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

• A challenger to the throne of vector graphics. SVG is dead, long live TinyVG
  graphics release
  Comments
• The container throttling problem
  linux
  Comments
• Comparing the Librem 5 USA and PinePhone Beta
  hardware linux mobile
  Comments
• Why Derw: an Elm-like language that compiles to TypeScript?
  elm ml
  Comments
• Simple script to use md5sum inline within `curl | sh -`
  linux
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Upgrading a motherboard’s BIOS/UEFI (the hard way)
  hardware
  Comments
• xj — HTML to JSON
  lisp unix
  Comments
• Inverting PhotoDNA
  show ai privacy reversing security
  Comments
• Losslessly compress RGB and RGBA images to a similar size of PNG, while offering a 20x-50x speedup
  programming
  Comments
• Pop!_OS Linux 21.10: My Review
  linux
  Comments
• Fifty Years of P vs. NP and the Possibility of the Impossible
  compsci math performance
  Comments

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

• What are you planning to learn in 2022?
  ask practices
  Comments
• Accurate mental model for Rust's reference types
  rust
  Comments
• Perl turns 34 today
  perl
  Comments
• Emacs's Pure GTK front-end branch has been merged
  emacs
  Comments
• Looking for source of quote: "Sys admins didn't disappear; they got hired by AWS and Google"
  ask culture
  Comments
• Designing a new PRNG
  compsci
  Comments
• Announcing Tokio Console 0.1
  release rust
  Comments
• Xcode 13.2 contains Log4j vulnerability
  security
  Comments
• rlr: interactive pixel screen ruler and protractor
  show design rust
  Comments
• Meet the Self-Hosters, Taking Back the Internet One Server at a Time
  culture
  Comments
• Thread Safety in C++ and Rust
  c++ rust
  Comments
• Why isn't ld.lld faster
  compilers
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 19, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Local man switches to Arch, tells no one
  linux satire
  Comments
• PoC||GTFO 0x20
  pdf reversing
  Comments
• No more a.out on DragonFly
  dragonflybsd
  Comments
• The Principia Rewrite
  math
  Comments
• Age File Encryption: is it better than PGP?
  cryptography security
  Comments
• PrologHub
  plt
  Comments
• ReactOS 0.4.14 released
  osdev release
  Comments
• The State Of Garnet In 2022
  show plt
  Comments
• Paged Out
  security
  Comments
• U-Shaped Utility of Monorepos
  practices
  Comments
• Nim 1.6.2 released
  programming release
  Comments
• So-called modern web developers are the culprits
  rant web
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 18, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How not to learn Rust
  rust
  Comments
• The Web3 Fraud
  distributed finance merkle-trees
  Comments
• mold 1.0
  release
  Comments
• Why I wrote my own Go HTTP client
  go
  Comments
• New Oberon+ to C99 transpiler for near native performance
  c compilers programming
  Comments
• Kinesis Advantage360 Ergonomic Keyboard
  hardware
  Comments
• Firefox 91ESR with Baseline Compiler/Baseline wasm for POWER9
  browsers javascript
  Comments
• Forth BBS 2, 1985 Bulletin Board software written in Forth
  historical programming
  Comments
• A brutally effective hash function in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Building a simple room-based chat application in Nim (using HTMX)
  programming
  Comments
• A Beginner's Guide to Parsing in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 17, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Rails 7.0: Fulfilling a vision
  release ruby
  Comments
• Don’t start with microservices – monoliths are your friend
  scaling web
  Comments
• Patch fixing critical Log4J 0-day has its own vulnerability that’s under exploit
  security
  Comments
• Aftertext
  web
  Comments
• "Imagine if Doctors Relied on Google As Much As Programmers Do"
  practices
  Comments
• LangSec in a few slogans
  programming security
  Comments
• Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 released
  release unix
  Comments
• How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls
  distributed networking rust
  Comments
• WiFi Game Boy cartridge
  hardware historical networking
  Comments
• PNG Parser Differential
  graphics security
  Comments
• Lateral Joins Instead of Window Functions
  databases
  Comments
• Swift Playgrounds 4 is here, and it’s a thing of beauty
  ios swift
