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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 2, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Niklaus Wirth was right and that is a problem
  practices programming rant
  Comments
• Alacritty Version 0.5.0
  release
  Comments
• Zero Cost References with Regions in Vale
  performance plt rust
  Comments
• The object-oriented Amiga Exec (1991)
  historical osdev
  Comments
• Open Usage Commons: a warning
  programming
  Comments
• Perl7 is a fork of values
  culture perl
  Comments
• questions
  education programming
  Comments
• How we migrated Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy
  devops scaling
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Verbose regular expressions, now you have one and a bit problems
  programming
  Comments
• Designing a physics engine
  c++ math
  Comments
• Telegram messenger client for GNU Emacs (unofficial client)
  emacs
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 1, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ubuntu Snap auto updates broke my development setup and there is no way to turn them off
  linux
  Comments
• Different approaches to HTTP routing in Go
  go web
  Comments
• You Want to See My Data? I Thought We Were Friends
  science
  Comments
• Rust verification tools
  rust
  Comments
• Kissat SAT Solver
  compsci
  Comments
• Split Mechanical Keyboard Build Log
  hardware
  Comments
• Go filesystems and file embedding
  go
  Comments
• TAP producing, sh(1) testing library
  unix
  Comments
• The problem of 'shared' IPMI network interfaces
  hardware networking practices security
  Comments
• GRUB2 bootloader is vulnerable to buffer overflow
  security
  Comments
• Why is no one using make for Java?
  historical java
  Comments
• Migrating a 40TB SQL Server Database
  databases
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 31, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Let's build a Full-Text Search engine
  go programming
  Comments
• Nano 5.0 is released
  release
  Comments
• Learning Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists
  rust
  Comments
• Write good commit messages
  practices
  Comments
• Edwin Brady Tells Us What's New in Idris 2
  video formalmethods plt
  Comments
• The State of Ruby 3 Typing
  ruby
  Comments
• meli terminal mail client v0.6.0 alpha release
  show email linux release
  Comments
• Wild Tricks for Greenscreen in Blender
  video art
  Comments
• Berners-Lee 'sorry' for slashes in http:// (2009)
  historical web
  Comments
• Crash And Burn: The Amiga ST Story
  historical
  Comments
• Infinite scrolling on the web obnoxiously complex
  databases web
  Comments
• Refactoring the FreeBSD Kernel with Checked C
  pdf c freebsd
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 30, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• You don’t need reproducible builds
  security
  Comments
• Does anyone use advanced database access control anymore?
  ask databases
  Comments
• three valued structs
  c
  Comments
• oso: an open source policy engine for authorization
  show java python release ruby rust security
  Comments
• A look back at memory models in 16-bit MS-DOS
  historical programming
  Comments
• Lisp Quickstart
  education lisp
  Comments
• An extremely fast, Pytorch-style Tensor+Autograd library written in Rust
  ai rust
  Comments
• What on Earth Is Static Regeneration?
  javascript scaling web
  Comments
• Stop Abusing Semver
  api practices
  Comments
• Tarsnap key rotation with tarsnap-recrypt and tarsnap-keyregen
  crypto
  Comments
• Programming in Martin-Löf’s Type Theory: An Introduction (1990)
  pdf book compsci
  Comments
• You don’t need SMS-2FA
  security
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 29, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Neuron 0.6 released - Future-proof note-taking system
  show haskell release
  Comments
• Filesystem deduplication is a sidechannel
  security
  Comments
• When Unix learned to reboot(2)
  historical unix
  Comments
• Monads and Mom
  haskell javascript
  Comments
• The golden rule of software quality
  haskell
  Comments
• Bitwarden Review
  security
  Comments
• Named arguments are coming in PHP 8
  php programming
  Comments
• Come see BuzzConf 2020, a software and data science conference, open and online for one and for all
  event programming
  Comments
• Mathcha - Online Math Editor
  design math
  Comments
• Rethinking Open Source: The Challenges Behind Establishing a Modern Emulator (2019)
  culture games
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Apache Arrow 1.0.0 Release
  programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 28, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The code I’m still ashamed of (2016)
  practices
  Comments
• New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4,000 unsecured databases
  databases security
  Comments
• resume.md: a Markdown resume
  css
  Comments
• A silly thing you can do with the Ruby parser
  ruby
  Comments
• OCellator: a lispy synth language with structural editor
  lisp
  Comments
• What are you writing?
  ask web
  Comments
• The falsehoods of anti-AGPL propaganda
  law rant
  Comments
• Origin of :=
  historical
  Comments
• Some SQL Tricks of an Application DBA
  databases performance
  Comments
• Writing a file system from scratch in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Preliminary benchmarking results for a Haskell I/O manager backend based on io_uring
  haskell performance
  Comments
• Boids in WebAssembly Using Go
  games go programming wasm
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 27, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns
  browsers web
  Comments
• Socialism’s DIY Computer
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Fundamentals of the Vulkan Graphics API: Why Rendering a Triangle is Complicated
  graphics
  Comments
• SOIL: Single Open Intermediate Language
  compilers
  Comments
• Richter - A modern Quake engine
  games graphics rust
  Comments
• Small Mailserver Best Current Practices
  email
  Comments
• Should I use Chapel or Julia for my next project? (2017)
  performance plt
  Comments
• My Writing Setup
  emacs
  Comments
• ToaruOS: A Hobby Operating System
  osdev
  Comments
• Ansible-defined Homelab
  devops
  Comments
• Remake - GNU Make with comprehensible tracing and a debugger
  c c++ debugging devops
  Comments
• Inside the 8086 processor, tiny charge pumps create a negative voltage
  hardware historical
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 26, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Cryptography is not Magic
  crypto programming
  Comments
• On Liberating My Smartwatch From Cloud Services
  hardware privacy
  Comments
• Bloom filters debunked: Dispelling 30 Years of bad math with Coq
  compsci
  Comments
• ice-forth: A self-hosted Forth on the 6502 for creating NES cartridges
  assembly
  Comments
• Good Logging
  practices
  Comments
• Google Finally Begins Their Open-Source Dance Around Linux User-Space Threading
  programming
  Comments
• Wayland and LVGL on PinePhone with Ubuntu Touch
  graphics linux
  Comments
• Ten Years of Window Systems - A Retrospective View (1985)
  design historical osdev
  Comments
• RFD 1 Requests for Discussion
  practices
  Comments
• 20 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Built Apple's G4 Cube. It Bombed
  hardware historical mac
  Comments
• Unshaky: software utility for macOS laptops with butterfly keyboard double press problems
  hardware mac
  Comments
• LaTeX Typesetting – Part 1
  practices
  Comments

