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

• 0.13 of Gleam, a type safe language for the Erlang VM, is out
  erlang plt release
  Comments
• Apple to allow socket filters/firewalls (Little Snitch, etc) to monitor/block all network traffic
  mac networking privacy security
  Comments
• Structured programming: how to write proper if statements
  programming
  Comments
• Debian 11 'bullseye' freeze started
  linux
  Comments
• A Complete Course of the Raku programming language
  perl
  Comments
• The most thoroughly commented linker script (probably)
  c
  Comments
• Email is the messenger you should migrate to
  email
  Comments
• Inline caching
  c performance plt
  Comments
• Dissecting OpenTelemetry Go Tracing
  go
  Comments
• The Sublime Developer Efficiency of Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView
  elixir web
  Comments
• A tour of Self
  programming
  Comments
• A totally biased comparison of Zutty (to some better-known X terminal emulators)
  unix
  Comments

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

• Server-sent events: a simple way to stream events from a server
  networking web
  Comments
• The terminal, the console and the shell - what are they?
  linux
  Comments
• happy-space: a whitespace-sensitive calculator
  show plt
  Comments
• Idris 2 version 0.3.0 Released
  compilers release
  Comments
• BeagleV: An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux
  hardware linux
  Comments
• Debian discusses vendoring—again
  linux practices
  Comments
• An unlikely database migration
  databases go
  Comments
• 10 years(-ish) of Elixir
  elixir
  Comments
• Becoming physically immune to brute-force attacks
  crypto science security
  Comments
• null
  programming
  Comments
• What they don’t tell you about setting up a WireGuard VPN
  networking
  Comments
• A rabbit hole full of Lisp
  emacs lisp
  Comments

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

• Philosophies of Rust and Haskell
  haskell rust
  Comments
• Lessons from my first (very bad) on-call experience
  practices
  Comments
• GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker (and my toilets are blocked)
  linux rant
  Comments
• The Quietest Mechanical Keyboard
  hardware
  Comments
• draw with noise
  art graphics
  Comments
• It’s time to switch to Docker BuildKit
  devops
  Comments
• Theseus OS
  osdev rust
  Comments
• A Proposal for Adding Generics to Go
  go
  Comments
• Amazon Echo Flex: Microphone Mute, Real or Fake?
  hardware reversing
  Comments
• Design decisions I do not regret
  plt
  Comments
• Create personal prints from your GitHub contributions
  show art
  Comments
• The First Zig Website Redesign
  zig
  Comments

