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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 2, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• New in Git: switch and restore
  vcs
  Comments
• Sorbet Compiler: An experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby
  ruby
  Comments
• Lang Jam
  plt
  Comments
• Announcing Axum
  rust
  Comments
• Amazon hit with record $885 million fine for violating EU privacy rules
  privacy
  Comments
• Learning that you can use unions in C for grouping things into namespaces
  c
  Comments
• Declarative GUIs in Racket
  video lisp
  Comments
• Why it’s okay for web components to use frameworks
  performance web
  Comments
• Rotten Apples: MacOS Codesigning Translocation Vulnerability
  mac security
  Comments
• How to write really slow Rust code
  performance rust
  Comments
• On C++ and Object Oriented Programming
  c++ practices programming
  Comments
• Focus: assign multiple engineers to the same task
  practices
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 1, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• 5000x faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
  distributed javascript performance rust
  Comments
• Running My Own Email Server
  email openbsd
  Comments
• ; echo "Shell Injection"
  security
  Comments
• strcpy: a niche function you don't need
  c
  Comments
• Strict memcpy() bounds checking for the kernel
  c linux
  Comments
• The Hardest Problem in Type Theory [Uniqueness of Identity Proofs]
  video math plt
  Comments
• 6 Years of Professional Clojure
  clojure programming
  Comments
• Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages
  databases web
  Comments
• Hasta la Vista Gmail
  email
  Comments
• Chronofold: a data structure for versioned text
  distributed performance vcs
  Comments
• Nodashka is a babashka-like tool for Node.js
  clojure javascript
  Comments
• Making Client Certificates Available By Default in Firefox 90
  browsers
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 31, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• 700,000 lines of code, 20 years, and one developer: How Dwarf Fortress is built
  games person
  Comments
• Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company's mission
  a11y browsers
  Comments
• The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs
  mac
  Comments
• From Stolen Laptop to Inside the Company Network
  security
  Comments
• Please send me examples of good OOP code
  programming
  Comments
• Canonicalization Attacks Against MACs and Signatures
  crypto security
  Comments
• Ian Hickson proposes a new vector format
  graphics web
  Comments
• Ruby 3.1's new debugger
  ruby
  Comments
• Path hints for B-trees can bring a performance increase of 150% - 300%
  compsci databases
  Comments
• Source for the Multics operating system
  historical osdev
  Comments
• Awesome Unstable Rust Features
  rust
  Comments
• Descriptorless files for io_uring
  linux
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 30, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• m4 - the one true templating language
  programming
  Comments
• NixOS on the Framework
  hardware linux
  Comments
• Zip - How not to design a file format
  programming
  Comments
• Evil tip: avoid "easy" things (2016)
  practices
  Comments
• The Baked Data architectural pattern
  databases web
  Comments
• A Tour of the Fuchsia Operating System
  video osdev
  Comments
• fromMaybe is Just a fold
  haskell
  Comments
• Safari isn’t protecting the web, it’s killing it
  browsers
  Comments
• Rust on GraalVM using bitcode
  compilers java rust
  Comments
• Memory Management in Lobster
  plt
  Comments
• Announcing Rust 1.54.0
  rust
  Comments
• Python behind the scenes #11: how the Python import system works
  python
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 29, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• passerine: A small extensible programming language designed for concise expression with little code
  plt
  Comments
• FreeDOS running Windows 3.1
  historical
  Comments
• Why you should build on Kubernetes from day one
  audio devops practices
  Comments
• Why Golang Is Bad for Smart Programmers
  go rant
  Comments
• Revisiting Prechelt’s paper and follow-ups comparing Java, Lisp, C/C++, Rust and scripting languages
  c++ java lisp performance rust
  Comments
• Striking new Beeping Busy Beaver champion
  compsci
  Comments
• Basic schema inference for arbitrary JavaScript data objects
  show javascript
  Comments
• Kubernetes Maximalism
  devops rant
  Comments
• How Far Can I Push a GenServer?
