The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 28, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Internet Was Designed With a Narrow Waist
  programming scaling unix
  Comments
• Prig: like AWK, but uses Go for "scripting"
  go
  Comments
• Writing UTF-8 Programs in Plan 9
  c programming
  Comments
• OrioleDB: building a modern cloud-native storage engine
  databases
  Comments
• JSON improvements in SQLite 3.38.0
  databases
  Comments
• Win32 is the stable Linux userland ABI (and the consequences)
  linux practices windows
  Comments
• Exploring content of X.509 certificates
  security unix
  Comments
• $60 PC Oscilloscope Review
  hardware
  Comments
• How to make small tweaks to free software
  c linux practices
  Comments
• Nix Flakes: Packages and How to Use Them
  nix
  Comments
• C++ header files and inter-class connections
  c++
  Comments
• Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? (2019)
  historical windows
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 27, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Using Ansible & Nomad for a homelab (part 1)
  devops linux
  Comments
• Python strings are immutable, but only sometimes
  python
  Comments
• Curious lack of sprintf scaling
  c++
  Comments
• Retrofitting Async/Await in Go 1.18
  go
  Comments
• Winamp 2 reimplemented for the browser
  web
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Failing in Haskell
  haskell
  Comments
• A taste of Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Dependency hell? Not if we use functions! For library authors
  programming
  Comments
• GitLab Critical Security Release: 14.8.2, 14.7.4, and 14.6.5
  release security vcs
  Comments
• how I think when I think about programming
  programming
  Comments
• Algorithms for explaining what changed in a dataset
  databases
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 26, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Moving the kernel to modern C
  c linux
  Comments
• Zig Build System Internals
  zig
  Comments
• Foundations of Dawn: The Untyped Multistack Concatenative Calculus
  plt
  Comments
• F-Droid: how is it weakening the Android security model?
  android
  Comments
• How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2022
  rust
  Comments
• Ruby Fiber Scheduler
  ruby
  Comments
• Announcing Rust 1.59.0
  release rust
  Comments
• VIM - Minimal Setup Explained
  vim
  Comments
• OpenBSD webzine issue 7
  openbsd
  Comments
• Make Linux look exactly like Windows 95... I mean *exactly*
  linux
  Comments
• DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 1
  devops programming
  Comments
• Why you can't update Android’s GPU drivers like on your PC
  android graphics
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 25, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Chinese cybersecurity lab discovers US backdoor at Chinese system
  security
  Comments
• All New Repls are Powered By Nix
  nix web
  Comments
• Support open source that you use by paying the maintainers to talk to your team
  practices
  Comments
• import readline
  python
  Comments
• Rust Compiler Ambitions for 2022
  practices rust
  Comments
• Some things about getaddrinfo that surprised me
  c networking
  Comments
• The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8
  windows
  Comments
• Going multipath without Multipath TCP
  networking
  Comments
• Moving Python's bugs to GitHub
  python vcs
  Comments
• Swearjure - Clojure without alphanumerics
  lisp plt
  Comments
• ledit: Simple, GPU-rendered, no bullsh*t text editor
  c c++
  Comments
• Understanding Decorators in Python
  python
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 24, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Wipe your terminal clean
  art programming
  Comments
• SQLite Release 3.38.0
  databases release
  Comments
• How Bitwarden encrypts your data
  security
  Comments
• Windle
  games programming windows
  Comments
• Neptune OS: A Windows NT personality for the seL4 microkernel
  osdev
  Comments
• v0.20 of Gleam, a type safe language for the Erlang VM, is out
  erlang plt release
  Comments
• OpenSSH 8.9 Released
  cryptography openbsd release security
  Comments
• A Cursed Bug
  debugging linux
  Comments
• A Short Treatise on Bugs
  programming
  Comments
• Exploring X11 windows and devices and emulating mouse movements and keystrokes
  databases unix
  Comments
• ncspot: Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc and the likes
  audio freebsd netbsd openbsd rust unix
  Comments
• Aphorism Considered Harmful
  practices
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 23, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Linux's getrandom() Sees A 8450% Performance Improvement With Latest Code
  cryptography linux performance
  Comments
• It’s normal and it works
  design linux
  Comments
• Do not recommend: User Provided Primary Keys
  programming security
  Comments
• Dynamic Linking Is Bad For Apps And Static Linking Is Also Bad For Apps
  programming
  Comments
• Morbig: A Static parser for POSIX shell
  unix
  Comments
• Ways to break into computer science research without a formal education or degree?
