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

• Rust explained using easy English
  rust
  Comments
• Cross-compiling to Redox using Nix
  osdev rust
  Comments
• Why you shouldn’t write your content in Uppercase, instead use CSS
  a11y css
  Comments
• Ground Control to Major TOML: Why Buildpacks Use a Most Peculiar Format
  devops
  Comments
• Verified seL4 on secure RISC-V processors
  hardware osdev security
  Comments
• How Flash games shaped the video games industry
  historical
  Comments
• C's main() is one of the places where Unix's user and kernel APIs differ
  api c historical unix
  Comments
• Nuclei: Proactive IO & Runtime system
  rust
  Comments
• New features in gnuplot 5.4 [LWN.net]
  graphics math release
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• The SIEUFERD Project
  databases
  Comments
• You can install fonts with homebrew?
  mac
  Comments
• Cognitect Joins Nubank
  clojure
  Comments

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

• Go draft design proposal for file system interfaces and embedding files
  go
  Comments
• IPv4, IPv6, and a sudden change in attitude
  networking
  Comments
• Inside a Collaborative Text Editor
  compsci programming
  Comments
• Essays on programming I think about a lot
  programming
  Comments
• Replace PGP With an HTTPS Form
  crypto security
  Comments
• El Gantt – A Gantt chart/calendar for Orgmode
  emacs
  Comments
• Elo sucks — better multiplayer rating systems for smaller games
  games
  Comments
• Avoid character-by-character processing when performance matters
  c++
  Comments
• Leaving Google Analytics is Finally Plausible
  privacy web
  Comments
• Exploring Algol 68 in the 21st century
  historical plt
  Comments
• Svelte <3 TypeScript
  javascript release web
  Comments
• What are the benefits of using one mathematical notation over another?
  math
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 22, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel
  practices programming
  Comments
• Return and Enter Are Two Different Keys
  mac
  Comments
• What's New in Thunderbird 78
  email release
  Comments
• Can You Use FreeBSD for Developer Machine in 2020?
  freebsd
  Comments
• A Month-and-a-Half of Self-Hosted Email
  email
  Comments
• In praise of ZFS On Linux's ZED 'ZFS Event Daemon'
  practices
  Comments
• How and why I (attempt to) use Links as main browser
  browsers design web
  Comments
• What debugging technique did it take you entirely too long to learn?
  ask debugging
  Comments
• Resetting Passwords - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
  security
  Comments
• Identifying Unintended Harms of Cybersecurity Countermeasures (2019)
  pdf security
  Comments
• Intro To Type Theory
  video math programming
  Comments
• The rise and fall of Adobe Flash
  historical
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 21, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• dijo — scriptable, curses-based, digital event tracker
  show rust
  Comments
• Clear explanation of Rust’s module system
  rust
  Comments
• Three Architectures for a Responsive IDE
  compilers plt
  Comments
• How to self host your email server
  email
  Comments
• GnuTLS patches huge security hole that hung around for two years – worse than Heartbleed, says Google cryptoboffin
  crypto practices programming security
  Comments
• Clipboard injection on the Financial Times
  web
  Comments
• Why I no longer host my emails myself
  email
  Comments
• Eytzinger Binary Search
  compsci
  Comments
• Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All
  math rant
  Comments
• The Many Faces of an Undying Programming Language
  lisp
  Comments
• What it's like to code for Roblox
  games
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 20, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since bitcoin
  ai
  Comments
• Why is processing a sorted array faster than processing an unsorted array?
  assembly performance
  Comments
• Popol: Minimal non-blocking I/O with Rust
  rust
  Comments
• The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack
  historical
  Comments
• Why I don't mock (2014)
  testing
  Comments
• Mastering JQ: Part 1
  debugging programming
  Comments
• The Intel 8086 processor's registers: from chip to transistors
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Advanced Vim Workflows
  video vim
  Comments
• The Next Steps for Single Ownership and RAII
  plt
  Comments
• Gaining access to the Windows CE desktop (and Doom!) on the Keysight DSOX1102G Oscilloscope
  hardware
  Comments
• Emacs Redux: Instant Access to Your Shell Init Files
  emacs
  Comments
• Fixing Mass Effect black blobs on modern AMD CPUs
  debugging graphics
  Comments

