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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 23, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Some Thoughts on Zig 
  plt rust zig
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• Garnet programming language
  plt rust
  Comments
• Makin' wavs with Zig
  debugging zig
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• Building a Rust Mentality
  rust
  Comments
• Typing your way into safety
  python security
  Comments
• Random wallpaper with just bash and systemd
  linux
  Comments
• TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for device fingerprinting
  privacy windows
  Comments
• A weird epic ramble about Etsy’ homepages from the middle 2000’s
  programming
  Comments
• Security best practices for small company
  ask devops practices security
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• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
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• The trouble with symbolic links
  unix
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• Ranking comments by sum of replies' scores
  meta
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 22, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Static low-bandwidth search at scale
  rust wasm web
  Comments
• Where's the fun in accessibility?
  a11y
  Comments
• An SPA alternative
  web
  Comments
• What happens when you press a key in your terminal?
  linux
  Comments
• Pretty Maps in Python
  python
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• Buy Now: the screensaver (2007)
  historical
  Comments
• headscale: Open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server
  distributed networking
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• Summer #lang Party
  lisp plt
  Comments
• Docco — A documentation generator that intermingles code and comments
  programming
  Comments
• Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part II)
  vcs
  Comments
• Star Wars Scene Transition Effects in CSS
  css
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• Getting Started With Ephemeral Containers
  debugging devops distributed
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 21, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• djot: A light markup language
  programming
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• The Home Computer Generation
  historical
  Comments
• The Ć Programming Language
  compilers
  Comments
• Thoughts After Three Years With a Raptor Blackbird
  hardware
  Comments
• Building a fast all-SSD NAS (on a budget)
  freebsd hardware
  Comments
• Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch
  programming
  Comments
• Use Checkerboard Diagrams to Visualize Joins Instead of Venn Diagrams
  databases
  Comments
• Small, Sharp Tools
  practices
  Comments
• chiark’s skip-skip-cross-up-grade
  linux
  Comments
• mini_rx - Tiny change propagation library
  rust
  Comments
• Hanami v2.0.0.beta1
  ruby
  Comments
• git-gc-all-repos: Script to trigger git garbage collection in all repos
  programming vcs
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 20, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL stripping
  privacy
  Comments
• The Rust Performance Book
  rust
  Comments
• How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST?
  api rant web
  Comments
• Monorepos and Forced Migrations
  practices vcs
  Comments
• Intel Microcode Decryptor
  assembly cryptography hardware security
  Comments
• Spartan Schema: Ultra-minimal JSON schemas with Typescript inference
  javascript plt
  Comments
• Elegant and performant recursion in Rust
  compsci haskell rust
  Comments
• Richard Feynman on Cargo Cult Science (1974)
  science
  Comments
• Soft Deletion Probably Isn't Worth It
  databases
  Comments
• Carbon language specification and documentation
  c c++ plt
  Comments
• Implementing a Toy Optimizer
  compilers plt
  Comments
• Keep docker containers alive during daemon downtime
  devops
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 19, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• M2 is here! July 2022 Release & Progress Report
  linux mac
  Comments
• Comfy Software
  culture
  Comments
• EmacsConf 2022 Call for Participation
  emacs event
  Comments
• Extending SQLite with Rust to support Excel files as virtual tables
  databases rust
  Comments
• Lensm, A Tool for Viewing Disassembly
  assembly go
  Comments
• Hubs by Mozilla
  graphics
  Comments
• Bazel In-Memory Cache
  debugging devops scaling
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• FART Stack
  devops satire
  Comments
• Uncovering a macOS App Sandbox escape vulnerability: A deep dive into CVE-2022-26706
  mac security
  Comments
• Practical Real-Time Hex Tiling
  pdf c++ graphics
  Comments
• Improving “Extract Function” in Rust Analyzer
  rust
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 18, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I've started using Mozilla Firefox and now I can never go back to Google Chrome
  browsers
  Comments
• How efficient can cat(1) be?