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

• Noise Planets
  art graphics
  Comments
• usbkill the OpenBSD way
  openbsd
  Comments
• iPhone 7 with dead NAND netbooting unmodified Ubuntu 20.04 arm64 over usb gadget ethernet
  hardware linux
  Comments
• XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought
  unix
  Comments
• Re-Introducing Hash Indexes in PostgreSQL
  databases performance
  Comments
• The confusing world of USB
  hardware
  Comments
• Arch manual pages now live
  linux
  Comments
• Code streaming: hundred ounces of nuances
  practices
  Comments
• What Silicon Valley "Gets" about Software Engineers that Traditional Companies Do Not
  practices
  Comments
• How to keep your Git history clean with interactive rebase
  vcs
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Why Haskell is our first choice for building production software systems
  haskell
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 11, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• PeerTube v3 : it’s a live, a liiiiive
  release
  Comments
• The Design of the Roland Juno oscillators
  hardware
  Comments
• The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen
  crypto
  Comments
• A quick introduction to MQTT for IOT
  go
  Comments
• The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS
  devops
  Comments
• A WebAssembly Powered Augmented Reality Sudoku Solver
  programming rust wasm
  Comments
• Remote work notes from a longtime BSD developer
  freebsd practices
  Comments
• Learning Elixir's `GenServer` with a real-world example
  elixir
  Comments
• Exfiltration of data by listening to ethernet
  video hardware security
  Comments
• Surprising Ctags Behaviour
  programming unix
  Comments
• Software is drowning the world
  practices rant
  Comments
• Blocks Courtesy of Konrad Zuse
  plt
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 10, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Woo for its own sake
  programming rant
  Comments
• Haskell is a Bad Programming Language
  haskell rant
  Comments
• Hacking QR code design
  art design python web
  Comments
• Science confirms it: Websites really do all look the same
  design web
  Comments
• Ray Tracing in pure CMake
  graphics
  Comments
• Falsehoods programmers believe about… Biometrics
  programming
  Comments
• Reversing TL-WR840N
  hardware reversing security
  Comments
• C++ std::async with a concurrency limit (via semaphores)
  c++
  Comments
• Why are Reusable Components so Difficult? (2016)
  programming
  Comments
• How to Set Up Borg Backup on NixOS
  devops
  Comments
• Tails - Deprecation of the Tails Verification extension
  crypto security
  Comments
• Polyjuice: Automated, General-purpose Counterfactual Generation
  pdf ai
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 9, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Generational references 2.3x faster than reference counting (unoptimized)
  compilers performance plt
  Comments
• Steam's login method is kinda interesting
  security web
  Comments
• Lobsters battlestations and screenshots (2021)
  ask practices
  Comments
• Why I am Janet
  programming
  Comments
• Peter Norvig's Pytudes: Advent of Code 2020
  python
  Comments
• Hush Keyboards with Hushboard
  linux python
  Comments
• Library Writing Realizations
  practices
  Comments
• What are you working on this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• How Tail Call Optimization Works
  programming
  Comments
• A lean HTML editor with instant preview
  browsers programming web
  Comments
• Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach | Lex Fridman Podcast #42
  video ai
  Comments
• Scipy Lecture Notes
  python science
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 8, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Plaintext HTTP in a Modern World
  web
  Comments
• Rebuilding the most popular spellchecker. Part 1 (Groking Hunspell)
  python reversing
  Comments
• My stack will outlive yours
  rant web
  Comments
• Introducing Preql - a new relational programming language, that compiles to SQL
  show databases programming python
  Comments
• The _intf trick
  ml
  Comments
• Encrypted Client Hello: the future of ESNI in Firefox
  browsers crypto
  Comments
• Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part I
  hardware mac reversing
  Comments
• The GL-MT300N A $20 hackable Linux Router
  hardware linux networking
  Comments
• Repair & restoration of a scratched PS2 game disc - How to resurface discs
  video hardware
  Comments
• Build tools for a multiplayer browser game
  games javascript web
  Comments
• Elegancy of Go's error handling
  go
  Comments
• Key Recovery on Google Titan Key
  crypto security
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 7, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• dd, bs= and why you should use conv=fsync
  debugging linux
  Comments
• What "glue" lanugages do you use/like?
  ask practices programming unix
  Comments
• Extracting Files From an Archive Format I Understand Way Too Much
  games reversing rust
  Comments
• Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2
  art historical
  Comments
• Unix shell pipelines have two usage patterns
  unix
  Comments
• DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
  ai
  Comments
• Wasmer 1.0
  release rust wasm
  Comments
• Introducing the tag
  show javascript
  Comments
• RISC-V Vector Instructions vs ARM and x86 SIMD
  compsci hardware
  Comments
• Who’s at the Helm?
  devops security
  Comments
• Lokke: Clojure for Guile Scheme
  clojure lisp
  Comments
• Installing Microsoft Windows 98 in DOSBox-X
  historical windows
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 6, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• systemd user services
  systemd
  Comments
• LibreSSL languishes on Linux
  linux
  Comments
• Crustaceans, 2021 will be the year of ${TECHNOLOGY}
  ask practices
  Comments
• How to Free Disk Space on MacBook used for Development
  mac practices web
  Comments
• A few bytes here, a few there, pretty soon you’re talking real memory
  go performance
  Comments
• Getting root on a 4G LTE mobile hotspot
  debugging security windows
  Comments
• Load testing is hard, and the tools are... not great. But why?
  testing
  Comments
• How to Build a To-Do App with Rust – A Hands-On Intro to the Rust Programming Language
  rust
  Comments
• Why I Consistently Reach for Server-Driven Content Negotiation (For Versioning)
  api web
  Comments
• What books are you reading?
  ask book
  Comments
• How to survive?
  vcs
  Comments
• Handel: procedural programming language for writting songs in browser
  art javascript programming
  Comments