Daily Lobsters for 2026-11-01

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 01, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4
  

  databases testing
  

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• The support case of a customer who said that all they could see was a black screen
  

  historical windows
  

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• Avoid Public Functions Calling Other Public Functions
  

  api programming
  

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• How hard is it to check for whitespace?
  

  java performance
  

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• The Kluever Maneuver
  

  testing
  

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• Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved
  

  science
  

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• Switch lowering in GCC
  

  compilers performance
  

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• Clojure/Conj 2026
  

  video clojure
  

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• Tangled, hire a front-end accessibility expert
  

  a11y rant vcs
  

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• Shrinking NixOS Ram footprint and resource requirements to the bare minimum
  

  nix
  

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• Pidgin 3.0 Alpha 4 2.98.0 has been released
  

  release
  

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• Introducing Kwi, a new KDE terminal emulator
  

  linux
  

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