Lobsters Daily

SAVE UKRAINE

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 2, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Use flake.nix, not Dockerfile
  video nix
  Comments
• Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching
  python
  Comments
• Wi-Fine: it is fine to use public Wi-Fi
  security
  Comments
• GeoRust
  rust
  Comments
• Docker and the OCI container ecosystem
  virtualization
  Comments
• Running Linux microVMs on macOS (M1/M2)
  linux mac virtualization
  Comments
• Reflections on my first completed application in OCaml
  ml
  Comments
• Elixir versus Python for Data Science
  elixir
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• The Pine Formula
  hardware linux
  Comments
• ERNIE
  cryptography hardware historical
  Comments
• Microsoft's Xenix - Microsoft tries their hand at UNIX
  historical unix
  Comments

SAVE UKRAINE

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 1, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Carbon's most exciting feature is its calling convention
  c++ plt
  Comments
• Thoughts on static linking in Rust and how it affects distro maintainers
  linux rust
  Comments
• Reference Count, Don't Garbage Collect
  plt
  Comments
• Using Nix on macOS
  nix
  Comments
• A nice round-up of javascript spreadsheet-like grids
  javascript
  Comments
• SLJS: A true JS runtime written in rust that compiles to wasm
  javascript rust
  Comments
• Parallelising Huffman decoding and x86 disassembly by synchronising non-self-synchronising prefix codes
  programming
  Comments
• Type-Signature: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire - but with types
  show elm haskell
  Comments
• ABC: A C compiler for printable x86 (2017)
  pdf video c compilers
  Comments
• New Clojure project quickstart
  clojure
  Comments
• An efficient key recovery attack on SIDH (preliminary version)
  cryptography
  Comments
• Load Testing: An Unorthodox Guide
  testing
  Comments

SAVE UKRAINE

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 31, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• An accentuated Emacs experiment (à la macOS)
  emacs mac
  Comments
• mvsqlite: Distributed, MVCC SQLite that runs on FoundationDB
  databases rust
  Comments
• What Declarative Languages Are (2013)
  plt
  Comments
• Why does nobody seem to know what imperative and declarative actually mean?
  devops programming
  Comments
• zshbrev
  lisp
  Comments
• OxideDB – Teach PostgreSQL Database How to Speak MongoDB Wire Protocol
  show rust
  Comments
• The many flavors of hashing
  programming
  Comments
• Understanding GC in JSC From Scratch
  compsci javascript
  Comments
• Print based debugging and infrequent developers
  debugging
  Comments
• Patterns with Rust types
  rust
  Comments
• Testing Vulkan drivers with games that cannot run on the target device
  debugging graphics
  Comments
• uri - a silly archive format
  unix
  Comments

SAVE UKRAINE

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 30, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How to Freaking Find Great Developers By Having Them Read Code
  practices
  Comments
• Phrases in computing that might need retiring
  programming
  Comments
• Fully generic recursion in Rust
  compsci haskell rust
  Comments
• You Don’t Need Microservices
  practices scaling
  Comments
• libadwaita: Fixing Usability Problems on the Linux Desktop
  design linux
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Introducing the Livebook Desktop app
  elixir
  Comments
• PEP 659 – Specializing Adaptive Interpreter | peps.python.org
  performance python
  Comments
• CADtron: A gesture-based CAD environment
  design
  Comments
• Timsort — the fastest sorting algorithm you’ve never heard of
  performance
  Comments
• Why the Windows Registry sucks … technically (2010)
  windows
  Comments
• Roll your own JavaScript runtime
  javascript rust
  Comments

SAVE UKRAINE

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 29, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Gum: a tool for glamorous shell scripts
  show go
  Comments
• Code Density Compared Between Way Too Many Instruction Sets
  hardware performance
  Comments
• My 4G setup for working remotely from anywhere
  hardware networking
  Comments
• The different ways to handle errors in C
  c
  Comments
• Rust Is Actually Portable
  c rust
  Comments
• Stop aggregating away the signal in your data
  visualization
  Comments
• A Unified Theory of Garbage CollectIon (2004)
  pdf plt
  Comments
• Oil 0.11.0 - Big Features and Project Changes
  programming release unix
  Comments
• Treadmill (a "real-time" in-place garbage collection algorithm)
  compilers performance
  Comments
• Implementation of TypeScript's type system written in TypeScript's own type system
  javascript plt
  Comments
• The Natural Number Game - interactive Lean tutorial
  compsci formalmethods math
  Comments
• When It Does Not Listen for Thee, Ask for Whom the Server Listens (Understanding Listening Addresses
  linux networking
  Comments

