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compsci

  1. ai Developing artificial intelligence, machine learning. Tag AI usage only with `vibecoding`.
  2. compsci Other computer science/programming
  3. distributed Distributed systems
  4. formalmethods Formal methods
  5. graphics Graphics programming
  6. networking Networking
  7. osdev Operating system design and development when no specific OS tag exists
  8. plt Programming language theory, types, design
  9. programming Use when every tag or no specific tag applies

culture

  1. culture Technical communities and culture
  2. law Law, patents, and licensing
  3. person Stories about particular persons
  4. philosophy Philosophy

field

  1. cogsci Cognitive Science
  2. cryptography Cryptography
  3. education Education
  4. finance Finance and economics
  5. hardware Hardware
  6. math Mathematics
  7. science It's "Science"

format

  1. ask Ask Lobsters
  2. audio Link to audio (podcast, interview)
  3. book Link to a book (not an ad or review)
  4. pdf Link to a PDF document
  5. show Show Lobsters / Projects
  6. slides Slide deck
  7. transcript Includes transcript of audio or video
  8. video Link to a video

genre

  1. art Art
  2. event Events, conferences, and meetups
  3. historical History and retrospectives (not for things that happen to be old)
  4. job Employment/Internship opportunities
  5. news General news and current events inactive
  6. rant Rants and raves
  7. release Software releases and announcements
  8. satire Satire, parody, and other humor

interaction

  1. a11y accessibility, assistive technology, standards
  2. design Visual design
  3. visualization Data visualization

languages

  1. apl Array Programming Languages such as APL, J, and K
  2. assembly Assembly programming
  3. c C programming
  4. c++ C++ programming
  5. clojure Clojure programming
  6. concatenative stackbased languages like Forth, Factor, Joy
  7. css Cascading Style Sheets
  8. d D programming
  9. dotnet C#, F#, .NET programming
  10. elixir Elixir programming
  11. elm Elm programming
  12. erlang Erlang development
  13. fortran Fortran programming
  14. gleam Strongly-typed BEAM language
  15. go Golang programming
  16. haskell Haskell programming
  17. java Java programming
  18. javascript Javascript programming
  19. kotlin Kotlin programming
  20. lisp Lisp and Scheme programming
  21. logiclangs Prolog, Datalog, Z3, Picat, miniKanren, ASP etc. using clauses
  22. lua Lua programming
  23. ml MetaLanguage, OCaml programming
  24. nodejs Node.js programming
  25. objectivec Objective-C programming
  26. perl Perl programming
  27. php PHP programming
  28. python Python programming
  29. ruby Ruby programming
  30. rust Rust programming
  31. scala Scala programming
  32. swift Swift programming
  33. zig Zig programming

lobsters

  1. announce Site anouncement
  2. interview Lobsters interviews
  3. meta Lobsters-related bikeshedding - report bugs at https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters

os

  1. android Android
  2. dragonflybsd DragonFly BSD
  3. freebsd FreeBSD
  4. illumos illumos
  5. ios Apple iOS
  6. linux Linux
  7. mac Apple macOS
  8. netbsd NetBSD
  9. nix package manager, distribution, and related systems like guix
  10. openbsd OpenBSD
  11. unix *nix
  12. windows Windows

platforms

  1. browsers Web browsers
  2. email e-mail
  3. games Game design and study
  4. ipv6 IPv6 inactive
  5. merkle-trees And related similar data structures. Not business/scam news.
  6. mobile Mobile app/web development
  7. retrocomputing Reproductions, emulators, and other revivals of historic technologies
  8. wasm webassembly
  9. web Web development and news

practices

  1. api API development/implementation
  2. debugging Debugging techniques
  3. devops DevOps
  4. performance Performance and optimization
  5. practices Development and team practices
  6. privacy Privacy
  7. reversing Reverse engineering
  8. scaling Scaling and architecture
  9. security Netsec, appsec, and infosec
  10. testing Software testing
  11. virtualization Virtualization

tools

  1. compilers Compiler design
  2. databases Databases (SQL, NoSQL)
  3. editors Code editors and IDEs without a specific tag
  4. emacs Emacs editor
  5. systemd Linux systemd
  6. vcs Git, Mercurial, Perforce, Subversion, Jujutsu and other version control systems
  7. vibecoding Using AI/LLM, coding tools. Don't also tag with `ai`.
  8. vim Vim editor
  9. vscode Visual Studio Code editor