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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 28, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The code I’m still ashamed of (2016)
  practices
  Comments
• New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4,000 unsecured databases
  databases security
  Comments
• resume.md: a Markdown resume
  css
  Comments
• A silly thing you can do with the Ruby parser
  ruby
  Comments
• OCellator: a lispy synth language with structural editor
  lisp
  Comments
• What are you writing?
  ask web
  Comments
• The falsehoods of anti-AGPL propaganda
  law rant
  Comments
• Origin of :=
  historical
  Comments
• Some SQL Tricks of an Application DBA
  databases performance
  Comments
• Writing a file system from scratch in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Preliminary benchmarking results for a Haskell I/O manager backend based on io_uring
  haskell performance
  Comments
• Boids in WebAssembly Using Go
  games go programming wasm
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 27, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns
  browsers web
  Comments
• Socialism’s DIY Computer
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Fundamentals of the Vulkan Graphics API: Why Rendering a Triangle is Complicated
  graphics
  Comments
• SOIL: Single Open Intermediate Language
  compilers
  Comments
• Richter - A modern Quake engine
  games graphics rust
  Comments
• Small Mailserver Best Current Practices
  email
  Comments
• Should I use Chapel or Julia for my next project? (2017)
  performance plt
  Comments
• My Writing Setup
  emacs
  Comments
• ToaruOS: A Hobby Operating System
  osdev
  Comments
• Ansible-defined Homelab
  devops
  Comments
• Remake - GNU Make with comprehensible tracing and a debugger
  c c++ debugging devops
  Comments
• Inside the 8086 processor, tiny charge pumps create a negative voltage
  hardware historical
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 26, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Cryptography is not Magic
  crypto programming
  Comments
• On Liberating My Smartwatch From Cloud Services
  hardware privacy
  Comments
• Bloom filters debunked: Dispelling 30 Years of bad math with Coq
  compsci
  Comments
• ice-forth: A self-hosted Forth on the 6502 for creating NES cartridges
  assembly
  Comments
• Good Logging
  practices
  Comments
• Google Finally Begins Their Open-Source Dance Around Linux User-Space Threading
  programming
  Comments
• Wayland and LVGL on PinePhone with Ubuntu Touch
  graphics linux
  Comments
• Ten Years of Window Systems - A Retrospective View (1985)
  design historical osdev
  Comments
• RFD 1 Requests for Discussion
  practices
  Comments
• 20 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Built Apple's G4 Cube. It Bombed
  hardware historical mac
  Comments
• Unshaky: software utility for macOS laptops with butterfly keyboard double press problems
  hardware mac
  Comments
• LaTeX Typesetting – Part 1
  practices
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 25, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• TinyPilot: Build a KVM Over IP for Under $100
  hardware
  Comments
• Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply
  math
  Comments
• Langcraft: The LLVM target for Minecraft you've never wanted
  compilers rust
  Comments
• Will RISC-V Revolutionize Computing?
  assembly hardware
  Comments
• Cursive: The IDE for beautiful Clojure code
  clojure
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• How Gödel’s Proof Works
  math
  Comments
• The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages (1987)
  pdf compsci historical plt
  Comments
• You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (2013)
  practices satire
  Comments
• A Better Cheatsheet
  education
  Comments
• GitHub Arctic Vault, Code and Memory
  philosophy
  Comments
• Wiki.js, an open source JavaScript wiki
  javascript
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 24, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Rust explained using easy English
  rust
  Comments
• Cross-compiling to Redox using Nix
  osdev rust
  Comments
• Why you shouldn’t write your content in Uppercase, instead use CSS
  a11y css
  Comments
• Ground Control to Major TOML: Why Buildpacks Use a Most Peculiar Format
  devops
  Comments
• Verified seL4 on secure RISC-V processors
  hardware osdev security
  Comments
• How Flash games shaped the video games industry
  historical
  Comments
• C's main() is one of the places where Unix's user and kernel APIs differ
  api c historical unix
  Comments
• Nuclei: Proactive IO & Runtime system
  rust
  Comments
• New features in gnuplot 5.4 [LWN.net]
  graphics math release
  Comments
• The SIEUFERD Project
  databases
  Comments
• You can install fonts with homebrew?
