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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

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

• Hypothetical Timing Attack on MariaDB Through Lobste.rs Password Reset
  crypto security
  Comments
• Patterns in confusing explanations
  practices
  Comments
• Ruby vs Python, the Definitive FAQ (2016)
  programming satire
  Comments
• 20 Years of Haiku
  osdev
  Comments
• PostgreSQL count(*) made fast
  databases performance
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Plua revisited: Lua for PalmOS (and resurrecting plua2c)
  historical lua
  Comments
• Setting new expectations for open source maintainers
  practices
  Comments
• Modern web apps without JavaScript bundling or transpiling
  javascript web
  Comments
• i-probably-didnt-backdoor-this: Using Reproducible Builds to verify a Rust binary
  programming rust security
  Comments
• Auto-correct Git commands
  vcs
  Comments
• Clojure-like destructuring in brev
  lisp
  Comments

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

• Gentle Guide to Get Started With tmux
  devops
  Comments
• Configuration (and configuration files) is not and cannot be generic
  devops programming
  Comments
• Org habits on iOS? Check! Tasks, you're next
  emacs ios
  Comments
• How an A.I. is Becoming the World's Best Pokemon Player
  video ai games
  Comments
• The IBM 1401 datacenter simulator - experience 1960's mainframe programming
  historical
  Comments
• Designing Virtual Worlds [2003]
  pdf book games
  Comments
• A 5x reduction in RAM usage with Zoekt memory optimizations
  go performance
  Comments
• Decentralized ETS Counters for Better Scalability
  erlang
  Comments
• Here's another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt
  security
  Comments
• Propositions as Types [2015]
  video math programming
  Comments
• Commander X16: A Dreamy 8 Bit Computer Comes Closer To Reality
  hardware
  Comments
• Using the wgrep package in Emacs to rewrite grep results from lots of files
  emacs
  Comments

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

• Asking nicely for root command execution (and getting it)
  security
  Comments
• It never had to be like this: the git "index"
  vcs
  Comments
• Not-a-Linux distro review: SerenityOS is a Unix-y love letter to the ’90s
  osdev
  Comments
• coq_nvim: Fast nvim completion. SQLite, concurrent scheduler, hundreds of hours of optimization
  vim
  Comments
• It's Time to Retire the CSV
  databases
  Comments
• Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model
  ios
  Comments
• On Parsers
  plt
  Comments
• B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know
  databases
  Comments
• Firefox 91 - Revert to old tab style
  browsers css design
  Comments
• NetBSD Explained
  netbsd osdev unix
  Comments
• A few simple tricks to tune your github actions runtime
  devops performance testing
  Comments
• z3 made unreasonably easy
  python
  Comments

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

• Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• The Quest for Very Wide Outlines
  graphics
  Comments
• How Free Monads Yield Extensible Effects
  haskell programming
  Comments
• Programming Language Fragility
  compilers
  Comments
• Speeding up `atan2f` by 50x
  assembly c math performance
  Comments
• New Heterodox Mono: A Didone-esque Monospaced Typeface based on Alexey Kryukov's Old Standard TT
  design
  Comments
• Announcing Delta – Operational Transform in Elixir
  elixir
  Comments
• Adventures in WebRTC: Making Phone Calls from XMPP
  networking
  Comments
• Introducing incomplete: A Simple Clojure Code Completion Library
  clojure
  Comments
• Another year of Sofle keyboard
  hardware
  Comments
• Contributing to emacs
  emacs
  Comments
• Mapping concepts to colors (terribly) with the Oklab perceptual colospace
  graphics
  Comments