Lobsters
The BeBox: BeOS Hardware, Photos, and the Apple Deal That Wasn't
Original 2000 BeBox photos, Be Inc. specs, GeekPort details, BeOS R5 history, the Apple/NeXT 1996 deal, Power Computing, and final eBay sale records.
Lobsters
Soon We Can Finally Banish JavaScript to the ShadowRealm | CSS-Tricks
The proposed ShadowRealm API introduces a new kind of realm specifically designed for isolation, and only that.
Lobsters
Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol
DuckDB instances can now talk to each other using the Quack remote protocol. This lets you run DuckDB in a client-server setup with multiple concurrent writers. In DuckDB's spirit, Quack is simple to set up and builds on proven technologies such as HTTP(S)....
Lobsters
The hidden cost of mpsc channels
Recently I have been spending a lot of time analyzing and optimizing memory usage in our Rust reverse-proxy, agentgateway. One thing that repeatedly came up was a surprisingly large amount of memory allocated to innocent-looking Tokio mpsc channels. In my...
Lobsters
charles leifer | Redis and the Cost of Ambition
May 12, 2026 11:28 / redis thoughts / 0 comments
Lobsters
Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
Last year I said I'd probably never recommend another Bambu Lab printer again. I still use my P1S, but after Bambu Lab started pushing their always-connected cloud solution as the new default: I blocked the printer from the Internet via my OPNsense Firewall...
Lobsters
All the ways to mock your Rust code
Ok, so, suppose you’ve written a Kubernetes controller, you did it in Rust, and then you realized that “Hey, when this thing breaks it’s hard to understand what’s going on”. So, you decide to emit some Kubernetes events that give a little more context as to...
