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

• The Fennel programming language: rationale
  lisp lua
  Comments
• Why Johnny Won't Upgrade
  programming rant
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• Why are true and false so large?
  unix
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• Wan!~
  art
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• Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches
  ai
  Comments
• Introducing a new Firefox for Android experience
  android browsers release
  Comments
• Computer Scientists Attempt to Corner the Collatz Conjecture
  compsci math
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• What would be the best way to transform money into OSS tool bug fixes?
  ask programming
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• One year of Nushell
  programming
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• Fuzzing in Go
  go testing
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• Vim-like Layer for Xorg and Wayland
  linux vim
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• Squeak Smalltalk on a PostmarketOS cellphone
  mobile programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 26, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• rc.d belongs in libexec, not etc
  unix
  Comments
• EmacsConf 2020 Call for Proposals
  emacs event
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• Don't marry your design after the first date
  programming
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• Draft of OCaml Scientific Computing book
  book math ml
  Comments
• What RSS Feeds do you subscribe to?
  ask programming
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• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Kindle Collects a Surprisingly Large Amount of Data
  privacy
  Comments
• ~nbuwe/forth - A very simple Forth
  plt
  Comments
• Upgrading GitHub to Ruby 2.7
  ruby
  Comments
• Firefox 80 Released with Optional GPU Acceleration on Linux
  browsers linux release
  Comments
• Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run?
  practices
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• The great Rubykon Benchmark 2020: CRuby vs JRuby vs TruffleRuby
  performance ruby
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 25, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What software do you dream about, but do not have time to do yourself?
  ask programming
  Comments
• αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε
  freebsd linux mac openbsd windows
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• Javascript Generators, Meet XPath
  javascript web
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• How I helped fix Canadaʼs COVID Alert app
  show programming security
  Comments
• A tale of webpage speed, or throwing away React
  javascript
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• Going Full Static with Zola
  rust web
  Comments
• Btrfs Coming to Fedora 33
  linux
  Comments
• Pango 1.44 and the removal of support for bitmap fonts (2019)
  programming
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• Good Commit Messages
  practices vcs
  Comments
• Build your own FPGA (2012)
  hardware
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• Never Run ‘python’ In Your Downloads Folder
  python security
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• Cryptography Dispatches: Registries Considered Harmful
  crypto
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 21, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Can't you just right click?
  mac
  Comments
• How to contact Google SRE: Dropping a shell in cloud SQL
  security
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• First thoughts on Rust vs OCaml
  ml rust
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• Ignoring mass reformatting commits with git blame
  vcs
  Comments
• The Documentation System
  education practices
  Comments
• Did breaking backwards compatibility kill Drupal?
  practices
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• A Case against Wayland (2011)
  graphics linux rant
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• Architecture decision record (ADR) examples
  practices scaling
  Comments
• Automatically Generated Posters of Chess Games
  show nodejs
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• Turn shell commands into APIs
  api unix
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• Announcing TypeScript 4.0
  javascript release
  Comments
• The NeWS Book - An Introduction to the Network/Extensible Window System
  pdf book graphics historical
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 20, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Implementing 'focus and reply' for Fastmail with JMAP
  email
  Comments
• The Case of the Top Secret iPod
  historical
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• Switching From i3 to Sway on Ubuntu 20.04
  linux
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• Reverse Engineering GTA V's Stunt Jump System
  games programming
  Comments
• A Dictionary of APL
  pdf apl
  Comments
• Oil Language Idioms (draft)
  programming unix
  Comments
• Everything Old is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly
  browsers programming security wasm web
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• Porting a Golang and Rust CLI tool to D
  d
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• Graphics Programming Projects
  education graphics
  Comments
• Rebuilding Racket on Chez Scheme Experience Report (2019)
  video lisp
  Comments
• A new location database for the Internet
  api databases release
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• The New Scalable ETS ordered_set
  databases erlang
  Comments

