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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 21, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Is it better to teach beginner coders a low level or a high level language as their first language?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Structural pattern matching in Python 3.10
  python
  Comments
• Google Docs in a clean-room browser
  browsers
  Comments
• Arcan as Operating System Design
  osdev
  Comments
• Swift Regrets
  plt swift
  Comments
• Let's Encrypt's Root Certificate is expiring
  security web
  Comments
• Imaging mounted disk volumes under duress
  linux release
  Comments
• v0.17 of Gleam, a type safe language for the Erlang VM, is out
  erlang plt release
  Comments
• So what is the deal with A/UX anyways?
  historical mac unix
  Comments
• AI and automation are at odds
  ai
  Comments
• PCB Metro Map
  hardware
  Comments
• Fuzzing Zig Code Using AFL++
  zig
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 20, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Is the formal methods winter about to end?
  ask formalmethods
  Comments
• Sidenotes In Web Design
  design web
  Comments
• The elements of git
  vcs
  Comments
• The DragonFlyBSD Operating System (2004)
  pdf dragonflybsd osdev unix
  Comments
• A History of Clojure with Q&A
  video clojure historical
  Comments
• Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s
  pdf freebsd hardware networking performance
  Comments
• Rust on the MOS 6502: Beyond Fibonacci
  rust
  Comments
• Insight Debugger
  assembly debugging
  Comments
• Oil Has Multi-line Commands and String Literals
  programming unix
  Comments
• Classic Console Neue
  design
  Comments
• NetHack Challenge
  games science
  Comments
• Infrastructure as SQL
  databases devops
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 19, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• DOS Subsystem for Linux
  linux
  Comments
• What I Learnt Becoming a Tech Lead
  practices programming
  Comments
• How We Made Playable Quotes for the Game Boy
  historical reversing virtualization
  Comments
• Why We Migrated from Kubernetes to Nomad
  devops
  Comments
• Introducing Bagel: A statically typed, reactive language with pure and impure functions
  javascript plt
  Comments
• chkservice: ncurses-based TUI for systemd
  linux programming systemd
  Comments
• My pain building a WYSIWYG editor with contenteditable
  web
  Comments
• sysz: An fzf terminal UI for systemctl
  systemd
  Comments
• Our Next Trip to Integer Partitions
  math
  Comments
• Q&A with the co-creator of the 6502
  hardware historical
  Comments
• How does Tailscale's MagicDNS work?
  ask networking
  Comments
• Upgraded Homemade Silicon Chips
  video hardware
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 18, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ditch your version manager
  programming
  Comments
• Where are IPv3 and IPv5?
  historical networking
  Comments
• Using Podman with BuildKit, the better Docker image builder
  devops
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Shenandoah in OpenJDK 17: Sub-millisecond GC pauses
  java performance
  Comments
• Easy Type-Safe Integer Types In C++
  c++
  Comments
• Version Control Without Git
  vcs
  Comments
• the keyword `class` has no more reason to exist
  c++
  Comments
• Building Common Lisp Executables
  lisp
  Comments
• Chatons
  culture philosophy
  Comments
• chibicc can bootstrap cproc
  show c compilers
  Comments
• Linux Executables Deployed as Stealth Windows Loaders
  security
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 17, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A defense of boring languages (2015)
  programming
  Comments
• The long-term consequences of maintainers’ actions
  practices
  Comments
• Rocket: A Web Framework for Rust
  rust web
  Comments
• Unicode 14.0.0
  programming
  Comments
• Marginalia Search
  release web
  Comments
• Eyes Tell All: Irregular Pupil Shapes Reveal GAN-generated Faces
  pdf ai
  Comments
• Building an Alternative Ecosystem
  api linux
  Comments
• Better x86 emulation with Live CDs
  virtualization
  Comments
• PDM - Python package manager with PEP 582 support
  python
  Comments
• Introducing Matchbox - painless peer-to-peer networking in rust web assembly
  networking rust wasm
  Comments
• Debugging by starting a REPL at a breakpoint is fun
  debugging python ruby
  Comments
• Exactly once delivery from Kafka to Delta Lake with Rust
  databases distributed rust
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 16, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Go'ing Insane Part One: Endless Error Handling
  go
  Comments
• There are (at least) two types of package managers
  programming
  Comments
• /dev.space: A digital hackerspace
  show culture
  Comments
• Time-Travel Debugging in your Browser DevTools with Replay
  debugging web
  Comments
• OpenBSD's pledge and unveil from Python
  openbsd python
  Comments
• Python Anti-Pattern
  python
  Comments
• Python in 2021: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
  python
  Comments
• Turing Oversold
  compsci historical person
  Comments
• tdunning/t-digest: A new data structure for accurate on-line accumulation of rank-based statistics such as quantiles and trimmed means
  compsci
  Comments
• “Secret” Agent Exposes Azure Customers To Unauthorized Code Execution
  security
  Comments
• Why not Signal?