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

• Krita, OpenGL and Qt
  graphics
  Comments
• A Proposal for Proquints: Identifiers that are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable
  a11y programming
  Comments
• Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020
  networking practices
  Comments
• I'm back into the grind of FreeBSD's wireless stack and 802.11ac
  freebsd networking
  Comments
• Support Diary: the LAN of 16 Million Hosts
  networking
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Cloudflare outage and the risk in today's Internet
  web
  Comments
• What it was like learning programming in the early 1970s
  historical
  Comments
• Two linters I'll always add to new Go projects: errcheck and ineffassign
  go
  Comments
• Repurposing Obsolete FPGA-based Products as Development Kits
  video hardware
  Comments
• Compiling APL to JavaScript
  apl javascript
  Comments
• Shoelace, a forward-thinking library of web components
  web
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 18, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Turning the IDE Inside Out with Datalog
  databases plt
  Comments
• Wikipedia's JavaScript initialisation on a budget
  javascript performance
  Comments
• Things I Wish I’d Known About CSS
  css
  Comments
• Repurposing FPGA-based Products as Development Kits
  pdf slides hardware
  Comments
• This is Fine: Optimism and Emergency in the P2P Network
  privacy security
  Comments
• import - a simple and fast module system for Bash and other Unix shells
  programming unix
  Comments
• How I Structure Go Packages
  go
  Comments
• PostgreSQL EXPLAIN glossary
  databases performance
  Comments
• Don’t Mock Types You Don’t Own
  testing
  Comments
• webgazer.js webcam eye tracking on the browser
  video a11y browsers javascript programming web
  Comments
• Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1997)
  pdf math
  Comments
• Context Coloring
  programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 17, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Two Beautiful Rust Programs
  c++ rust
  Comments
• Running Emacs with systemd
  emacs linux systemd
  Comments
• The Most Remarkable Legacy System I Have Seen
  python
  Comments
• Tech firms like Facebook must restrict data sent from EU to US, European court rules
  privacy security
  Comments
• Announcing Rust 1.45.0
  release rust
  Comments
• Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test
  ai
  Comments
• Videos of people editing text
  video programming
  Comments
• Why even unused data needs to be valid
  plt rust
  Comments
• Polyglot Documentation with Org-mode
  education emacs
  Comments
• Go's History in Code
  go historical programming
  Comments
• Monitoring Torrents On Your Server
  linux
  Comments
• How I Publish Notes
  web
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 16, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The evolution of a Scheme programmer
  lisp
  Comments
• SNES Doom Source (1995)
  assembly games release
  Comments
• The OS Classics
  osdev
  Comments
• A few thoughts about Signal’s Secure Value Recovery
  crypto mobile privacy security
  Comments
• The Fake Cisco
  hardware networking security
  Comments
• Decoding a JPEG Image using Python
  compsci python
  Comments
• Rewriting FORTRAN Software In Rust
  fortran performance rust
  Comments
• What the fuck is a closure?
  javascript
  Comments
• Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Apple, Uber, and others hacked in unprecedented Twitter attack
  security
  Comments
• OpenDiablo 2: Open source Diablo 2 engine, written in golang
  games go
  Comments
• How to Write Technical Posts (so people will read them)
  practices
  Comments
• PipeWire: The New Multimedia Service, Now Ready for Automotive
  video linux programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 15, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Tufte CSS
  css design
  Comments
• Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad
  devops rant
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• You've only added two lines - why did that take two days
  practices
  Comments
• Not recommending Purism
  hardware rant
  Comments
• Data Structures & Algorithms I Actually Used Working at Tech Companies
  practices
  Comments
• How to Run a Live Coding Stream on Twitch using OBS
  show education practices
  Comments
• Faster Integer Parsing
  performance rust
  Comments
• brismu: A relational interpretation of Lojban
  databases math philosophy
  Comments
• Too many objects: Reducing memory overhead from Python instances
  performance python
  Comments
• A conversation with Luke Hoban, co-founder of TypeScript, CTO of Pulumi
  devops javascript plt programming web
  Comments
• What has your experience with Kubernetes been like?
  ask devops
  Comments
• Protobuffers Are Wrong
  programming rant
  Comments