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

• Why curl uses GitHub
  devops vcs
  Comments
• OO in Python is mostly pointless
  python
  Comments
• The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is still developed and modern in 2021
  linux
  Comments
• qutebrowser v2.0.0 released, with support for Brave's Rust adblocker
  browsers release
  Comments
• Safe dead code removal in a pure functional language
  elm javascript plt
  Comments
• How to Read Rust Functions, Part 1
  rust
  Comments
• OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano (1st Gen)
  hardware openbsd
  Comments
• Silicon Valley hasn’t innovated since 1978
  historical rant
  Comments
• Ballista, a distributed compute platform made with Rust and Apache Arrow
  distributed programming rust
  Comments
• WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard
  web
  Comments
• Let's Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science
  historical science
  Comments
• krunvm: Create and run lightweight VMs from OCI images on Linux and macOS/arm64
  virtualization
  Comments

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

• Software development topics I've changed my mind on after 6 years in the industry
  practices
  Comments
• The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
  web
  Comments
• What am I running inside my bash?
  linux
  Comments
• What color was “Apple Beige”?
  design historical
  Comments
• JanetDocs
  programming
  Comments
• What’s The Deal With Chromium On Linux? Google At Odds With Package Maintainers
  browsers linux
  Comments
• 編程語言 Programming Language for the ancient Chinese
  plt
  Comments
• Tinywm: An X11 window manager in 50 lines of C
  graphics programming unix
  Comments
• NAT Slipstreaming v2.0: New Attack Variant Can Expose All Internal Network Devices to The Internet
  security
  Comments
• The R language, for programmers
  programming
  Comments
• CSS: prefers-color-scheme
  browsers web
  Comments
• A Peek Into The Future Of Distros
  linux
  Comments

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

• Firefox 85 Cracks Down on Supercookies
  browsers privacy
  Comments
• Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo (CVE-2021-3156)
  security
  Comments
• Solo v2: redesign of the open FIDO2 security key
  crypto hardware security
  Comments
• Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing the GNU Autotools
  unix
  Comments
• skiftOS
  osdev
  Comments
• Vanilla Emacs on NixOS
  emacs linux
  Comments
• Raspberry Pi: Boot to BASIC
  programming
  Comments
• Should You Write a Wayland Compositor?
  c c++ linux
  Comments
• Window System Design: If I had it to do over again in 2002
  pdf graphics
  Comments
• awa: Purely functional SSH library in OCaml
  ml
  Comments
• Android 10 ported to homegrown multi-core RISC-V system-on-chip by Alibaba biz, source code released
  android hardware
  Comments
• Vim's todo.txt
  vim
  Comments

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

• Zig Makes Go Cross Compilation Just Work
  c c++ go zig
  Comments
• Ordering Burritos from my SPARC (1992)
  unix
  Comments
• I made an alarm clock
  show hardware programming
  Comments
• Why you should never ever use NixOS (2018)
  linux rant
  Comments
• Elm at Rakuten
  elm web
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Gleam: Lean BEAM typing machine
  video erlang plt
  Comments
• The endless browser wars
  browsers
  Comments
• Node.js race conditions
  javascript
  Comments
• Pallene: A statically typed companion language for Lua (2018)
  pdf lua
  Comments
• Bundlewrap: First Impressions
  devops python
  Comments
• What is the future of databases?
  databases
  Comments

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

• ijq: Interactive jq
  programming
  Comments
• Offloading NixOS builds to a faster machine
  devops linux
  Comments
• Pip has dropped support for Python 2
  python release
  Comments
• lite - A lightweight text editor written in Lua
  lua programming
  Comments
• Sokyokuban a puzzle game in a non-Euclidian world
  games math
  Comments
• Small, strongly typed, embeddable language in Zig
  plt zig
  Comments
• Make Boring Plans
  practices
  Comments
• 9p GitHub filesystem written in Go
  go vcs
  Comments
• Racket Compiler and Runtime Status: January 2021
  lisp
  Comments
• An Oddity In VIM
  vim
  Comments
• GumTree - A neat code differencing tool
  programming
  Comments
• The No-Order File System (2012)
  osdev programming
  Comments

