Lobsters

Lobsters · October 23, 2026 01:22

UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does

When timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities

Lobsters · October 23, 2026 00:37

Please don't mess with links:

Another common offense is to use a real link, but hook the click event to open a popup. However, with a real link, I can:

Entities: Target

Lobsters · October 22, 2026 21:52

We have Traits at Home | Mesoloop

I have had more time recently to write code in Zig, and it has been good for my soul. I wanted to share some insights I have arrived at regarding abstractions in Zig, including some techniques that I have found useful but not seen employed more broadly.

Lobsters · October 22, 2026 21:42

a hacky fucked up way to portably access errno from outside of c

here's something really cursed i made a while back. the goal here is to create a portable way to obtain the value of errno from outside of c, without using a wrapper function written in c.

Lobsters · October 22, 2026 20:09

Code and Cake - Docker is weird

I decided to make my own container runtime for fun, and even though I’m still early on, I’ve learned that Docker is weird. Here’s some weird things I learned about Docker.

Topics: Infrastructure

Entities: Infrastructure