  elixir
  Comments
• P-CNC Plotter Disguised As a Quadruped Robot
  hardware
  Comments
• Let’s Talk OpenZFS Snapshots
  freebsd
  Comments
• EvilModel: Hiding Malware Inside of Neural Network Models
  ai security
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 28, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• OtterCast is an open-source audio streaming device running Linux
  hardware linux
  Comments
• Bridging a typed and an untyped world
  haskell plt
  Comments
• Collision Detection is Hard: The Story of Alf
  games historical
  Comments
• Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal
  mobile
  Comments
• Netcat - All you need to know
  networking
  Comments
• The Fall of the SKI Civilization
  math
  Comments
• Cleaning Up Git History
  vcs
  Comments
• iglunix: Linux (and other kernels) distro with no GNU components
  linux
  Comments
• Postgres Full-Text Search: A Search Engine in a Database
  databases
  Comments
• How many x86 instructions are there? (2016)
  assembly hardware
  Comments
• The Funhouse Mirror of Perl Criticism
  perl rant
  Comments
• Composable Data Validation with Haskell
  haskell
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 27, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Debian GNU/Linux running bare metal on the Apple M1 with a mainline kernel
  linux mac
  Comments
• Understanding Rust futures by going way too deep
  rust
  Comments
• What's bad about Julia?
  plt programming
  Comments
• You can't tell people anything
  historical practices
  Comments
• Haskell Social Fediverse Nodes
  culture haskell
  Comments
• Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion
  practices
  Comments
• How I Built a Cross-Platform Desktop Application with Svelte, Redis, and Rust
  programming web
  Comments
• The Haiku Project Celebrates the Release of Beta 3
  osdev release
  Comments
• Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
  c++ practices
  Comments
• From Laptop to Lambda: Outsourcing Everyday Jobs to Thousands of Transient Functional Containers
  devops
  Comments
• Scanning your iPhone for Pegasus, NSO Group's malware
  ios security
  Comments
• Finding Windows HANDLE leaks, in Chromium and others
  debugging windows
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 26, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy
  release zig
  Comments
• Decoded: OpenTTD
  c++ games
  Comments
• You don’t need React for building websites
  rant web
  Comments
• Types versus sets in math and programming languages
  compsci
  Comments
• Use Your SNES as a MIDI Synthesizer
  hardware
  Comments
• epilys/sic: link aggregator community organised by tags
  show python
  Comments
• CudaText: Cross-platform code editor
  programming
  Comments
• CSS: Avoid horizontal scrolling
  css rant web
  Comments
• Cloudflare's Handling of an RCE Vulnerability in cdnjs
  security
  Comments
• Heuristics for Effective Software Development: A continuously evolving list
  practices
  Comments
• patu is a ClojureScript game library built on Kaboom.js
  clojure games web
  Comments
• Entropy and Diversity: The Axiomatic Approach
  book math
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 25, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Debian bullseye release planned on 2021-08-14
  linux
  Comments
• K-9 Mail is back
  android email release
  Comments
• Use computers to store data
  historical
  Comments
• tylr
  plt
  Comments
• The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair
  a11y hardware law
  Comments
• Is GitHub Copilot a blessing, or a curse?
  ai programming
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report 2021 Q2
  freebsd
  Comments
• Microsoft Quietly Released Its Own Linux Distro
  linux
  Comments
• Software Engineering's Greatest Hits
  video education practices
  Comments
• Polaroids from the set of Hackers
  art culture
  Comments
• Inserting 130M SQLite Rows per Minute...from a Scripting Language
  databases ios mac
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 24, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Framework Laptop is now shipping
  hardware
  Comments
• PCEngines with SFP
  hardware networking
  Comments
• Classic Blog Posts by Joel Spolsky
  programming unix
  Comments
• usb-c cable colour codes
  design hardware
  Comments
• The State Of GGEZ 2021
  games philosophy rust
  Comments
• MyBee — FreeBSD OS and hypervisor bhyve as private cloud
  freebsd
  Comments
• Writing Parsers With nom Parser Combinator Framework
  compilers rust
  Comments
• Write signatures, not schemas
  plt
  Comments
• Beating the L1 cache with value speculation
  performance
  Comments
• GitHub brings supply chain security features to the Go community
  go
  Comments
• CGuard: Efficient Spatial Safety for C
  pdf security
  Comments
• Gittea Grant application for the implementation of federation
  go vcs web
  Comments