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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 31, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I’m not sure that UNIX won
  philosophy unix
  Comments
• Software Development Waste
  practices
  Comments
• Using SIMD acceleration in rust to create the world’s fastest tac
  performance rust
  Comments
• Go is pass-by-value — but it might not always feel like it
  go
  Comments
• Why Lying About Storage Products Is Bad: An IBM DeskStar Story
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Dotplan Online: A modern, decentralized re-imagining of the Unix plan file
  show culture
  Comments
• Phoenix 1.6.0-rc.0 Released
  elixir release web
  Comments
• Hexagonal architecture in Rust #1
  rust
  Comments
• Firefox Containers for Increased Privacy
  programming
  Comments
• Three Clocks are Better than One
  databases distributed
  Comments
• Data-first API design
  clojure
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 30, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A new way of blogging about Golang
  go
  Comments
• Hell Is Other REPLs
  lisp
  Comments
• Moving to modern Neovim
  vim
  Comments
• Introduction to Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations (HoTT/UF) with Agda
  math plt
  Comments
• Let's get hands-on with QBE
  compilers
  Comments
• Reverse engineering software licencing from early-2000s abandonware – Part 1
  reversing
  Comments
• Big company tale: six months for a list and a button
  culture
  Comments
• taviso/nntpit: minimalist reddit2nntp gateway
  c
  Comments
• The (too) many pitfalls of VLA in C
  c
  Comments
• wuffs: Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely
  plt security
  Comments
• Building solutions to problems that no one knows exist yet
  compsci
  Comments
• vm86-based Venix emulator
  unix virtualization
  Comments

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

• My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry
  programming
  Comments
• The Future of discord.py
  api practices rant
  Comments
• jsc: My New Best Friend
  javascript mac
  Comments
• RBAC like it was meant to be
  historical security
  Comments
• Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language
  programming
  Comments
• Latency Sneaks Up On You
  performance
  Comments
• Why I will stay Janet
  programming
  Comments
• Perceptual hash algorithms (2011)
  privacy programming
  Comments
• Computers should expose their internal workings as a 6th sense
  culture
  Comments
• Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources: Part 2
  performance
  Comments
• Silent HP Z440 workstation: replacing noisy fans
  hardware
  Comments
• 10 ways GNU Guile is 10x better
  lisp
  Comments

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

• Why are hyperlinks blue?
  design web
  Comments
• IPv4 vs. IPv6 FAQ
  networking
  Comments
• Some reasons to measure
  practices
  Comments
• Technical explanation of the Québec vaccination passport
  crypto programming reversing
  Comments
• Have you ever experienced Tetris syndrome with programming? What was your experience?
  ask programming
  Comments
• A Vim Guide For Experts
  vim
  Comments
• Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better (and may turn up elsewhere too)
  openbsd
  Comments
• The 74,000 numbers of Barclays Bank
  web
  Comments
• Pin, Unpin, and why Rust needs them
  rust
  Comments
• Writing a simple JSON library from scratch: a tour through modern C++
  c++ plt
  Comments
• NetBSD wifi project status update
  netbsd osdev unix
  Comments
• ICFP 2021 - OCaml Workshop Live Stream
  video ml plt
  Comments

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

• there is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image”
  linux
  Comments
• Linux in a Pixel Shader - A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat
  assembly graphics
  Comments
• Faster Top Level Domain Name Extraction with Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Rudra: a static analyzer to detect common undefined behaviors in Rust programs
  formalmethods rust
  Comments
• prettymaps: A small set of Python functions to draw pretty maps from OpenStreetMap data
  python
  Comments
• Learning by rewriting - bash, jq and fzf details
  linux practices
  Comments
• Useful and Useless Code Comments
  practices programming
  Comments
• Nix/NixOS package version diff tool
  linux osdev programming unix
  Comments
• SAT/SMT by Example
  pdf formalmethods
  Comments
• Haiku activity report - Summer 2021
  osdev
  Comments
• Postgres Extensions in Rust
  databases rust
  Comments
• Thousands of Debian packages updated from their upstream Git repository
  linux
  Comments

