I'm getting Lobsters office hours started at twitch.tv/pushcx - drop in to chat about the site or just see what maintenance looks like. I think I spotted a significant caching bug, so I'll start the stream there. More info: push.cx/stream
When you hit an article that smells like AI, do you immediately click away? Hold your nose and keep reading if the topic is interesting? Take note of the author and never read their work again? Please share! forms.gle/UcpUPzZjaV8W...
South Bay Systems returns for its April meetup on the 30th. This time we have @cliffclick.bsky.social giving a walkthrough of his teaching language for Sea of Nodes!
Sign up now! luma.com/nnq9aq27
Sarah Christoff and Carlos Sousa are featured developers looking for work. Talk with them!
And a clarification on talking about projects you've worked on.
I welcome experts to talk related to their expertise. I just want to avoid this being a place you come to shill your own work.
I pay experienced developers a small fee to write for The Consensus.
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The Consensus Weekly just went out. Covering funding news; IC, management, and internship job openings; and a new section on experienced developers looking for work.
This is just a snapshot of over 600 job openings and over 80 funding announcements in the last three months.
BugBash is now completely sold out, so we can go back to our usual programming: nerdy blog posts about niche data structures.
@bill-pugh.bksy.social came up with skip lists at @univofmaryland.bsky.social in 1990, so UMD now provides our production database as well as half our engineering team.
A peek at some early results from the “how/why do you use LLMs to draft tech blogs” survey…
How often respondents use LLMs to draft blogs (remember that the survey is targeted to those who have tried it, at least once or twice, NOT those who have refrained)
jemalloc is a popular malloc implementation. By simply installing a package and setting an environment variable you might get magical performance gains without editing a line of code.
But development stalled. So who's using it today? Quite a few major projects.
theconsensus.dev/p/2026/04/16...
(And all of the MST3K sword and sandals flicks.)
I liked it.
But I also have Jungle Cruise (2021) and Jumanji (2017) on repeat.
We are going to put some of the MoreVMs'26 talks online.
First up:
How Many Compilers Is Too Many? A Look at V8’s History, Tradeoffs, and Architectural Choices
By Leszek Swirski from Google's V8 team
youtu.be/LpJ79MxplUk
C interpreters underlie many of our most widely used language implementations -- but they're slow. Wouldn't it be great if we could turn them into JIT compiling VMs? This video shows what happens when we do just that to the normal Lua VM (first) and "yklua" (Lua w/JIT, second).
Today we're open sourcing the Xata platform, a cloud-native Postgres platform.
- Fast copy-on-write branching.
- Automatic scale-to-zero.
- 100% Vanilla Postgres. We run upstream Postgres, no modifications.
- Production grade: HA, failover/switchover, upgrades, PITR, IP filtering, etc.
> Faith-based computing versus the unnatural science
George is a treasure
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ok so my ex yc vp is vv go go on ai rn bc he is in an sv vc gc or we -- my em is in on it w/ ai as an os to do ui qa in ci -- so tl dr ig im tl of ai ui qa ?? rn ai ui qa v1 is cc in an hv vm on my pc on gh pr xd
Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Sugu Sougoumarane (ex-Vitess/PlanetScale) will present the architecture of @supabase.com's Multigres horizontal sharding system for Postgres. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs...
Congrats to lobsters, passing 20,000 users
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To clarify the link was to the subscribe form. At the time you could only get it in your email unless you were a paid subscriber.
I've edited the subscribe form now to link to the weekly archive and made the weekly archive available for everyone.
> Normal Computing
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How so?
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DataFusion 53 came out last week. I took a look at the individuals and companies who committed the most.
(paywall has expired)
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Yay, SIGMOD just published the paper I wrote with @muratdemirbas.bsky.social and Lingzhi Deng, it's about strengthening Raft's consistency and time-to-recovery lnkd.in/ef6qUJzw
For two decades, S3 has been an object store, but today it's broader. S3 Files lets you mount any bucket as a file system—Andy Warfield tells the full story; no copies, no sync scripts, no choosing between file and object. www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/04/s3-f...
My department is looking to hire a professor of practice in CS, with a focus on AI. Job posting below. If you have questions I'll do my best to answer them, else find someone who can! We are in Providence, easy commute access from Boston.
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37970844...
The Consensus Standard, March 2026 is now out.
The monthly newsletter recapping our articles as well as happenings (releases, funding, jobs) in software infrastructure.
I first tried to read this book in 2018 and couldn't make it through because I thought it was too hard.
8 years later it's the only book I recommend every developer reads, and I had the chance to review the 2nd edition.
Join a study group, give it a read.
