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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 20, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• User power, not power users: htop and its design philosophy
  design practices
  Comments
• Go's ioutil package to be deprecated in 1.16
  go
  Comments
• runson.cloud
  networking
  Comments
• Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing
  c lua programming
  Comments
• Tailscale on NixOS: A New Minecraft Server in Ten Minutes
  devops networking
  Comments
• Fennel 0.8.0 released
  lisp lua release
  Comments
• Elasticsearch does not belong to Elastic
  law rant
  Comments
• Go proposal: types that can only be created by defining package
  go plt
  Comments
• godocs.io is now available
  go
  Comments
• Spooky action at a distance
  c c++ debugging plt
  Comments
• The Evolution of a Research Paper
  compsci
  Comments
• My Favourite DevTool Features
  browsers web
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 19, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Crossover Project
  show practices
  Comments
• 2021 Mod Applications
  announce
  Comments
• How do you find your software and tools?
  ask practices
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Jami - Share, freely and privately
  distributed privacy
  Comments
• 2020 Game
  games
  Comments
• That XOR Trick
  programming
  Comments
• An introduction to Morphic: Self's UI toolkit
  programming
  Comments
• Deploy your own Matrix server on Fedora CoreOS
  devops linux
  Comments
• CS 498MC • Martian Computing
  education osdev
  Comments
• Traps to Avoid When Reviewing Code Changes
  practices
  Comments
• Tracking down a segfault that suddenly started happening
  linux
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 18, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• We can do better than Signal
  privacy
  Comments
• It is your moral obligation to use Firefox (2019)
  browsers web
  Comments
• the tragedy of gemini
  networking web
  Comments
• Maybe Considered Harmful
  haskell plt
  Comments
• The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla
  emacs vim
  Comments
• Cross-process locks in Rust (for the Sanakirja database engine)
  linux rust
  Comments
• Scientific Computing in Rust
  rust science
  Comments
• FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report 2020 Q4
  freebsd
  Comments
• Self Transporter: how to share your Self code
  programming
  Comments
• Gentoo Linux's 2020 in retrospect
  linux
  Comments
• Proposing a new tag - algorithms
  meta
  Comments
• Diff the behavior of two python functions
  formalmethods python testing
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 17, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I told you so, 2021 edition
  linux security
  Comments
• Running a fake power plant on the internet for a month
  security
  Comments
• Chat without servers
  dragonflybsd
  Comments
• Would Rust secure cURL?
  c rust
  Comments
• REST Servers in Go: Part 1 - standard library
  go
  Comments
• Does It Matter to Test-First or toTest-Last?
  pdf science testing
  Comments
• Go Slice Tricks Cheat Sheet
  go
  Comments
• The Problem with Gradle
  java
  Comments
• Apple M1 Assembly Language Hello World
  assembly mac
  Comments
• Tablet manufacturers let us all down, or, why Windows 8 flopped
  windows
  Comments
• Fast commits for ext4
  linux
  Comments
• What are you working on this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 16, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A Week With Plan 9
  compsci osdev
  Comments
• Wine 6.0
  osdev release
  Comments
• Oberon
  historical osdev
  Comments
• RSS Bandwidth Fixes
  web
  Comments
• Lua, a misunderstood language
  lua
  Comments
• Code Budgets
  practices programming
  Comments
• Our Dumb Security Questionnaire
  practices security
  Comments
• Some Bearish Thoughts on RISC-V
  hardware
  Comments
• My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions. Yours Might Be Too
  networking
  Comments
• Completing Advent of Code 2020 Day 1 in x86-64 Assembly
  assembly
  Comments
• An accessible introduction to type theory and implementing a type-checker
  plt
  Comments
• Rust is a hard way to make a web API
  rust
  Comments

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