The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out
  

  performance programming vcs
  

  Comments
• Gleam v1.14 - the happy holidays release 2025
  

  gleam
  

  Comments
• Ruby 4.0.0 Released
  

  ruby
  

  Comments
• ssh tiny.christmas
  

  art
  

  Comments
• Newtype Index Pattern In Zig
  

  zig
  

  Comments
• phoenix - A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
  

  graphics
  

  Comments
• cjanet
  

  c lisp
  

  Comments
• The HTML Elements Time Forgot
  

  historical web
  

  Comments
• (My) Second Year of the Linux Desktop (For Gaming)
  

  games linux
  

  Comments
• Avoid mini-frameworks
  

  programming
  

  Comments
• Mathematically extra-complicated Secretest Santa 2025
  

  video cryptography distributed math
  

  Comments
• Wayback 0.3 Released
  

  linux release
  

  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 25, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Your favorite pieces of technical writing?
  

  ask meta
  

  Comments
• I'm returning my Framework 16
  

  hardware
  

  Comments
• They made me an offer I couldn't refuse (1997)
  

  historical mac
  

  Comments
• cpu: cpu command in Go, inspired by the Plan 9 cpu command
  

  go osdev
  

  Comments
• An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape
  

  retrocomputing unix
  

  Comments
• folder.zone: Share end-to-end encrypted folders live
  

  show cryptography web
  

  Comments
• Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode
  

  c unix
  

  Comments
• dirlock
  

  linux
  

  Comments
• Reproducing the NixOS 25.11 Minimal Installation ISO
  

  nix
  

  Comments
• Vigil - A clean, fast build watcher for Zig (inspired by Bacon for Rust)
  

  show zig
  

  Comments
• The wonder of MSBuild
  

  dotnet
  

  Comments
• How and why I moved from Apple Services to my own server
  

  linux
  

  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 24, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The lightest notes app implementation in 111 loc
  

  show web
  

  Comments
• I foretold that Mac app notarization is security theater
  

  mac security
  

  Comments
• What's "new" in Miri (and also, there's a Miri paper!)
  

  rust
  

  Comments
• mquickjs: Micro QuickJS Javascript Engine
  

  javascript
  

  Comments
• FreeBSD Closes the Laptop Gap: Year One Project Update
  

  freebsd
  

  Comments
• Email Simplicity vs Decentralized Chat
  

  ask email networking
  

  Comments
• Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18
  

  databases osdev
  

  Comments
• From Zero to QED: An informal introduction to formality in Lean 4
  

  compsci formalmethods
  

  Comments
• The Linux kernel is just a program
  

  go linux
  

  Comments
• Are we Loong yet?
  

  hardware
  

  Comments
• Introducing Open Forms
  

  release
  

  Comments
• Proposed Rust kernel extensions in place of eBPF
  

  linux rust
  

  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Thirteen years of Rust and the birth of Rue
  

  plt vibecoding
  

  Comments
• I’m a former CTO. Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out 50% of unqualified applicants
  

  practices
  

  Comments
• Debian’s git transition
  

  linux vcs
  

  Comments
• I Program on the Subway
  

  programming
  

  Comments
• Logging Sucks - Your Logs Are Lying To You
  

  debugging
  

  Comments
• What’s new in Python 3.15
  

  python
  

  Comments
• Lua 5.5 Released
  

  lua release
  

  Comments
• ELF Crimes: Program Interpreter Fun
  

  programming
  

  Comments
• Exploring Speculative JIT Compilation for Emacs Lisp with Java
  

  compilers emacs java
  

  Comments
• An uncomfortable but necessary discussion about the Debian bug tracker
  

  linux
  

  Comments
• Inverse parentheses
  

  plt
  

  Comments
• The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC)
  

  retrocomputing
  

  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• You Can't Opt-Out of Accessibility
  

  a11y rant
  

  Comments
• Tag proposal: decentralization
  

  meta
  

  Comments
• Ruby's website got an overhaul
  

  design ruby
  

  Comments
• Go feature: Modernized go fix
  

  go
  

  Comments
• I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms
  

  networking
  

  Comments
• The atomic time scale at NIST Boulder has failed
  

  devops networking
  

  Comments
• How I protect my forgejo instance from AI Web Crawlers
  

  web
  

  Comments
• dumbphone journey -- eight month update
  

  philosophy privacy
  

  Comments
• romforth: Ultra Portable, Small, Baremetal Forth for various processors
  

  concatenative
  

  Comments
• Granule, a statically-typed linear functional language with graded modal types
  

  plt
  

  Comments
• ARIN IPv4 misissue incident
  

  devops networking
  

  Comments
• Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers
  

  go
  

  Comments