  mac
  Comments
• Cognitect Joins Nubank
  clojure
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 23, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Go draft design proposal for file system interfaces and embedding files
  go
  Comments
• IPv4, IPv6, and a sudden change in attitude
  networking
  Comments
• Inside a Collaborative Text Editor
  compsci programming
  Comments
• Essays on programming I think about a lot
  programming
  Comments
• Replace PGP With an HTTPS Form
  crypto security
  Comments
• El Gantt – A Gantt chart/calendar for Orgmode
  emacs
  Comments
• Elo sucks — better multiplayer rating systems for smaller games
  games
  Comments
• Avoid character-by-character processing when performance matters
  c++
  Comments
• Leaving Google Analytics is Finally Plausible
  privacy web
  Comments
• Exploring Algol 68 in the 21st century
  historical plt
  Comments
• Svelte <3 TypeScript
  javascript release web
  Comments
• What are the benefits of using one mathematical notation over another?
  math
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 22, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel
  practices programming
  Comments
• Return and Enter Are Two Different Keys
  mac
  Comments
• What's New in Thunderbird 78
  email release
  Comments
• Can You Use FreeBSD for Developer Machine in 2020?
  freebsd
  Comments
• A Month-and-a-Half of Self-Hosted Email
  email
  Comments
• In praise of ZFS On Linux's ZED 'ZFS Event Daemon'
  practices
  Comments
• How and why I (attempt to) use Links as main browser
  browsers design web
  Comments
• What debugging technique did it take you entirely too long to learn?
  ask debugging
  Comments
• Resetting Passwords - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
  security
  Comments
• Identifying Unintended Harms of Cybersecurity Countermeasures (2019)
  pdf security
  Comments
• Intro To Type Theory
  video math programming
  Comments
• The rise and fall of Adobe Flash
  historical
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 21, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• dijo — scriptable, curses-based, digital event tracker
  show rust
  Comments
• Clear explanation of Rust’s module system
  rust
  Comments
• Three Architectures for a Responsive IDE
  compilers plt
  Comments
• How to self host your email server
  email
  Comments
• GnuTLS patches huge security hole that hung around for two years – worse than Heartbleed, says Google cryptoboffin
  crypto practices programming security
  Comments
• Clipboard injection on the Financial Times
  web
  Comments
• Why I no longer host my emails myself
  email
  Comments
• Eytzinger Binary Search
  compsci
  Comments
• Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All
  math rant
  Comments
• The Many Faces of an Undying Programming Language
  lisp
  Comments
• What it's like to code for Roblox
  games
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 20, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since bitcoin
  ai
  Comments
• Why is processing a sorted array faster than processing an unsorted array?
  assembly performance
  Comments
• Popol: Minimal non-blocking I/O with Rust
  rust
  Comments
• The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack
  historical
  Comments
• Why I don't mock (2014)
  testing
  Comments
• Mastering JQ: Part 1
  debugging programming
  Comments
• The Intel 8086 processor's registers: from chip to transistors
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Advanced Vim Workflows
  video vim
  Comments
• The Next Steps for Single Ownership and RAII
  plt
  Comments
• Gaining access to the Windows CE desktop (and Doom!) on the Keysight DSOX1102G Oscilloscope
  hardware
  Comments
• Emacs Redux: Instant Access to Your Shell Init Files
  emacs
  Comments
• Fixing Mass Effect black blobs on modern AMD CPUs
  debugging graphics
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 19, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Krita, OpenGL and Qt
  graphics
  Comments
• A Proposal for Proquints: Identifiers that are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable
  a11y programming
  Comments
• Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020
  networking practices
  Comments
• I'm back into the grind of FreeBSD's wireless stack and 802.11ac
  freebsd networking
  Comments
• Support Diary: the LAN of 16 Million Hosts
  networking
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Cloudflare outage and the risk in today's Internet
  web
  Comments
• What it was like learning programming in the early 1970s
  historical
  Comments
• Two linters I'll always add to new Go projects: errcheck and ineffassign
  go
  Comments
• Repurposing Obsolete FPGA-based Products as Development Kits
  video hardware
  Comments
• Compiling APL to JavaScript
  apl javascript
  Comments
• Shoelace, a forward-thinking library of web components
  web
  Comments