  performance unix
  Comments
• WIP Revised 7 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme
  lisp
  Comments
• ed cheatsheet
  unix
  Comments
• In Praise of Stacked PRs
  practices vcs
  Comments
• Logic as algebra
  math
  Comments
• Announcing Pyston-lite: our Python JIT as an extension module
  python
  Comments
• Pleasant debugging with GDB and DDD
  debugging
  Comments
• git-story: Create mp4 video animations of your Git commit history with 1 command
  vcs
  Comments
• What worries me about AI tooling
  ai philosophy
  Comments
• quickenv: An unintrusive environment manager
  show programming
  Comments
• Every programmer should care about UI design
  programming
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 17, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Advice for the next dozen Rust GUIs
  rust
  Comments
• Crypto Ancienne 2.0 now brings TLS 1.3 to the Internet of Old Things (except BeOS)
  networking
  Comments
• SML - The Simple Markup Language
  plt
  Comments
• A lifehack for your shell
  emacs linux mac unix
  Comments
• A Guide to the Go Garbage Collector
  go
  Comments
• The Darktheme Club
  show a11y design web
  Comments
• no-look, no-leap Shell script dependencies
  nix unix
  Comments
• How Qt Signals and Slots Work
  c++
  Comments
• An interactive mechanical contraption in pure CSS
  art css
  Comments
• A Generalization of Otsu's Method and Minimum Error Thresholding (2020)
  pdf graphics
  Comments
• cryptographically verifiable code review system for cargo
  cryptography rust
  Comments
• TextEd: an ultra-lightweight plain-text editor for macOS in under 255kB
  mac
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 16, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• SearchHut is a curated free software search engine
  compsci
  Comments
• Robert-van-Engelen/tinylisp: Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself
  c lisp
  Comments
• Why Rust should not have provided `unwrap`
  rust
  Comments
• Writing and Running a BBS on a Macintosh Plus
  mac
  Comments
• Lessons from Writing a Compiler
  plt
  Comments
• Arcan 0.6.2 – It’s all connected
  release
  Comments
• Why long-term plans don't work and how to fix them
  practices
  Comments
• State of the SqueakPhone
  mobile osdev systemd
  Comments
• effectful - an easy to use, performant extensible effects library
  haskell release
  Comments
• I made JCOF, an object notation which encodes data more efficiently than JSON
  show javascript plt
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• It's possible to run Doom inside of Doom
  programming
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• The ambivalence of assembly
  programming rant
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 15, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Porting OpenBSD pledge() to Linux
  linux openbsd
  Comments
• DNS Esoterica - Why you can't dig Switzerland
  networking
  Comments
• The Slow March of Progress in Programming Language Tooling
  programming
  Comments
• The Verification Gap: A Major Hurdle for the Industry Adoption of Formal Methods
  formalmethods
  Comments
• Plan B for UUIDs: double AES-128
  databases performance
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• Chinese numerals and char::is_numeric
  api philosophy rust
  Comments
• 1024cores
  programming
  Comments
• Functional programming is finally going mainstream
  plt
  Comments
• Quark Word Juggler
  historical
  Comments
• Nix – taming Unix with functional programming
  nix unix
  Comments
• Emacs zones to lift you up
  emacs
  Comments
• hunt-rs: Simplified Find command made with Rust
  linux rust
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 14, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Six Programming Languages I'd Like to See
  compsci programming
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• Decompiler Explorer
  compilers reversing
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• My blog is a CTF challenge
  show security web
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• My business card runs Linux, yours can too
  hardware linux virtualization
  Comments
• Status of Python 3.11 release
  python release
  Comments
• The Problem with RISC-V V Mask Bits
  assembly hardware
  Comments
• Why CP/M didn't have directory separators, and what if it had got them?
  historical osdev
  Comments
• 21 Awesome Open-Source Haskell Projects
  haskell
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• OpenVMS 9.2 for x86 will be released tomorrow (2022-07-14), so exciting
  osdev release
  Comments
• Amazon DynamoDB: A Scalable, Predictably Performant, and Fully Managed NoSQL Database Service (2022)
  pdf databases historical
  Comments
• It's About Time (literally)
  video hardware
  Comments
• What are string_views and why should we use them?
  c++
  Comments