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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 31, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Git email flow vs Github flow
  email practices vcs
  Comments
• C Template Library
  c
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• Futureproof: a live editor for GPU shaders
  graphics zig
  Comments
• Linux Hardening Guide
  linux security
  Comments
• eyeblea.ch, the Melbourne home of the Gopher and IRC revival
  show freebsd perl
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• How we compress Pub/Sub messages and more, saving a load of money
  scaling
  Comments
• Colin S. Gordon reading list
  book compsci math
  Comments
• Have historical changes in development practices / tooling degraded the quality of programmers?
  ask historical practices
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• ACE: Apple Type-C Port Controller Secrets
  hardware reversing
  Comments
• The Museum of HP Calculators
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Unsafe string interning in Go
  go
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• Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly! pt.3 - Arithmetic and Logic
  assembly programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 30, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• node.example.com Is An IP Address
  python
  Comments
• Why the iPhone Timer App displays a Fake Time
  design ios javascript
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• Against essential and accidental complexity
  programming
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• Haskell doesn't have macros
  haskell lisp
  Comments
• Game Boy's long lost WorkBoy accessory
  games hardware
  Comments
• PicoLisp on PicoLisp on LLVM-IR
  lisp
  Comments
• Advent of Ruby 3.0
  ruby
  Comments
• A little puzzle with printf() and C argument passing
  c
  Comments
• sysctl parameter kern.video.record added to -current
  openbsd
  Comments
• How to use Lua for flexible configurations in Erlang and Elixir
  elixir erlang lua
  Comments
• Testing 2.5 Gbps Ethernet on the Raspberry Pi CM4
  hardware
  Comments
• Hexagonal Grids
  graphics programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 29, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Cosmopolitan C Library
  assembly c compilers
  Comments
• Why doesn’t Lobsters have a dark mode?
  meta
  Comments
• Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?
  ai
  Comments
• YouTube channel doing first impression reviews of amateur operating systems
  video osdev
  Comments
• Waiting for jobs, and the concept of the shell
  historical unix
  Comments
• CIDER 1.0
  clojure emacs
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• The hyperbezier pen tool
  graphics
  Comments
• Small CI written in 1k lines of Haskell
  devops haskell
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• Learnings from Solving Advent of Code 2020 in Haskell
  haskell
  Comments
• When seekdir() Won’t Seek to the Right Position
  unix
  Comments
• Standards on Arm platforms for OS support
  hardware
  Comments

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

• Kubernetes is a container orchestration system, but *that's not the point*
  devops
  Comments
• Fun with IP address parsing
  networking
  Comments
• rC3 Streaming (remote CCC event live streaming)
  video event
  Comments
• Stork Turns One: Building a search tool for static sites with Rust and WebAssembly
  show release rust wasm
  Comments
• Bash HTTP monitoring dashboard
  linux web
  Comments
• nostr - Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays
  programming web
  Comments
• Nintendo 64 Linux kernel port
  games linux
  Comments
• A Vim Guide for Intermediate Users
  vim
  Comments
• Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes
  devops
  Comments
• Cemetery of Soviet computers
  compsci hardware historical
  Comments
• At least one Vim trick you might not know
  vim
  Comments
• Flatbuffers in Unity - a 40x gain
  api dotnet games performance
  Comments

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

• Fraidycat
  web
  Comments
• Abusing my computer science knowledge to cheat at Catan
  games
  Comments
• WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app
  mac rant
  Comments
• Emacs is the 2D Command-line Interface
  emacs
  Comments
• Executable PNGs
  linux programming rust
  Comments
• simple-graph: a graph database in SQLite, inspired by "SQLite as a document database"
  show databases programming python
  Comments
• The Genius of RISC-V Microprocessors
  assembly compsci hardware
  Comments
• How to design a new programming language from scratch
  plt practices
  Comments
• The Matrix Holiday Special 2020
  distributed
  Comments
• Dev-C++ Is A Low Memory Windows Native C++ IDE Built In Delphi
  c++ windows
  Comments
• Automatic Language Bindings
  compilers
  Comments
• EndBASIC 0.4 release announcement
  programming release
  Comments

