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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 25, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Happy holidays, Crustaceans
  meta
  Comments
• I wired my tree with 500 LED lights and calculated their 3D coordinates
  video hardware visualization
  Comments
• Announcing NeoChat 1.0, the KDE Matrix client
  distributed release
  Comments
• Jepsen: Scylla 4.2-rc3
  databases distributed testing
  Comments
• Cryptographic Wear-Out for Symmetric Encryption
  crypto math
  Comments
• Undocumented user account in Zyxel products (CVE-2020-29583)
  security
  Comments
• Achieving partial translucency on the Game Boy Color
  games historical
  Comments
• Unboxing the best gift of 1983: the Commodore SX-64
  historical
  Comments
• Yuzu (OSS Switch Emulator) Progress Report November 2020
  compsci hardware
  Comments
• htmx - high power tools for html
  web
  Comments
• Three Great Videos About Regex Derivatives
  compilers compsci plt
  Comments
• A perceptual color space for image processing
  graphics
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 24, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow
  performance web
  Comments
• Announcing Tokio 1.0
  release rust
  Comments
• The beautiful Silent ThunderBolt-3 PC
  hardware
  Comments
• Xfce 4.16 released
  release
  Comments
• My e-mail honeypots
  email
  Comments
• SixtyFPS: a fresh new toolkit for graphical user interfaces
  graphics
  Comments
• The Dependency Jungle
  go
  Comments
• Deploying Gitea on NixOS (Git self-hosting)
  linux vcs
  Comments
• The Beautiful Machine
  hardware
  Comments
• How & Why To Use Airgapped Backups
  practices
  Comments
• Build a Tiny Certificate Authority For Your Homelab
  hardware privacy security
  Comments
• PC DOS Reimagined
  compsci historical osdev
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 23, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why can’t you buy a good webcam?
  hardware
  Comments
• Unicomp New Model M Keyboard
  hardware
  Comments
• Hotwire - HTML Over The Wire
  web
  Comments
• Why broot is switching from TOML to Hjson for its configuration files
  programming
  Comments
• Haiku activity report - November and December 2020
  osdev
  Comments
• How do you index code in your projects?
  ask vim
  Comments
• Problems with building backend app in Rust in 2020
  rust web
  Comments
• Double Blind Passwords (aka Horcruxing)
  privacy security
  Comments
• What’s the point of pointfree programming?
  programming
  Comments
• This community is available in the app
  a11y web
  Comments
• Coding as a tool of thought
  formalmethods practices
  Comments
• The Delegation Challenge of Ruby 2.7
  ruby
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 22, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How and why I stopped buying new laptops
  hardware linux
  Comments
• What If OpenDocument Used SQLite? (2014)
  databases programming
  Comments
• Commits are snapshots, not diffs
  vcs
  Comments
• More challenging projects every programmer should try
  programming
  Comments
• A Visual Browser History, from Netscape 4 to Mozilla Firefox
  browsers historical
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Cross-Branch Testing
  testing vcs
  Comments
• My Engineering Axioms
  programming
  Comments
• Building My Own Chess Engine
  programming python
  Comments
• Vocdoni universally verifiable voting system process ~18M votes in 11 hours
  crypto go performance
  Comments
• YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Used to Upload 'Pirate' Movies & File DMCA Notices
  law privacy
  Comments
• Mercurial, Behind the scenes
  vcs
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 21, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Norway Problem
  programming
  Comments
• Back to the '70s with Serverless
  devops rant
  Comments
• Convos: A Persistent Self-Hosted Web Client for IRC
  perl
  Comments
• Go modules are soon going to be the only future
  go
  Comments
• icewm 2.0.0
  linux release
  Comments
• Experimenting with git storage
  vcs
  Comments
• Dialing Up At Home
  video networking
  Comments
• The Use Of assert() In SQLite
  c databases
  Comments
• Foo to Bar: Naming Conventions in Haskell
  haskell
  Comments
• Russian microcontroller K1986BK025 based on the RISC-V processor core for smart electricity meters
  hardware security
  Comments
• Torus Trooper - Rebooting a 15 year-old game written in D - Part 1 Compiling
  d games
  Comments
• Get Started With Tmux
  linux mac unix
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 20, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Firefox Was Always Enough
  browsers
  Comments
• Modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces
  api compsci historical
  Comments
• I bought Apple Silicon
  mac
  Comments
• Why My Tweets are Ephemeral
  go programming
  Comments
• Bouncy Castle crypto authentication bypass vulnerability revealed
  java security
  Comments
• Crashing Squeak Smalltalk is easy—or is it?
