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

• A Maze Generator in Go in WebAssembly
  show go wasm
  Comments
• Why did the IETF specifically choose 192.168/16 to be a private IP address class?
  historical networking
  Comments
• curl those funny IPv4 addresses
  networking
  Comments
• Mastering OpenSCAD
  book education
  Comments
• Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part III
  graphics hardware reversing
  Comments
• Why Specifications Don't Compose
  formalmethods math
  Comments
• What I learned of the VOIP hacker scene by setting up a SIP Honeypot
  security
  Comments
• Reducing Rust Incremental Compilation Times on macOS by 70%
  mac performance rust
  Comments
• FreeBSD Desktop - Herbe Notifications
  freebsd
  Comments
• Why we chose Elm for Humio’s web UI
  elm
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• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
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• ZFS dRAID Finally – Sneak Peak into Latest and Long Awaited Feature of OpenZFS
  freebsd illumos linux
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 19, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Listing the contents of a remote ZIP archive, without downloading the entire file
  programming ruby web
  Comments
• typeup - a markup language that gets out of your way
  show programming
  Comments
• Writing a Technical Book
  book
  Comments
• Gnome 40 - The anti-desktop desktop
  design rant
  Comments
• Optimizing string::append is harder than it looks
  c++
  Comments
• Web Pages Must Live Forever (1998)
  web
  Comments
• NO! Programming as Other
  historical practices
  Comments
• J1: a small Forth CPU Core for FPGAs
  pdf hardware
  Comments
• Using OpenGL instead of CUDA for machine learning
  ai
  Comments
• What's in the box?
  go programming rust
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• Rediscovering hamming code
  programming rust
  Comments
• Protel I
  historical plt
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 18, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• cursed_font: A 9x18 bitmapped font based on Chicago
  show design
  Comments
• How I Implemented /dev/printerfact in Rust
  linux rust
  Comments
• Why fnm was rewritten in Rust
  ml rust
  Comments
• Crash Course on Notation in Programming Language Theory (2012)
  plt
  Comments
• Misinformation about Permissions Policy and FLoC
  browsers privacy web
  Comments
• A Casino Gets Hacked Through a Fish-Tank Thermometer
  security
  Comments
• LLVM 12.0.0
  compilers release
  Comments
• Products and sums, named and anonymous
  haskell
  Comments
• Preface - an opinionated functional programming library for OCaml
  ml
  Comments
• Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Everything Easy is Hard Again
  design web
  Comments
• trapped in the technologist factory
  culture
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 17, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• New tag proposal: raku
  meta
  Comments
• Ethical anti-design, or designing products that people can't get addicted to
  design
  Comments
• Orbit Tessellation
  graphics
  Comments
• Read from databases, write to APIs
  api databases
  Comments
• Single board computers?
  ask hardware
  Comments
• PEP 563, PEP 649 and the future of pydantic
  python
  Comments
• My Ideal Service
  practices web
  Comments
• My Go Executable Files Are Still Getting Larger (What's New in 2021 and Go 1.16)
  go
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Mac Chimes of Death
  mac
  Comments
• GC in Ruby: What is GC, Mark & Sweep, and how Ruby marks objects
  compilers programming ruby
  Comments
• Actually, You Are Rolling Your Own Crypto
  crypto
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 16, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases
  databases
  Comments
• Rust in the Linux kernel
  linux rust
  Comments
• The Sisyphean Task Of DNS Client Config on Linux
  linux systemd
  Comments
• Pure Rust Implementation of Apple Code Signing
  mac rust
  Comments
• Learn Vim Progressively
  vim
  Comments
• Morpheus Turns a CPU Into a Rubik’s Cube to Defeat Hackers
  hardware security
  Comments
• Explosions [in Doom]
  audio video games historical math
  Comments
• My Dog's Garage Runs OpenBSD
  hardware openbsd
  Comments
• A zero dependency Rust IRC bot customized with shell scripts
  programming
  Comments
• Ruby on Rails Controller Patterns and Anti-patterns
  ruby
  Comments
• The GNU Assembly
  culture release
  Comments
• CodeCov Bash Uploader Security Update
  security
  Comments

