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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social · Aug 04, 2026

Happy birthday to trailblazing American computer scientist Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932 – 2020) who made foundational contributions to optimizing compilers, optimizing programs and parallel computing. She was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, where she worked from 1957 to 2002 and as an emeritus fellow afterwards. She was the first woman to win the Turing Prize. 🧵1/ https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1086564033 #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histSTM #computing #mathematician #sciart #compsci

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Lobsters @lobsters@mastodon.social · Aug 01, 2026

Elevators https://lobste.rs/s/jxqf1w #compsci #math #performance #visualization https://john.fun/elevators

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ZenHeathen 🇨🇦 @ZenHeathen@beige.party · Jul 28, 2026

The library's got nothing. The bookstore (physical)'s got nothing. The bookstore (online)'s only got very expensive or entirely useless books. I even tried Amazon, which is how I ended up with this piece of garbage that's just printed PowerPoint slides. Can anyone recommend some free online learning resources for coding/programming? I want to learn Pascal. #coding #programming #courses #pascal #compsci

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Lobsters @lobsters@mastodon.social · Jul 28, 2026

Improving Heuristics (2015) via @lobsters@mastodon.social https://lobste.rs/s/ngcurk #compsci #visualization https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.html

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Lobsters @lobsters@mastodon.social · Jul 27, 2026

Zstandard Worked Example (2022) https://lobste.rs/s/yhzvzk #compsci https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2022/zstandard-part-1-concepts.html

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Lobsters @lobsters@mastodon.social · Jul 25, 2026

A Love Letter to Object Orientation https://lobste.rs/s/9mocvp #api #compsci #philosophy https://blog.mempko.com/a-love-letter-to-object-orientation/

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Lobsters @lobsters@mastodon.social · Jul 24, 2026

ALP: Adaptive Lossless Floating-Point Compression https://lobste.rs/s/g71xle #compsci #performance https://github.com/cwida/ALP

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Lobsters @lobsters@mastodon.social · Jul 24, 2026

Existentials on a Leash https://lobste.rs/s/ncpthq #compsci #haskell #plt https://cdfa.github.io/existentials-on-a-leash

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Lobsters @lobsters@robot.villas · Jul 23, 2026

Algebraic effects and handlers in portable C99 https://github.com/koka-lang/libhandler #Programming #CompSci #C99

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Rafael Pérez ☀️ @rperezrosario@mastodon.social · Jul 19, 2026

Google IDX Product Manager Kirupa Chinnathambi writes a code-backed, step-by-step review of Dijkstra's famous graph algorithm, depth, and breadth first search, touching up on Bellman-Ford and A*. This reminded me of a uni assignment where we recommended shortest path routes to passengers based on geo data from London Tube stations, using A* to compute them. "Dijkstra's Shortest Path Algorithm" #algorithms #datastructures #graphs #dfs #bfs #dijkstra #astar #compsci #javascript #programming