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

• Ruby 3.0.0 Released
  release ruby
  Comments
• The aftermath of "No, 'Open Source' does not mean 'Includes Free Support'"
  law
  Comments
• Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
  science
  Comments
• How We Saved .ORG: 2020 in Review
  web
  Comments
• The Parity Of Zero
  math
  Comments
• The Flix Programming Language
  plt
  Comments
• Redox OS 0.6.0
  osdev release
  Comments
• Fictional Videogame Stills (1992)
  art games historical
  Comments
• Monad Transformers and Effects with Backpack
  haskell
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Scott Hanselman's 2021 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
  windows
  Comments
• A Complete Guide to LLVM for Programming Language Creators
  compilers
  Comments

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

• Happy holidays, Crustaceans
  meta
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• I wired my tree with 500 LED lights and calculated their 3D coordinates
  video hardware visualization
  Comments
• Announcing NeoChat 1.0, the KDE Matrix client
  distributed release
  Comments
• Jepsen: Scylla 4.2-rc3
  databases distributed testing
  Comments
• Cryptographic Wear-Out for Symmetric Encryption
  crypto math
  Comments
• Undocumented user account in Zyxel products (CVE-2020-29583)
  security
  Comments
• Achieving partial translucency on the Game Boy Color
  games historical
  Comments
• Unboxing the best gift of 1983: the Commodore SX-64
  historical
  Comments
• Yuzu (OSS Switch Emulator) Progress Report November 2020
  compsci hardware
  Comments
• htmx - high power tools for html
  web
  Comments
• Three Great Videos About Regex Derivatives
  compilers compsci plt
  Comments
• A perceptual color space for image processing
  graphics
  Comments

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

• We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow
  performance web
  Comments
• Announcing Tokio 1.0
  release rust
  Comments
• The beautiful Silent ThunderBolt-3 PC
  hardware
  Comments
• Xfce 4.16 released
  release
  Comments
• My e-mail honeypots
  email
  Comments
• SixtyFPS: a fresh new toolkit for graphical user interfaces
  graphics
  Comments
• The Dependency Jungle
  go
  Comments
• Deploying Gitea on NixOS (Git self-hosting)
  linux vcs
  Comments
• The Beautiful Machine
  hardware
  Comments
• How & Why To Use Airgapped Backups
  practices
  Comments
• Build a Tiny Certificate Authority For Your Homelab
  hardware privacy security
  Comments
• PC DOS Reimagined
  compsci historical osdev
  Comments

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

• Why can’t you buy a good webcam?
  hardware
  Comments
• Unicomp New Model M Keyboard
  hardware
  Comments
• Hotwire - HTML Over The Wire
  web
  Comments
• Why broot is switching from TOML to Hjson for its configuration files
  programming
  Comments
• Haiku activity report - November and December 2020
  osdev
  Comments
• How do you index code in your projects?
  ask vim
  Comments
• Problems with building backend app in Rust in 2020
  rust web
  Comments
• Double Blind Passwords (aka Horcruxing)
  privacy security
  Comments
• What’s the point of pointfree programming?
  programming
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• This community is available in the app
  a11y web
  Comments
• Coding as a tool of thought
  formalmethods practices
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• The Delegation Challenge of Ruby 2.7
  ruby
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 22, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How and why I stopped buying new laptops
  hardware linux
  Comments
• What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? (2014)
  databases programming
  Comments
• Commits are snapshots, not diffs
  vcs
  Comments
• More challenging projects every programmer should try
  programming
  Comments
• A Visual Browser History, from Netscape 4 to Mozilla Firefox
  browsers historical
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Cross-Branch Testing
  testing vcs
  Comments
• My Engineering Axioms
  programming
  Comments
• Building My Own Chess Engine
  programming python
  Comments
• Vocdoni universally verifiable voting system process ~18M votes in 11 hours
  crypto go performance
  Comments
• YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Used to Upload 'Pirate' Movies & File DMCA Notices
  law privacy
  Comments
• Mercurial, Behind the scenes
  vcs
  Comments