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

• What do you use for password management?
  ask privacy security
  Comments
• KindleDrip — From Your Kindle’s Email Address to Using Your Credit Card
  security
  Comments
• fe - A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C in less than 800 sloc
  c lisp
  Comments
• Firecracker: start a VM in less than a second
  linux virtualization
  Comments
• Brad Cox (creator of Objective-C) has died
  objectivec person
  Comments
• What do you use to share URLs, photos, or random bits of text between devices?
  ask android ios
  Comments
• Quite the reMarkable Device
  culture hardware
  Comments
• PostgreSQL on ARM-based AWS EC2 Instances: Is It Any Good?
  databases performance
  Comments
• Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C (2020)
  c programming
  Comments
• I bought 200+ Raspberry Pi Model B's and I'm going to fix them! Part 1
  hardware
  Comments
• But how, exactly, databases use mmap?
  databases unix
  Comments
• On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots:Can Language Models Be Too Big?
  pdf ai
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 23, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why I’ve tracked every single piece of clothing I’ve worn for three years
  math visualization
  Comments
• Open Source is Discrimination
  rant
  Comments
• How We Ported Linux to the M1
  hardware linux mac
  Comments
• Why isn't differential dataflow more popular?
  databases distributed
  Comments
• Can we talk about client-side certificates?
  api crypto web
  Comments
• Category Theory Illustrated - Monoids
  show math
  Comments
• tio, A simple TTY terminal I/O application
  c unix
  Comments
• This is 2021: what's coming in free/libre software
  release
  Comments
• AWS blog: Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch
  law release
  Comments
• The Secure Messaging App Conundrum: Signal vs. Telegram (a comparisson for non experts)
  pdf security
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• freshermeat: An open source software directory and release tracker
  programming web
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 22, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Please Stop Encrypting with RSA Directly
  crypto security
  Comments
• Meet Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $4
  hardware release
  Comments
• Tcl/Tk 8.6.11
  programming release
  Comments
• Rust for Windows
  rust windows
  Comments
• How I use Pandoc to create programming eBooks
  practices
  Comments
• Open source Alfred alternative
  show mac release
  Comments
• rebar3_hank: The Erlang Dead Code Cleaner
  erlang
  Comments
• A Tour of Go 1.16's io/fs package
  go
  Comments
• XTerm does graphics! (sort of)
  linux
  Comments
• Build Your Own Text Editor
  c
  Comments
• xmake v2.5.1 released, Support for Apple Silicon and more powerful package management
  c c++ lua programming release
  Comments
• Old compilers and old bugs
  compilers
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 21, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Rust GUI: Introduction, a.k.a. the state of Rust GUI libraries (As of January 2021)
  rust
  Comments
• When costs are nonlinear, keep it small
  practices
  Comments
• Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon
  browsers mac
  Comments
• Choosing Haskell isn’t a stand-in for good software design
  haskell programming
  Comments
• Privacy Comparison of Web Browsers
  browsers privacy
  Comments
• Why am I wasting time on EndBASIC?
  plt rust
  Comments
• Parse HTML at the command line
  web
  Comments
• Dumbdown - the dumb alternative to markdown, is now a real project
  plt
  Comments
• Encrypted Secrets with NixOS
  devops security
  Comments
• Browser-based Video Editor in ~1k Lines of Vanilla Javascript
  javascript
  Comments
• Star Wars PDP-11/45
  video graphics
  Comments
• Lenna's Inception » Postmortem
  games historical
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 20, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• User power, not power users: htop and its design philosophy
  design practices
  Comments
• Go's ioutil package to be deprecated in 1.16
  go
  Comments
• runson.cloud
  networking
  Comments
• Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing
  c lua programming
  Comments
• Tailscale on NixOS: A New Minecraft Server in Ten Minutes
  devops networking
  Comments
• Fennel 0.8.0 released
  lisp lua release
  Comments
• Elasticsearch does not belong to Elastic
  law rant
  Comments
• Go proposal: types that can only be created by defining package
  go plt
  Comments
• godocs.io is now available
  go
  Comments
• Spooky action at a distance
  c c++ debugging plt
  Comments
• The Evolution of a Research Paper
  compsci
  Comments
• My Favourite DevTool Features
  browsers web
  Comments