SAVE UKRAINE

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 28, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Twenty years of Valgrind
  historical
  Comments
• SQLite Internals: Pages & B-trees
  databases
  Comments
• Does the software industry learn?
  practices
  Comments
• Prr: Text-based code review tool for GitHub
  vcs
  Comments
• Announcing the Keyword Generics Initiative
  plt rust
  Comments
• Why isn't there a CreateProcess that completely isolates Windows processes?
  api security windows
  Comments
• Uniqueness Typing Simplified
  pdf plt
  Comments
• Python is Actually Portable
  c python
  Comments
• How to Write a Functor in Elixir
  elixir
  Comments
• Help pick a syntax for CSS nesting
  browsers css web
  Comments
• Summer of Nix 2022 Public Lecture Series Playlist
  video nix
  Comments
• Corrupting memory without memory corruption
  security
  Comments

SAVE UKRAINE

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 27, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The dangers of Microsoft Pluton
  hardware security
  Comments
• µON: Compact and simple binary encoding, on par (or outperforms) CBOR, MsgPack and UBJSON
  programming
  Comments
• The Ferrocene Language Specification is here
  compsci formalmethods rust
  Comments
• Help us test system trust stores in Python
  python security
  Comments
• Git with Multiple E-Mail Addresses
  vcs
  Comments
• Using BSD make
  programming
  Comments
• Game of Trees 0.74 released
  release vcs
  Comments
• 1993: CGI Scripts and Early Server-Side Web Programming
  historical web
  Comments
• Lua 5.1 C API manual pages
  lua programming
  Comments
• Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us
  security
  Comments
• Python Release: Python 3.11.0b5
  python release
  Comments
• Why ChilselStrike is written in TypeScript
  javascript rust web
  Comments

SAVE UKRAINE

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 26, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• So I've patched KDE Plasma/Wayland under CheriBSD for pure-capability mode. It works
  freebsd graphics
  Comments
• What they don't teach you about sockets
  networking
  Comments
• The next era of no-code
  databases
  Comments
• What's the Most Portable Way to Include Binary Blobs in an Executable?
  c unix
  Comments
• Not so Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE) 2.2
  linux release
  Comments
• How finishing what you start makes teams more productive and predictable
  practices
  Comments
• Let a 1,000 flowers bloom. Then rip 999 of them out by the roots. (2015)
  practices
  Comments
• Dynamic Typing and NaN Boxing
  plt
  Comments
• age encryption in Python with pyrage
  cryptography python rust
  Comments
• It’s time to leave the leap second in the past
  devops science
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Fedora to disallow CC0-licensed code
  law linux
  Comments

SAVE UKRAINE

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 25, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• No-code isn’t scalable. Our learnings at FINN going from 1000 toward 100,000 car subscriptions
  databases
  Comments
• Project Mentat
  databases rust
  Comments
• Non-Obvious Docker Uses
  devops
  Comments
• The nala frontend to APT
  linux python
  Comments
• User settings, Lamport clocks and lightweight formal methods
  distributed formalmethods
  Comments
• Metastable Failures in the Wild
  distributed scaling
  Comments
• Magefiles: Stop on first error
  go
  Comments
• The Problem with Speed Cubing
  video math science visualization
  Comments
• The Case for C# and .NET
  dotnet javascript
  Comments
• dwim-shell-command on melpa
  emacs
  Comments
• Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022
  ai education python
  Comments
• Building a tiny little broken calculator with parser combinators
  javascript plt
  Comments

SAVE UKRAINE

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 24, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• finally. #embed in C
  c c++
  Comments
• The tar archive format, its extensions, and why GNU tar extracts in quadratic time
  unix
  Comments
• Microsoft FOSS Fund Winner: curl
  networking web
  Comments
• The joys and perils of beating C with Haskell: productionizing wc
  haskell
  Comments
• Formal CHERI: design-time proof of full-scale architecture security properties
  formalmethods hardware security
  Comments
• Why MS Word jumped from version 2 to version 6
  historical windows
  Comments
• LLVM backend for m88k architecture
  compilers
  Comments
• The Lazy Way to Solve Differential Equations
  haskell math
  Comments
• Kerf
  databases plt
  Comments
• Making sure that people use make_unique and make_shared to make your object
  c++
  Comments
• Solaris Linkers and Libraries Guide
  compilers
  Comments
• “Meta-circular” Static Types
  lisp plt
  Comments