Daily Lobsters for 2026-03-15

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Compose key is magic
  

  linux
  

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• An ode to bzip
  

  compsci programming
  

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• XML is a cheap DSL
  

  programming
  

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• Baochip: What It Is, Why I'm Doing It Now, and How It Came About
  

  hardware
  

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• Libadwaita 1.9
  

  graphics release
  

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• I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me
  

  culture practices
  

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• A Guide to vim.pack (Neovim built-in plugin manager)
  

  vim
  

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• Torturing rustc by Emulating HKTs, Causing an Inductive Cycle and Borking the Compiler
  

  rust
  

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• OpenClaw and the Dream of Free Labour
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Getting started with Claude for software development
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Reinventing Python's AsyncIO
  

  python
  

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• Awash in revisionist histories about Apple's web efforts, a look at the evidence
  

  browsers rant
  

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