Wirth's Revenge https://lobste.rs/s/e0ngxl #performance #practices #vibecoding
https://jmoiron.net/blog/wirths-revenge/
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How not to program in Dyalog APL https://lobste.rs/s/wxijhv #apl #practices
https://www.toolofthought.com/donts
raylib: a 12-year adventure as a solo-maintainer via @aks https://lobste.rs/s/mxzbwh #video #c #programming
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/883PBF-raylib-12-year-adventure/
Why charging overnight doesn't ruin the battery anymore https://lobste.rs/s/o8tg6n #hardware #mac
https://lowendmac.com/2026/why-charging-overnight-doesnt-ruin-the-battery-anymore/
writing an RSS reader in 80 lines of bash https://lobste.rs/s/najof9 #show #unix
https://yobibyte.github.io/yr.html
Microsoft Has Killed Widgets Six Times. Here's Why They Keep Coming Back https://lobste.rs/s/y04ll5 #windows
https://xakpc.dev/windows-widgets/history/
LFS/BLFS will no longer be developing the System V versions https://lobste.rs/s/6xpxg9 #linux #systemd
https://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/arc/lfs-announce/2026-02/msg00000.html
I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input https://lobste.rs/s/jckhbk #security #unix
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/PassingSecretsViaStdin
Competence as Tragedy https://lobste.rs/s/2svv99 #philosophy #vibecoding
https://crowprose.com/blog/competence-as-tragedy
Commodore, IBM, OS/2, ARexx: Deal or no deal? https://lobste.rs/s/kupf4f #retrocomputing
https://datagubbe.se/os2/
Mobile carriers can get your GPS location https://lobste.rs/s/bg1mw2 #mobile #privacy
https://an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss.html
What arguments was Python called with? https://lobste.rs/s/dxeokh #python
https://davidism.com/python-args/
Millets: a practical memory-safety and thread-safety experiment https://lobste.rs/s/sbmtxh #compsci #programming
https://eagledot.xyz/millets.md.html
33 Hot Takes on Systems Programming https://lobste.rs/s/m4cbzy #video #programming
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g5rgIdy51vQ
html tables revisted https://lobste.rs/s/brpotl #apl #web
https://www.toolofthought.com/posts/html-tables-revisited
Fitting Some Files Through A Stdout-Shaped Hole https://lobste.rs/s/ylrpaj #devops
https://rtpg.co/2026/02/03/fitting-some-files-through-a-stdout-shaped-hole/
Django security releases issued: 6.0.2, 5.2.11, and 4.2.28 via @paulox https://lobste.rs/s/ux5gy3 #python #release #web
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/feb/03/security-releases/
Taming the Flat AST: Ergonomics in the Age of Zero Allocations https://lobste.rs/s/eu12b9 #go #performance
http://modern-c.blogspot.com/2026/02/taming-flat-ast-ergonomics-in-age-of.html