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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 1, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Featherweight Go
  go plt
  Comments
• Measuring keyboard-to-photon latency with a light sensor
  hardware
  Comments
• Pinebook Pro, First Impressions
  hardware
  Comments
• Zero-day in Sign in with Apple
  ios mac security
  Comments
• Using Fennel to configure Hammerspon
  lisp lua
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• The Definitive Glossary of Higher Mathematical Jargon
  math
  Comments
• How fast is Redis?
  databases
  Comments
• Why does Windows keep your BIOS clock on local time? (2004)
  windows
  Comments
• Introduction to Program Synthesis
  education plt
  Comments
• The Halloween Documents (1998)
  historical practices
  Comments
• Four years of OCaml in production (2015)
  ml
  Comments

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

• But no, 80-column terminals in 2020 isn't “reasonable” any more
  practices
  Comments
• Rust: Dropping heavy things in another thread can make your code 10000 times faster
  rust
  Comments
• A Review of Perl 6 (Raku) (2017)
  perl
  Comments
• Coverage Marks
  rust testing
  Comments
• Promnesia: a journey in fixing browser history
  show browsers web
  Comments
• The tiniest C sort function?
  c
  Comments
• Interactive Lua development with Fennel (2018)
  lisp lua
  Comments
• Main Linux problems on the desktop (2020 edition)
  linux
  Comments
• Fixing a long-standing bug in satellite-based nuclear weapon detectors
  debugging math
  Comments
• Reproducible builds progress report #3
  linux osdev
  Comments
• Setting the amdgpu HDMI Pixel Format on Linux
  linux
  Comments
• The radix 2^51 trick
  assembly math performance
  Comments

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

• Why does OpenBSD still include Perl in its base installation?
  openbsd perl
  Comments
• Linux Sucks 2020
  video linux
  Comments
• Fossil: A distributed VCS with Wiki, Issue tracker and Web Interface built in
  vcs
  Comments
• Ideology
  video plt
  Comments
• Basic.css - Classless CSS Starter File
  css
  Comments
• OpenBSD 6.7 and ffs2 FAQs
  openbsd
  Comments
• ECMAScript 4: The missing version
  browsers javascript
  Comments
• TuxURLs – A neat Linux news aggregator
  show linux
  Comments
• PowerPC Solaris on the RS/6000
  historical unix
  Comments
• You can't tie your shoes while running
  programming
  Comments
• htmx - high power tools for html
  web
  Comments
• Hypermodern Python
  python
  Comments

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

• The Day AppGet Died
  windows
  Comments
• The “OO” Antipattern
  programming
  Comments
• Using Emacs and mu4e for emails - even with HTML
  emacs email
  Comments
• What science can tell us about C and C++'s security
  c c++ security
  Comments
• Nix Flakes, Part 1: An introduction and tutorial
  programming
  Comments
• Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2020
  mobile web
  Comments
• New fuzzing tool finds 26 USB bugs in Linux, Windows, macOS, and FreeBSD
  security testing
  Comments
• mu4e: emacs-based e-mail client which uses mu as its back-end
  emacs email
  Comments
• Fortran Programming Language
  fortran
  Comments
• Template metaprogramming trick: Get the compiler to tell you what type you have
  c++ debugging
  Comments
• Toying with gemini
  lisp web
  Comments
• How to not consent to cookies
  satire web
  Comments

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

• Soldat goes open source
  games release
  Comments
• Stop Blogging on Medium if You Care about SEO
  practices web
  Comments
• A tiny language called Z
  lisp
  Comments
• OpenSSH 8.3 released
  release security
  Comments
• Compiling Rust binaries for Windows 98 SE and more: a journey
  rust windows
  Comments
• Where Did Software Go Wrong?
  philosophy practices
  Comments
• CLIs are reified UIs
  design
  Comments
• Achieving accessibility through simplicity
  programming
  Comments
• Dat project renamed Hypercore, CLI looking for new maintainer
  distributed
  Comments
• Faster Integer Parsing
  c++ performance
  Comments
• VimWiki 2.5: Personal Wiki for Vim
  release vim
  Comments
• bad motherboards: how to recognise and avoid them
  hardware historical
  Comments