  security
  Comments
• Astropanel - Astronomy program for the terminal
  release science
  Comments
• ZimaBoard - A $70 Single Board Home Server
  hardware linux
  Comments
• The Psion Organiser II: laying the groundwork of our smartphone world
  historical mobile
  Comments
• The Legend of Zelda Speedrun Explained
  video reversing
  Comments
• Re-Deriving the edwards25519 Decoding Formulas
  crypto
  Comments
• C and the dangers of memcpy()
  c
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 19, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why Is Your NES A TV Station?
  video hardware
  Comments
• doggo - Command-line DNS Client
  show networking
  Comments
• rosen: censorship-resistant proxy tunnel
  show go security
  Comments
• Go 1.16 Beta 1 is released
  go release
  Comments
• Computing Euclidean distance on 144 dimensions
  assembly compsci performance
  Comments
• The Debian web updates its homepage and prepares for a major renewal
  linux
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Jujube: an experimental VCS inspired by Mercurial and git
  vcs
  Comments
• Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems
  security
  Comments
• If considered harmful: How to eradicate 95% of all your bugs in one simple step
  video programming
  Comments
• Getting Started with Windows Terminal
  windows
  Comments
• Smalltalk Zoo: Stories and simulations around the evolution of Smalltalk
  historical
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 18, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The architecture of IMGZ
  programming web
  Comments
• Torus Trooper - old-school 3D shooter, written in D 15 years ago
  show d wasm
  Comments
• Rust Survey 2020 Results
  rust
  Comments
• Kate is 20 years old
  release
  Comments
• The 100 Year Computer
  programming
  Comments
• How do I design a system to process messages sequentially
  ask distributed go
  Comments
• No cookie for you
  law privacy release
  Comments
• 51% of 4M Docker images have critical vulnerabilities
  security virtualization
  Comments
• COVID-19 Teaching Experience: 17-313 Foundations of Software Engineering at CMU
  education
  Comments
• My Nextcloud setup
  devops linux
  Comments
• FreeBSD src repo transitioning from Subversion to Git this weekend
  freebsd vcs
  Comments
• Scala 3 – Crossing the finish line
  scala
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 17, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• On the Graying of GNOME
  linux visualization
  Comments
• Machine learning could be fundamentally unexplainable
  ai
  Comments
• Static calls in Linux 5.10
  assembly c linux
  Comments
• Inspecting the Contents of a Ruby Gem
  ruby
  Comments
• GTK 4.0
  linux release
  Comments
• History of programming languages concepts
  plt
  Comments
• bspwm: a tiling window manager representing windows as leaves of a binary tree
  graphics
  Comments
• Plotting patterns in music with a fantasy record player
  art
  Comments
• The Embarrassing State of Enterprise ACME Support
  devops security
  Comments
• Coreutils Gotchas
  linux unix
  Comments
• It’s not legacy code — it’s PHP
  php
  Comments
• Getting Started With Nix
  devops linux
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 16, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Shitlist Driven Development (2016)
  practices
  Comments
• Pointers Are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs
  compsci
  Comments
• SuperRT - Realtime raytracing on the SNES
  graphics hardware
  Comments
• The Zen of index.html
  javascript web
  Comments
• My evolution writing JSON-REST APIs
  python
  Comments
• Writing a Parser Combinator
  compsci haskell
  Comments
• Why XML Security is Broken (2004)
  programming security
  Comments
• Adding BPF target support to the Rust compiler
  rust
  Comments
• Announcing General Availability of HashiCorp Nomad 1.0
  devops distributed
  Comments
• Welcome Yari: MDN Web Docs has a new platform
  web
  Comments
• Do not use Syncthing
  programming rant
  Comments
• CloudLinux promises a CentOS Replacement
  linux
  Comments