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

• Vulnerability in Bumble dating app reveals any user's exact location
  privacy security
  Comments
• Linear Clock: Solar, a clock for a looser experience of time
  show design hardware
  Comments
• Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging in a mouse
  security
  Comments
• API Tokens: A Tedious Survey
  security
  Comments
• How to Recalculate a Spreadsheet
  compsci
  Comments
• Nelua programming language
  lua plt
  Comments
• Haiku has hired an existing contributor to work on Haiku full-time
  osdev
  Comments
• LibreServer Bullseye release 1
  linux networking release web
  Comments
• DOS haven : modern DOS games, new games for DOS
  games
  Comments
• Friendship ended with the garbage collector
  compilers plt programming
  Comments
• The Search for a FLOSS Mobile OS
  android linux mobile
  Comments
• A Brief Introduction to termios (2009)
  unix
  Comments

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

• Programmers Don’t Understand Hash Functions
  crypto
  Comments
• Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics Of Magic Windows
  art graphics math
  Comments
• My Journey With SerenityOS, So Far
  osdev
  Comments
• Typed DSL in Go (or sum types and GADTs in Go)
  go plt
  Comments
• An Introduction to JQ
  programming
  Comments
• Apple's bizarre crackdown on multicast
  ios rant
  Comments
• The most underused browser feature
  browsers
  Comments
• Ement.el: A Matrix client for Emacs
  emacs
  Comments
• Track changes in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PDFs, Images & Videos with Git
  vcs
  Comments
• Gateway Teams - a strategy for spreading development practice in organizations
  practices
  Comments
• Using Emacs in an IDE world
  emacs
  Comments
• Why WebKit supports AVIF but Safari does not
  browsers web
  Comments

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

• Conditionally setting your gitconfig
  vcs
  Comments
• I turned on CSP and all I got was this crappy lawsuit
  security
  Comments
• JNJ: J bindings for Janet
  show apl lisp
  Comments
• h2c - headers to curl
  web
  Comments
• AirDrop alternative through a web browser using WebRTC
  networking web
  Comments
• Persism 1.2.0 Released - A zero ceremony ORM for Java
  databases java
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• mkinitcpio v31 and UEFI stubs
  linux
  Comments
• Cloudflare WARP for Linux
  linux networking security
  Comments
• Cross compiling Windows binaries from Linux
  devops rust windows
  Comments
• Decomposing a massive Rails monolith with Kirsten Westeinde, software development manager, Shopify
  ruby
  Comments
• The Essence of Datalog
  haskell plt
  Comments

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

• First class comments
  programming
  Comments
• Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century
  historical unix
  Comments
• Linux is dead, long-live Docker monoculture
  devops freebsd rant
  Comments
• Remote desktop on NetBSD with Xnest (no VNC)
  netbsd
  Comments
• mojozork: Online, multiplayer Zork
  c games
  Comments
• The Perils of File Typing
  historical programming
  Comments
• Large Rust Workspaces
  practices rust
  Comments
• One week with FreeBSD 13 on an Acer Aspire One ZG5
  freebsd hardware
  Comments
• GitUI v0.17 adds: compare commits
  release rust vcs
  Comments
• Speeding up IndexedDB reads and writes
  browsers performance web
  Comments
• PlsExplain: A small dynamic programming language where every value is explained by a comment
  programming
  Comments
• FreeBSD development on Docker support
  devops freebsd osdev
  Comments

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

• Adventures using and repairing an X131e laptop from 2011
  hardware reversing
  Comments
• macOS 11's hidden security improvements
  mac security
  Comments
• Life before Unicode [in Russia]
  historical
  Comments
• Generics enabled by default in Go tip
  go
  Comments
• An Opinionated Guide to xargs
  programming unix
  Comments
• The Beauty of Bézier Curves
  video math visualization
  Comments
• How Unicode helps to ruin your software
  historical programming
  Comments
• VoidLinux in FreeBSD Jail; with init
  freebsd linux
  Comments
• Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major language implementations in 2021
  compilers plt
  Comments
• Perhaps WSL2 Should be a Wake-up Call
  linux rant windows
  Comments
• The big-load anti-pattern
  performance
  Comments
• Lisp-1 vs Lisp-2
  lisp
  Comments