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

• TinyPilot: Build a KVM Over IP for Under $100
  hardware
  Comments
• Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply
  math
  Comments
• Langcraft: The LLVM target for Minecraft you've never wanted
  compilers rust
  Comments
• Will RISC-V Revolutionize Computing?
  assembly hardware
  Comments
• Cursive: The IDE for beautiful Clojure code
  clojure
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• How Gödel’s Proof Works
  math
  Comments
• The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages (1987)
  pdf compsci historical plt
  Comments
• You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (2013)
  practices satire
  Comments
• A Better Cheatsheet
  education
  Comments
• GitHub Arctic Vault, Code and Memory
  philosophy
  Comments
• Wiki.js, an open source JavaScript wiki
  javascript
  Comments

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

• Rust explained using easy English
  rust
  Comments
• Cross-compiling to Redox using Nix
  osdev rust
  Comments
• Why you shouldn’t write your content in Uppercase, instead use CSS
  a11y css
  Comments
• Ground Control to Major TOML: Why Buildpacks Use a Most Peculiar Format
  devops
  Comments
• Verified seL4 on secure RISC-V processors
  hardware osdev security
  Comments
• How Flash games shaped the video games industry
  historical
  Comments
• C's main() is one of the places where Unix's user and kernel APIs differ
  api c historical unix
  Comments
• Nuclei: Proactive IO & Runtime system
  rust
  Comments
• New features in gnuplot 5.4 [LWN.net]
  graphics math release
  Comments
• The SIEUFERD Project
  databases
  Comments
• You can install fonts with homebrew?
  mac
  Comments
• Cognitect Joins Nubank
  clojure
  Comments