  ask compsci education
  Comments
• Capcom CPS-1 Graphic system study
  games programming
  Comments
• Plex on NixOS
  nix
  Comments
• Why I love Ruby
  ruby
  Comments
• A psql hack for select * except some columns
  databases
  Comments
• IHP: A Haskell Framework for Type-Safe Web Applications
  haskell web
  Comments
• cloudflare/tubular: BSD socket API on steroids
  linux networking
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 22, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Nix Flakes: an Introduction
  nix
  Comments
• rust-analyzer joins the Rust organization
  rust
  Comments
• SMTP protocol basics from scratch in Go: receiving email from Gmail
  go networking
  Comments
• Breaking the Rules With Stateful Services
  programming
  Comments
• Live Streaming a Macintosh Plus
  mac
  Comments
• Returning values and errors
  plt
  Comments
• Thoughts On Markdown
  web
  Comments
• Software I'm Thankful For
  programming
  Comments
• Pantagruel Specification Language
  formalmethods
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Data Races in Python, Despite the Global Interpreter Lock
  performance plt python
  Comments
• Guido van Rossum interview "Python is half my life"
  historical person python
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 21, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Fastest GIF Does Not Exist
  browsers graphics web
  Comments
• PyPy v7.3.8: release of python 2.7, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9
  python release
  Comments
• Is Datalog a good language for authorization?
  a11y databases security
  Comments
• Server-Sent Events, WebSockets, and HTTP
  browsers networking web
  Comments
• Tab Keywords in Firefox
  a11y browsers
  Comments
• Hardware Acquisition Hacks
  hardware
  Comments
• OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for UNIX systems
  openbsd unix vim
  Comments
• What is software engineering?
  practices
  Comments
• A Specification of a Note-Taking Program
  formalmethods programming
  Comments
• Bagel Bites: Type Refinement
  javascript plt
  Comments
• The JDK Flight Recorder File Format
  performance
  Comments
• Oh Snap! More Lemmings (Local Privilege Escalation in snap-confine)
  linux security
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 20, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• OCaml from the Very Beginning
  book ml
  Comments
• What do you really get from IDE-driven development?
  philosophy practices
  Comments
• Going IPv6 only
  networking
  Comments
• Toy Traceroute With Ping
  networking
  Comments
• Is Rust the future of software? I hope not
  plt rant rust
  Comments
• Using the KVM API
  linux virtualization
  Comments
• Exploring OpenType Font Features
  css
  Comments
• Seamless, Fearless, and Structured Concurrency
  c performance plt rust
  Comments
• The Forgotten Secrets of the First Linux LiveCD (Yggdrasil Linux)
  video historical linux
  Comments
• Making A Cross Platform Mobile & Desktop App with Qt 6.2
  c++ programming
  Comments
• How I Taught the D Programming Language at a Russian University
  d education
  Comments
• The early days of Unix at Bell Labs
  video historical unix
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 19, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Apple's custom NVMe drives are amazingly fast - if you don't care about data integrity
  hardware linux
  Comments
• Virtual Environments and Package Management in Python
  python
  Comments
• Skip: A programming language to skip the things you have already computed
  plt
  Comments
• How much logic should I keep at the database vs. application layer?
  ask databases testing
  Comments
• The Voids of Haskell
  haskell
  Comments
• Microcontroller-modified microphone
  show c++ hardware
  Comments
• Internals of Go's new fuzzing system
  go
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Announcing Tokio Metrics 0.1
  rust
  Comments
• littlefs: A little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers
  c hardware
  Comments
• The wild west of Windows command line parsing
  windows
  Comments
• X Access Control Extension Specification (XACE)
  security unix
  Comments