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

• Laying the foundation for Rust's future
  rust
  Comments
• Nintendo DS Architecture
  hardware
  Comments
• POWER10 sounds really great, but
  hardware
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• Micro-Optimizing .tar.gz Archives by Changing File Order
  performance programming
  Comments
• Searching code with Sourcegraph
  go
  Comments
• Haskell mini-patterns handbook
  haskell
  Comments
• Existential types in Rust
  plt rust
  Comments
• Don’t try to change the tabbing / bracing style
  practices
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• Healthy breathing with a smart bulb
  show programming
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• IBM Z15 Mainframe Processor Design
  hardware
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• The Ultimate Game Boy Talk
  video hardware historical
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 18, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Style Stage: A New CSS Zen Garden
  css design
  Comments
• comparative unsafety
  go rust
  Comments
• Http.rb is Great (2018)
  ruby
  Comments
• Using a Yubikey as a touchless, magic unlock key for Linux
  linux
  Comments
• Configuration files and .d directories
  linux practices
  Comments
• How Purism avoids Intel's Active Management Technology
  hardware
  Comments
• A 35-year-old bug in patch found in efforts to restore 29 year old 2.11BSD
  historical
  Comments
• I wrote the world's worst text editor (so you don't have to)
  c
  Comments
• Technology in Intimate Partner Violence Bibliography
  privacy security
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• LibreSSL documentation status update
  openbsd
  Comments
• Handmade Hero
  games performance
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• TruffleSqueak: Polyglot Programming with Squeak/Smalltalk and GraalVM
  java javascript programming python ruby
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 17, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The BEAM Has Spoiled Me
  distributed elixir erlang
  Comments
• Idris 2 version 0.2.1 Released
  plt release
  Comments
• The Mutt E-Mail Client celebrates 25 years
  email
  Comments
• Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You
  api practices programming rant
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• Hello "Hello world!"
  assembly c programming
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• Python 3.8 Makes me Sad Again
  python rant
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• Write your Own Virtual Machine
  programming
  Comments
• What I’ve learned about scaling OSPF in Datacenters
  networking
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• A Review of Paul Graham's Bel, Chris Granger's Eve, and a Silly VR Rant
  lisp plt programming
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• Hiding messages in x86 binaries using semantic duals
  assembly rust security
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• Parse, don't validate — Elixir edition, Part Two
  elixir practices
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• Where is your notebook?
  practices programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 16, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Taking my home work setup seriously: ergonomics and settling in for the long haul
  hardware
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• An Introduction to OpenBSD
  openbsd
  Comments
• Types as axioms, or: playing god with static types (2020)
  haskell plt programming
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• Don't design for mobile
  design mobile
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• Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995)
  pdf distributed osdev
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• Split files into encrypted segments
  security
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• HardenedBSD August 2020 Status Report and Call for Donations
  freebsd
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• Using an old BlackBerry as a portable SSH (or Telnet) terminal
  hardware
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• Vale is a linter for prose
  ai practices
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• xi-editor
  rust swift
  Comments
• JavaScript for impatient programmers (ES2020 edition)
  javascript
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• Yatta Language - ML like language on the GraalVM
  compilers java ml plt
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 15, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• In search of the perfect pocket device
  android linux mobile ruby vim
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• I am a Java, C#, C or C++ developer, time to do some Rust
  rust
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• Frustrated? It's not you, it's Rust
  rust
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• What's new in PHP 8
  php programming release
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• Open Standards Are Simple
  programming
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• Canarytokens: Token Anything, Anywhere
  security
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• NSA discloses new Russian-made Drovorub malware targeting Linux
  linux security
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• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• libvips: fast image processing library with low memory needs
  graphics programming
  Comments
• Sinter: New user-mode security enforcement for macOS
  mac security
  Comments
• "Structural pattern matching" for Python, part 1
  python
  Comments
• J Notation as a Tool of Thought
  apl
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