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 16, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Progress Report: October-November 2021 - Asahi Linux
  linux mac
  Comments
• Allocgate is coming in Zig 0.9, and you will have to change your code
  zig
  Comments
• Secure Containerized Browser
  browsers freebsd security
  Comments
• gRPC - Best Practices
  api practices
  Comments
• 3 Lines of Code Shouldn’t Take All Day
  practices
  Comments
• nano-6.0 is released
  release
  Comments
• A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution
  security
  Comments
• How to write a very simple JIT compiler
  compilers
  Comments
• Fire Code for Software (2004)
  practices
  Comments
• Mess with DNS
  networking
  Comments
• Why ISO was retired, part-2
  linux
  Comments
• The Blog is the program
  lisp
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 15, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A very powerful 1Hz Minecraft CPU
  video compsci
  Comments
• derw: An Elm-inspired language that transpiles to TypeScript
  javascript ml
  Comments
• Hex v1.0 released and the future of hex
  elixir release
  Comments
• Fun with File Formats
  practices
  Comments
• How to make the Mac better for developers
  mac
  Comments
• Go 1.18 Beta 1 is available, with generics
  go
  Comments
• How I Own Projects as a Software Engineer
  programming
  Comments
• Zig Compiler Internals (2020)
  compilers zig
  Comments
• drgn: Programmable debugger
  debugging
  Comments
• Fixing a Tiny Corner of the Supply Chain
  hardware
  Comments
• Everything you need to know to start contributing to Erlang today
  erlang
  Comments
• Functional Duplication
  debugging programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 14, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• ZFS RAIDZ2 - Achieving 157 GB/s
  hardware linux performance unix
  Comments
• JSON Can Be Faster Than Binary
  performance
  Comments
• It’s time to stop using Python 3.6
  python security
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• The Evolutions of Lambdas in C++14, C++17 and C++20
  c++
  Comments
• Ouroboros (SDN not cryptocurrency)
  distributed networking
  Comments
• Scaling Erlang (2011)
  erlang scaling
  Comments
• Small, Non-Trivial Projects: where you can try things and those things matter
  programming
  Comments
• My DIY Free Podcast Hosting Setup
  audio nodejs
  Comments
• NextSpace: NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux
  linux
  Comments
• Using Abstract Data Types in TLA+
  formalmethods
  Comments
• T* makes for a poor optional
  c++
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 13, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• KeePassX development stopped
  cryptography release
  Comments
• Weird: Generative art in Common Lisp
  art lisp
  Comments
• Haskell’s Type System Standing Alone
  haskell
  Comments
• Fish FIght v0.3 - Open source moddable game
  games rust
  Comments
• Data-Oriented Programming: A link in the chain of programming paradigms
  clojure programming
  Comments
• Benchmarks: FreeBSD 13 vs. NetBSD 9.2 vs. OpenBSD 7 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6 vs. Linux
  dragonflybsd freebsd linux netbsd openbsd performance
  Comments
• "Authorship Environments: in search of the 'personal' in 'personal computing'"
  video culture historical plt programming
  Comments
• Plain Org v1.1 released
  emacs ios release
  Comments
• Opacity precision
  graphics
  Comments
• Learn you An Agda And Achieve Enlightenment
  plt
  Comments
• View a python function's history over-time with Git & FZF
  python vcs
  Comments
• What is polyhedral compilation? (2019)
  video compilers
  Comments

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

• Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens
  practices
  Comments
• "Open Source" is Broken
  rant
  Comments
• Game of Trees
  vcs
  Comments
• Vim Sudo Write Trick (2005)
  vim
  Comments
• log4j: between a rock and a hard place
  api security
  Comments
• Professional maintainers: a wake-up call
  practices
  Comments
• PDP-11 Booting
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
  distributed networking
  Comments
• Using Haskell as my shell
  haskell unix
  Comments
• to secure the supply chain, you must properly fund it
  practices
  Comments
• Unix philosophy without left-pad, Part 2: Minimizing dependencies with a utilities package
  programming unix
  Comments
• The future of Python build systems and Gentoo
  linux python
  Comments