The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 25, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Merry Everything and Happy Holidays my favorite crustaceans
  

  meta
  

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• From Nix to Eos
  

  nix practices
  

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• A worked example of copy-and-patch compilation
  

  compilers plt
  

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• twice: chrome extension asking you to think twice when visit social media sites
  

  show browsers web
  

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• Controlling Nondeterminism in Model-Based Tests with Prophecy Variables
  

  databases formalmethods testing
  

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• Application blackbox
  

  debugging linux
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Problem Driven Development
  

  practices programming
  

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• Debian’s approach to Rust - Dependency handling (2022)
  

  practices rust
  

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• Goodhart's Law Isn't as Useful as You Might Think
  

  practices
  

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• Hacking Life into My Little Counter
  

  hardware
  

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• Lock Files Considered Harmful
  

  practices
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 24, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• My colleague Julius
  

  philosophy
  

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• How many links overlap between Lobste.rs and HN?
  

  meta culture
  

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• C++ Is An Absolute Blast
  

  c++ plt
  

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• How Many Hours Can You Code?
  

  practices
  

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• Unnecessary Optimization in Rust: Hamming Distances, SIMD, and Auto-Vectorization
  

  performance rust
  

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• Hello emacs.tv
  

  emacs
  

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• A Tour of WebAuthn
  

  cryptography web
  

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• UIs Should Be Versioned, Just Like We Version APIs
  

  design
  

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• Making a Trello clone using htmx
  

  web
  

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• Debu.gs: Try Inferno without Installing It
  

  historical osdev
  

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• sqlite.directory
  

  databases
  

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• Cramming scrapscript into msgpack
  

  distributed networking plt web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 23, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why we use our own hardware at Fastmail
  

  devops hardware
  

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• Do Not Fix Bugs Reported in Your Open Source Projects
  

  practices
  

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• Plan 9 is a bicycle
  

  unix
  

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• darktable 5.0.0 released
  

  release
  

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• How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster
  

  databases
  

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• Four limitations of Rust’s borrow checker
  

  plt rust
  

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• Introducing S2: The Log – made serverless
  

  databases distributed
  

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• making a website is hard
  

  rant web
  

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• On Long Term Software Development
  

  programming
  

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• CandyFab: A DIY 3D Sugar Printer
  

  art hardware
  

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• State of JavaScript 2024
  

  javascript
  

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• Understanding Objective-C by transpiling it to C++
  

  c++ compilers objectivec
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 22, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• dropping hyper
  

  c rust
  

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• The jank programming language
  

  clojure compilers plt
  

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• Pride Versioning
  

  practices satire
  

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• a raycaster in bash
  

  graphics unix
  

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• Turing Machines
  

  compsci historical retrocomputing
  

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• Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized
  

  c compilers rust
  

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• Rivet Actors, Cloudflare Durable Objects-like infrastructure built with Rust, FoundationDB, V8 Isolates
  

  javascript rust
  

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• Spreadsheets 1/3 - Rye Language
  

  programming
  

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• Optimize your shell experience
  

  programming
  

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• We Have Google Drive at Home: Musings on Merkle-Tree Based File Sharing
  

  merkle-trees
  

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• Nix is a build system
  

  nix
  

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• Rules to avoid common extended inline assembly mistakes
  

  assembly c c++
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 21, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Enum of Arrays
  

  performance zig
  

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• My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
  

  web
  

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• Half My Life with Perl
  

  video historical perl
  

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• Interactive Lustre tutorial on Gleam tours
  

  gleam web
  

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• Visitor Pattern Considered Pointless - Use Pattern Switches Instead (2021)
  

  java
  

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• The Better Daemons Of Our Profession
  

  culture
  

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• Debugging a network performance issue in an OCaml 5 program
  

  ml performance
  

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• Why We’re Moving to a Source Available License
  

  databases law
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Poetry(-core), or the ultimate footgun
  

  python rant
  

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• (1981) Interlisp-D Demonstration by Beau Sheil
  

  video lisp
  

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• The era of open voice assistants has arrived
  

  ai
  

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