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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 9, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Favorite interactive web apps without a backend?
  ask web
  Comments
• These artists are making tiny ROMs that will probably outlive us all
  art assembly
  Comments
• The most important thing to understand about queues (2016)
  scaling
  Comments
• All desktop calculators are wrong, so I had to build my own
  compsci
  Comments
• A Deep dive into Ed25519 Signatures
  cryptography
  Comments
• systemd by example - Part 3: Defining services
  systemd
  Comments
• Stop Saying PHP Is Dead (2020)
  php plt
  Comments
• Still No Consensus On Testing Private Methods
  testing
  Comments
• Review: Software Design for Flexibility
  practices
  Comments
• Haiku Activity & Contract Report: February 2022
  osdev
  Comments
• PipeWire: A year in review & a look ahead
  linux
  Comments
• Benchee 1.1.0 released + why did it take so long
  elixir
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 8, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Dirty Pipe Vulnerability
  linux security
  Comments
• I Can No Longer Compile My First Flash Game
  historical programming
  Comments
• Discovering I've Shot Myself in the Foot with std::async
  c++
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Compressing and embedding a Wordle word list
  programming
  Comments
• Fixing APL’s trigonometric notation
  apl
  Comments
• Postmortem: Freeverse's Marathon 2: Durandal for XBLA (2007)
  games historical
  Comments
• Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent on 2M records
  browsers wasm web
  Comments
• Power Monitoring Setup (IoTaWatt + Grafana)
  hardware
  Comments
• Stop guessing, use data! (Or how we estimate at Lunar Logic)
  practices
  Comments
• What if? driven development
  programming
  Comments
• CMOC - 6809 cross-compiler for a C-like language
  compilers
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 7, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Editing stuff in prod
  practices
  Comments
• Why I invented “dash encoding”, a new encoding scheme for URL paths
  python web
  Comments
• Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA
  privacy
  Comments
• How did you learn AWS?
  ask devops
  Comments
• Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (1998)
  historical osdev windows
  Comments
• Alfis: Alternative Free Identity System
  merkle-trees networking rust
  Comments
• Kensington Microware's System Saver
  historical
  Comments
• Untangling mechanized proofs
  formalmethods
  Comments
• Which browsers are best for privacy?
  browsers privacy
  Comments
• ReScript on Deno: Declarative Command Line Tools
  javascript
  Comments
• Web-dev advice for building a localhost app w/o a steep learning curve?
  ask web
  Comments
• CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database
  databases distributed
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 6, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Configuring default applications for xdg-open
  linux
  Comments
• The perils of the “real” client IP
  security web
  Comments
• Using files with browsers, in reality
  browsers web
  Comments
• Scoring an animation using Orca
  art programming
  Comments
• Optics vs Lenses, Operationally
  math
  Comments
• An open-source, motorized microscope built using LEGO bricks, Arduino, RPi and 3D printing
  hardware
  Comments
• Dynamic Tracing with DTrace and SystemTap
  performance
  Comments
• Advanced Editing on UNIX
  pdf unix
  Comments
• Introducing Native Matrix VoIP with Element Call
  networking
  Comments
• History of non-standard-layout class layouts
  c++
  Comments
• Manipulate parentheses and sexps in Doom Emacs
  clojure emacs lisp
  Comments
• Display information about HTTP status codes
  web
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 5, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Just managed to log into Lobsters from SerenityOS
  browsers osdev
  Comments
• XKCD 2585 Implemented: Round the world
  databases math
  Comments
• blamscamp: Create a bandcamp-style audio player for selling albums on itch.io
  release
  Comments
• Go: A Documentary
  go historical
  Comments
• Berkeley Mono
  programming
  Comments
• A Lodash-style Go library based on Go 1.18+ Generics (map, filter, contains, find...)
