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  • State of Devs 2026

    Nearly half of this year's survey respondents had experienced job insecurity and insufficient wages. A quarter had been laid off at some point in their career, and nearly 1 in 10 had been laid off within the last 9 months.

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  • The Only Intuitive Interface Is The Nipple

    This is usually attributed to one Bruce Ediger (though at least one person thought it was originally said by Steve Jobs, a manufacturer of fine computers), and refers to the frequent (and invariably inaccurate) description of computer user interfaces as "intuitive".

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  • Two Kinds of SQL Query Builders

    The SQL language has a paradoxical fate. Although it was deliberately designed to appeal to a human user, nowadays most of SQL code is written—or rather generated—by the computer.

    Lobsters10 min read

  • Unix File and Directory Permissions and Modes (2018)

    Unix and Linux systems (including Mac OS X and other POSIX compliant systems) have a (relatively) simple system for controlling access to files and directories. This system is defined in POSIX.1:2008 standard, also known as the Single Unix Specification (SUS version 4).

    Lobsters24 min read

  • Text-to-meowdio models

    Text-to-audio models take a text prompt as input, and generate audio as output. In principle they take any kind of prompt and generate any type of audio. If you re-prompt them with the same prompt but a different random seed, you should get a new example of audio for that prompt.

    Lobsters7 min read

  • Aho-Corasick Algorithm

    This post describes the construction of an Aho-Corasick automaton for the simultaneous matching of substrings within a sequence. I’m fond of this algorithm because it constructs an automaton from an existing tree data structure in a rather pleasant way.

    Lobsters8 min read

  • Prototyping a Small Genetic Algorithms Library inHaskell (2019)

    This post assumes a basic understanding of genetic algorithms and the terminology associated with them, as well as a cursory understanding of recursion schemes; resources for both may be found scattered within the post. All source code can be found here.

    Lobsters13 min read

  • MotifCentral - All Things Motif/Xt/Xlib

    Motif Central brings together information about Motif, Xt, Xlib and X11: how they fit together, how to program with them, and where to find the manuals, examples and historical material that explain them.

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  • Switching To Emacs as a Neovim User

    I have always liked the idea of having one program to do everything on my computer. Also, I have always been a fan of text-based interfaces. These two preferences of mine scream Emacs user, but I have never really used it seriously.

    Lobsters6 min read

  • Adding Floating-Point Decimals for Fun and Profit

    Many people know that you shouldn’t do decimal calculations, such as those involving U.S. dollars and cents, with the floating-point numbers in most programming languages.

    Lobsters10 min read

  • What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like?

    Every “AI” tool is missing critical features that you would need if you wanted to do real work with them. What would those look like, if they existed?

    Lobsters23 min read

  • HardenedBSD August / September 2026 Status Report

    I'm writing this status report a little early because this coming week (the week of the 28th of September 2026) is HardenedBSD quarterly release engineering week.

    Lobsters5 min read

  • Rickrolling with a Pharmacy cross

    Currently looking for a 4 month full-time internship. If you wish to learn more, please click on the button below.

    Lobsters5 min read

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