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

• Why some developers are avoiding app store headaches by going web-only
  mobile web
  Comments
• Deno 1.9 Release
  javascript release
  Comments
• Tools that I want
  debugging programming
  Comments
• ocaml-wayland (pure OCaml wayland protocol library)
  linux ml
  Comments
• Can continuation passing style code perform well?
  lisp
  Comments
• I made a 5-key keyboard because I could
  hardware
  Comments
• Why Rust strings seem hard
  rust
  Comments
• Use DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome
  privacy web
  Comments
• Email vs. Tool du Jour
  email practices
  Comments
• Solving Connect 4: how to build a perfect AI (2019)
  ai c++ games
  Comments
• "a2d3gE: Vim normal mode grammar
  vim
  Comments
• How I Found Myself in a Command Line vs. GUI Meeting
  culture design devops
  Comments

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

• Rust is for Professionals
  rust
  Comments
• Rust shenanigans: return type polymorphism
  rust
  Comments
• Bitemporality: More Than a Design Pattern
  databases
  Comments
• FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE Now Available
  freebsd release
  Comments
• Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust?
  javascript wasm
  Comments
• Inflex - Online spreadsheets re-invented
  haskell
  Comments
• Use console.log() like a pro
  javascript
  Comments
• How to turn an image black and white
  graphics visualization
  Comments
• Livebook - interactive notepad for Elixir and Nx
  elixir
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• X.Org server security advisory: April 13, 2021
  security
  Comments
• Release of Oil 0.8.9
  programming release unix
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• Left joins, pt. II
  databases
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 13, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What exactly was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]?
  historical unix
  Comments
• Playing the Open Source Game
  culture zig
  Comments
• RMS addresses the free software community
  culture person
  Comments
• Emacs JIT ready to merge
  emacs
  Comments
• zhuowei/nft_ptr
  c++ merkle-trees
  Comments
• Requesting an "incident" tag
  meta
  Comments
• Build a Raspberry Pi Linux System the Hard Way
  linux
  Comments
• Wing: blog engine in CHICKEN Scheme
  lisp web
  Comments
• Introducing Pipeworld: Spreadsheet Dataflow Computing
  show unix
  Comments
• Mugo, a toy compiler for a subset of Go that can compile itself
  assembly compilers go
  Comments
• Why does SSL client report google's certificate "self-signed"?
  security
  Comments
• guile's reader, in guile
  lisp
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 12, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• OpenTTD Went to Steam to Solve a Hard Problem
  linux
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• Making the MNT Reform my own
  hardware
  Comments
• Linus Torvalds on where Rust will fit into Linux
  linux rust
  Comments
• The hidden insights in developers' Google searches
  programming
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• Reconstructing a lost NES game from 30-year-old source code disks
  assembly games historical
  Comments
• Court rules grocery store’s inaccessible website isn’t an ADA violation
  a11y law
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• Elixir Memory - Not Quite Free
  debugging elixir
  Comments
• Zig Playground
  zig
  Comments
• Apple Silicon M1 Power Consumption Deep Dive Part 1: Safari vs Chrome
  mac performance
  Comments
• Demystifying programs that create programs, part 1: A disassembler
  assembly compilers
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• Automatically turn on printer when there are jobs in queue
  hardware linux networking unix
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• Workflow: What is it and why should you care?
  distributed go
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 11, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Embrace the Grind
  practices
  Comments
• uBlock Origin works best on Firefox (technical analysis)
  browsers
  Comments
• The state of toolchains in NetBSD
  compilers debugging netbsd
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• Why concatenative programming matters (2012)
  compsci plt
  Comments
• What is CapTP, and what does it enable?
  distributed privacy web
  Comments
• Was the NE2000 Really That Bad?
  hardware historical linux networking
  Comments
• A look at LLVM - comparing clamp implementations
  c++ compilers performance
  Comments
• Dissecting the UNIX v6 Allocator
  c historical unix
  Comments
• A Ceph war story
  devops practices
  Comments
• A brief history of the numeric keypad (2018)
  a11y design
  Comments
• Setting up Starlink, SpaceX's Satellite Internet
  hardware networking
  Comments
• Oil Doesn't Require Quoting Everywhere
  programming unix
  Comments