  go
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Emulating Vintage Mac Compilers
  mac
  Comments
• Getting an RX 6700 XT to work for Gaming on Linux
  hardware linux
  Comments
• Windows Package Manager 1.2
  release windows
  Comments
• Data Mesh Architecture
  databases distributed scaling
  Comments
• Qt 5.15.3 Opensource released
  c++ release
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 4, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What’s your favorite vim shortcut/hack
  ask vim
  Comments
• SPAs were a mistake
  web
  Comments
• My New Old Apple Macintosh SE/30 Computer
  historical
  Comments
• Google Slides is Actually Hilarious
  design rant
  Comments
• Speeding up Go's builtin JSON encoder up to 55% for large arrays of objects
  go performance
  Comments
• Exposure Fusion – local tonemapping for real-time rendering
  graphics
  Comments
• Building data-centric apps with a reactive relational database
  compsci databases plt
  Comments
• On overwriting disks (on OpenBSD 7.0-current)
  openbsd
  Comments
• Integrate Org mode Agenda into other calendar apps
  emacs mobile
  Comments
• Franklin's ACE 1000
  historical
  Comments
• Avoiding Source Code Spoofing
  practices security
  Comments
• 3 interesting behaviors of C++ casts
  c++
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 3, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How Does Perspective Work in Pictures?
  graphics
  Comments
• rui: Experimental Rust UI library, based on SwiftUI
  design graphics rust
  Comments
• NixOS Community Survey 2022
  nix
  Comments
• Portable Linux gaming with the Steam Deck
  linux
  Comments
• Small statistics page showcase done via sh, awk, log parsing and cron
  unix web
  Comments
• A selection of formal proofs in Coq
  math
  Comments
• Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different (2013)
  a11y design web
  Comments
• Schwarzgerät III - 32 overclocked cores, 252TB spinning disk, and a Geiger counter
  show hardware
  Comments
• GitHub - poonai/inspektor: Centralized access control for your databases
  go rust security
  Comments
• Reproducing Go binaries byte-by-byte
  go security
  Comments
• Miniboss, versatile local container management with Python
  python
  Comments
• A society tag?
  meta
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 2, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• ZigSelf: An implementation of Self in Zig
  programming zig
  Comments
• What are good domain name registrars?
  ask networking
  Comments
• Plasma 5.24 is fantastic
  linux
  Comments
• Who’s lying?
  devops
  Comments
• Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (2019)
  art practices rant
  Comments
• A new year, a new MDN
  release web
  Comments
• Announcing TypeScript 4.6
  javascript release
  Comments
• holy-shoot: A shoot 'em up game for TempleOS written in HolyC
  c osdev
  Comments
• When Command-V (or CTRL-V) is your "copilot"
  law
  Comments
• Dictionary Compression
  performance
  Comments
• Is Golang's Grammar Context Free?
  go
  Comments
• Security for package maintainers
  security
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 1, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Lambda Calculus in 400 Bytes
  compsci plt
  Comments
• Make Linux look like MacOS 9
  linux
  Comments
• EU plans to mandate less secure certificates in browsers
  cryptography security
  Comments
• Understanding higher-kinded types
  plt
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Predicting developments in real world conflict from patterns of failed logins
  security
  Comments
• Tail recursion, but modulo cons
  elm performance
  Comments
• Can comments "disappear" from lobste.rs?
  meta
  Comments
• Paredit Slurp and Barf Mnemonics
  emacs
  Comments
• Database functions to wrap logic and SQL queries
  databases
  Comments
• Derw, a useful ML-like language for the web, status: Feburary 2022
  elm ml
  Comments
• PureScript Annual Survey 2022
  ask elm haskell javascript ml
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 28, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Internet Was Designed With a Narrow Waist
  programming scaling unix
  Comments
• Prig: like AWK, but uses Go for "scripting"
  go
  Comments
• Writing UTF-8 Programs in Plan 9
  c programming
  Comments
• OrioleDB: building a modern cloud-native storage engine
  databases
  Comments
• JSON improvements in SQLite 3.38.0
  databases
  Comments
• Win32 is the stable Linux userland ABI (and the consequences)
  linux practices windows
  Comments
• Exploring content of X.509 certificates
  security unix
  Comments
• $60 PC Oscilloscope Review
  hardware
  Comments
• How to make small tweaks to free software
  c linux practices
  Comments
• Nix Flakes: Packages and How to Use Them
  nix
  Comments
• C++ header files and inter-class connections
  c++
  Comments
• Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? (2019)
  historical windows
  Comments