Daily Lobsters for 2025-08-11

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Zig's Lovely Syntax
  

  zig
  

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• Lobsters client for Emacs
  

  show emacs
  

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• The First Time I Was Almost Fired From Apple
  

  design historical
  

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• JanetDocs
  

  show lisp
  

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• Why do we even need SIMD instructions ?
  

  performance
  

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• Why Racket? Why Lisp? (2014)
  

  lisp
  

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• What even is distributed systems
  

  distributed
  

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• Notes on a smaller Rust (2019)
  

  plt
  

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• GPTs and feeling left behind
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Why I prefer human-readable file formats
  

  practices
  

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• Creating high quality electronics schematics
  

  hardware
  

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• Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers
  

  networking
  

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