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

• Which Atom/RSS reader do you use?
  ask web
  Comments
• Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective
  javascript nodejs
  Comments
• I won't buy ebooks anymore
  rant
  Comments
• Flipper Zero — Multi-tool Device for Hackers
  hardware
  Comments
• Why is Idris 2 so much faster than Idris 1?
  lisp performance
  Comments
• The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code (2000)
  historical practices
  Comments
• Help, I can’t learn or do something because it is boring
  practices
  Comments
• LambdaNative: Build mobile and embedded apps in Scheme
  lisp mobile
  Comments
• Reading Research: A Guide for Software Engineers
  practices
  Comments
• What do you do to 'get back into the groove' after a weekend away from work?
  ask practices programming
  Comments
• RuboCop Defaults Survey Results
  ruby
  Comments
• Mastodon: Add end-to-end encryption API
  api crypto ruby
  Comments

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

• Idris 2 version 0.2.0 Released
  compilers release
  Comments
• I had to jailbreak my iPhone to change the default browser
  ios security
  Comments
• NetSurf Web Browser 3.10 released
  browsers release
  Comments
• WiFi Over Coax (2006)
  hardware
  Comments
• Ventoy: Multi-ISO bootable USBs
  linux windows
  Comments
• Welcome to C# 9.0
  dotnet
  Comments
• The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0, for reference purposes
  historical
  Comments
• im not a programmer
  culture programming
  Comments
• Introducing GoboLinux 017
  linux osdev release
  Comments
• dbanay/Smalltalk - “by the blue book” c++ implementation of Smalltalk-80
  c++ virtualization
  Comments
• Org Mode - Organize Your Life In Plain Text
  emacs practices
  Comments
• Latency in Asynchronous Python
  debugging python
  Comments

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

• Neut - A dependently-typed programming language with static memory management
  compilers lisp
  Comments
• Fast navigation in terminal: coming full circle
  practices
  Comments
• Memory safety
  c c++ security
  Comments
• Rust's Runtime
  rust
  Comments
• How you can help keep blogging alive and thriving
  web
  Comments
• I want to own the database that my apps use
  databases
  Comments
• Sxmo: Simple X Mobile - A Pinephone UI that is simple and suckless
  mobile unix
  Comments
• Solving the "Miracle Sudoku" in Prolog
  programming
  Comments
• Better plumbing in Xorg with plan9port's plumber
  linux unix
  Comments
• cwida/duckdb
  databases
  Comments
• Into the Tar Pit
  programming
  Comments
• Lessons from Space: Edge Free Programming
  practices programming
  Comments

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

• Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions
  rust
  Comments
• gourami: An intentionally small, lightweight ActivityPub microblogging service
  web
  Comments
• Wacom drawing tablets are spying on every app you open, and sending the data back to Wacom
  hardware privacy
  Comments
• 9pi update, Raspberry Pi 4, and go
  go hardware osdev release
  Comments
• Why Zig When There is Already CPP, D, and Rust?
  programming
  Comments
• Make your website look like a LaTeX document
  web
  Comments
• stapelberg uses this: my 2020 desk setup
  show practices
  Comments
• Where did "main" come from?
  c historical
  Comments
• maybedoer: the Maybe Monoid for Go
  go
  Comments
• Let’s settle the password vs. passphrase debate (2019)
  security
  Comments
• thoughts: a portable, POSIXy pal for putting your thoughts on the internet
  release unix web
  Comments
• rtr7/router7 - pure-Go small home internet router
  go networking
  Comments

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

• Some Were Meant for C
  pdf c plt
  Comments
• Why NetNewsWire Is Fast
  performance swift
  Comments
• Should I Block Ads?
  show security web
  Comments
• Microsoft Open-Sources GW-BASIC
  historical release
  Comments
• Some zshrc tricks
  unix
  Comments
• XP.css
  css
  Comments
• Waiting in asyncio
  python
  Comments
• Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in git, with bridges
  distributed vcs
  Comments
• My new FreeBSD Laptop: Dell Latitude 7390
  freebsd
  Comments
• One-pass Compiler Primer
  compilers programming
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• logfmt — a structure log format
  devops practices
  Comments