be rational about programming languages

what laptops are lobsters rocking in 2025?

free software scares normal people

the fetch()ening

state of terminal emulators in 2025: the errant champions

cheriot 1.0 released

i ****ing hate science (2021)

you don't need anubis

build system tradeoffs

a prison of my own making

notes by djb on using fil-c (2025)

port of linux to webassembly

claude code can debug low-level cryptography

hard rust requirements from may onward

your url is your state

just use a button

my impressions of the macbook pro m4

ghc now runs in your browser

announcing rust 1.91.0

crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason

use the xdg base directory specification

i'm independently verifying go's reproducible builds

zig's new async i/o (text version)

uv is the best thing to happen to the python ecosystem in a decade

normalize identifying corporate devices in your software

kafka is fast - i'll use postgres

the vindication of bubble sort

new graph layout algorithm for spidermonkey’s ssa compiler

what we talk about when we talk about sideloading

fil-c: a memory-safe c implementation

linux vm without vm software - user mode linux

your vibe coded slop pr is not welcome

quantifying pass-by-value overhead

recent rust changes

printing at fedex

‘ai’ sucks the joy out of programming

why busy beaver hunters fear the antihydra

the psf has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to us government grant program

how i turned zig into my favorite language to write network programs in

you should feed the bots

tag proposal: typesetting

you already have a git server

webdav isn't dead yet

libera chat receives legal advice that the online safety act does not apply to them

tag proposal: conflicts

leaving the freedesktop.org community

how to avoid fighting rust borrow checker

typst 0.14: now accessible

modern perfect hashing

what happened to apple's legendary attention to detail?

changes to advent of code starting this december

programming with less than nothing

i see a future in jj

scripts i wrote that i use all the time

a word on omarchy

element: sethtml() method on mdn

magit is amazing

yet another year with decker (v1.44 - v1.60)

6 months of tangled

my most popular application

how i accidentally became puregym's unofficial apple wallet developer

aws experiences 12+ hour multi-service outage

servo 0.0.1 release

gleam v1.13.0 released

no military funding (2004)

the day my smart vacuum turned against me

tracking down a regression in mesa 3d

weird, but haskell feels easy

everybody's so creative

an open letter to the obsidian team

flowistry: an ide plugin for rust that focuses on relevant code

if you could redesign linux userland from scratch, what would you do differently?

the majority ai view

how i reversed amazon's kindle web obfuscation because their app sucked

forgejo v13.0 is available

zed editor is now available on windows

nix: connecting to the sandbox

what’s your go-to strategy for giving engineers access to production?

elixir v1.19 released

i am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong

reverse engineering iwork

when you opened a screen shot of a video in paint, the video was playing in it

i am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves copilot generated code

fsf announces librephone project

the dhh problem (2014)

meta news on lix in october 2025

happy birthday to kde

mergiraf - syntax-aware git merge driver

the peach meme: on crts, pixels and signal quality (again)

free software hasn't won

smolbsd — build your own minimal bsd system

strudel repl - a music live coding environment living in the browser

critical github copilot vulnerability leaks private source code

the country that broke kotlin

fzf 0.66.0 introduces “--raw mode”

switch to jujutsu already: a tutorial

vibing a non-trivial ghostty feature

dijkstra on the foolishness of natural language programming (1978)

liquid glass is cracked, and usability suffers in ios 26

html’s best kept secret: the output tag

why it took 4 years to get a lock files specification

igalia, servo, and the sovereign tech fund

notes on switching to helix from vim

how to check for overlapping intervals

a new breed of analyzers

programming in the sun: a year with the daylight computer

lobsters interview with zdsmith

examples are the best documentation

a small number of samples can poison llms of any size

citizen protest halts chat control

how we found a bug in go's arm64 compiler

the programmer identity crisis

why we didn't rewrite our feed handler in rust

the handle trait

vibe engineering

python insider: python 3.14.0 (final) is here

the evolution of lua, continued

seeing like a software company

the fix to the iphone antennagate in 2010 was 20 bytes

i brain coded a static image gallery in a few hours

my first contribution to linux

why do llms freak out over the seahorse emoji?

the qnx operating system

nirs fire destroys [south korean] government's cloud storage system, no backups available

exit the feed: the best coders should walk away

conventional commits considered harmful

why netnewswire is not a web app

retiring test-ipv6.com

a mac-like experience on linux

paged out! issue #7

how we're redesigning audacity for the future

zig builds are getting faster

the jank community has stepped up

cancelling async rust

fundraising campaign to sustain gnu guix

where it's at://

wombat’s book of nix

asked to do something illegal at work? here’s what these software engineers did

a tutorial for the sam command language

the biggest semantic mess in futhark

jujutsu v0.34.0 released

immich v2.0.0 - stable release

nix steering committee vote of no confidence

systems programming with zig

glide, an extensible, keyboard-focused web browser

steel bank common lisp 2.5.9

the software essays that shaped me

open printer is an open source inkjet printer with drm-free ink and roll paper support

bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel

pidgin 3.0 experimental 4 (2.93.0) has been released

announcing software you can love 2026

ai is writing 90% of the code

f-droid and google's developer registration decree

just let me select text

stupid jj tricks

offline translator for android

how i accidentally created the fastest csv parser ever made

typst: a possible latex replacement

go's builtin 'new()' function will take an expression in go 1.26

fun friday question: what's the best way you've broken prod?

flight recorder in go 1.25

redis is fast - i'll cache in postgres

rio terminal: a hardware-accelerated gpu terminal emulator

fast udp i/o for firefox in rust

zoomer tries rss: in praise of yarr (2024)

investigating a forged pdf

a very early history of algebraic data types

this month in servo: variable fonts, network tools, svg

postgresql 18 released

thoughts on cloudflare

some interesting stuff i found on ix lans

raspberry pi 500+ launched

¡step right up to the lobsters! blog! carnival

don't even consider starting with microsoft

how s3 scales to petabytes a second on top of tens of millions of slow hdds

ai is impressive because we’ve failed at semantic web and personal computing

should neovim support transitive plugin dependencies?

benjamin button reviews macos

rust foundation signs joint statement on open source infrastructure stewardship

go has added valgrind support

crypto miner in hotio/qbittorrent

wild linker update - 0.6.0

libghostty is coming

imagining a language without booleans