  security
  Comments
• Practical API Design at Netflix, Part 1: Using Protobuf FieldMask
  api
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 15, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Go library providing algorithms optimized to leverage the characteristics of modern CPUs
  assembly go performance
  Comments
• Java 17 / JDK 17: General Availability
  java release
  Comments
• Conventional Comments
  practices
  Comments
• Travis CI secrets were leaking to forks via pull request builds
  security
  Comments
• A good old-​fashioned Perl log analyzer
  perl
  Comments
• What have people used for an E-mail send relay?
  ask email
  Comments
• A portable CP/M machine
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS
  css web
  Comments
• List Homomorphisms and Parallelism
  plt
  Comments
• LLVM internals, part 3: from bitcode to IR
  compilers rust
  Comments
• Randomizing the Alert Sound on a Mac
  mac
  Comments
• Spasm: Write single page applications in D that compile to webassembly
  d wasm
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 14, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Racket GUI screenshots
  lisp
  Comments
• GUI With Gio
  go
  Comments
• Mozilla has automated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows
  browsers
  Comments
• Re-visiting Gopher on A/UX
  unix
  Comments
• Reverse-Engineering Apple Dictionary
  reversing
  Comments
• Writing a Doom-style shader for Unity (2017)
  games graphics
  Comments
• Pushing Unity To The Limit - Hyperbolica Devlog #6
  video games
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• C++20 Oxymoron: constexpr virtual
  c++
  Comments
• FORCEDENTRY: NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild
  ios security
  Comments
• Ghost in the Shell - Learn Shell Scripting
  unix
  Comments
• Make your custom .NET GC - "whys" and "hows" (2020)
  video c++ dotnet
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 13, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Resource efficient Thread Pools with Zig
  performance zig
  Comments
• The Sumerian Game: The most important video game you’ve never heard of
  games historical
  Comments
• JSON Vulnerability in Haskell's Aeson library
  haskell
  Comments
• Q500, The Weirdest Optical Mouse
  video hardware
  Comments
• I got the J language working on OpenBSD
  apl openbsd
  Comments
• Go doc comment revisions: headings, lists, and links · Discussion #48305 · golang/go
  go
  Comments
• GlueSQL: SQL Database Engine as a Library
  databases
  Comments
• Code Coverage for Zig with Callgrind
  zig
  Comments
• Ray casting in 2D game engines
  games graphics
  Comments
• I don't care about cookies
  browsers web
  Comments
• Emulating AMD Approximate Arithmetic Instructions On Intel
  assembly debugging
  Comments
• In Search of David Long’s 751-point “Adventure”
  games historical
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 12, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• PalmOS on Raspberry Pi
  hardware
  Comments
• if ... then ... else had to be invented
  slides transcript historical
  Comments
• Cleaning up header bars in GNOME 41
  design
  Comments
• LunarVim: An opinionated, extensible, and fast IDE layer for Neovim
  vim
  Comments
• Introducing Coalton: How to Have Our (Typed) Cake and (Safely) Eat It Too, in Common Lisp
  lisp plt
  Comments
• ~60x speed-up of Linux "perf"
  performance
  Comments
• Why that Thunderbolt add-in card doesn’t work properly in your unsupported PC
  hardware
  Comments
• Quadratic algorithms are slow (and hashmaps are fast)
  performance programming
  Comments
• Write code that's easy to delete, and easy to debug too
  practices programming
  Comments
• WhatsApp – Security of End-to-End Encrypted Backups
  pdf security
  Comments
• Apple II Double High Resolution Graphics (DHGR) - Pushing Limits
  graphics historical
  Comments
• Short summaries of recent results in empirical software engineering research
  practices
  Comments