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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 2, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Things unlearned
  practices
  Comments
• The OpenBSD Webzine
  openbsd
  Comments
• Zig, Skia, Clojure, Geometry and the Japanese TV Show: ICFP Contest 2021
  clojure zig
  Comments
• On bad advice
  practices
  Comments
• Analyzing the Mario Themed Malware
  reversing
  Comments
• Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off
  ios
  Comments
• What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD
  openbsd
  Comments
• Improving My Website's Typography
  design web
  Comments
• Reverse-engineering an unusual IBM modem board from 1965
  hardware historical reversing
  Comments
• Programming languages resources
  compilers plt
  Comments
• YAML 1.2.2 spec released
  programming
  Comments
• Analytic Number Theory Book Club Ending Today
  math
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 1, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The seven programming ur-languages
  apl historical lisp ml plt
  Comments
• PostgreSQL 14 Released
  databases release
  Comments
• Emacs org-mode version 9.5, a major release, is out
  emacs release
  Comments
• Rust for the Polyglot Programmer
  book rust
  Comments
• Understanding AWK
  unix
  Comments
• Why we spent the last month eliminating PostgreSQL subtransactions
  databases
  Comments
• Why I Still Lisp (and You Should Too)
  lisp programming
  Comments
• Fun with glibc and the ctype.h functions
  c
  Comments
• SpiceDB – production-ready, open-source Google Zanzibar implementation
  databases distributed go
  Comments
• Data, objects, and how we're railroaded into poor design
  compsci
  Comments
• Writing Python Extensions in Assembly
  assembly python
  Comments
• Simple task/command runner with declarative goals and dependencies
  programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 30, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Dark mode
  announce
  Comments
• Using 1Password 's `op` CLI tool exposes your secrets to other users on your system
  linux security
  Comments
• The value of in-house expertise
  practices
  Comments
• containers/youki: A container runtime written in Rust
  programming rust virtualization
  Comments
• The code worked differently when the moon was full
  debugging
  Comments
• virgil: Fast and lightweight native programming language designed for fast, dependency-free programs
  programming
  Comments
• Making Spelunky 2 on NES
  games
  Comments
• How We Made Bracket Pair Colorization 10,000x Faster In Visual Studio Code
  performance plt
  Comments
• Gopher, The Competing Standard To WWW In The ’90s Is Still Worth Checking Out
  browsers historical web
  Comments
• This Article Best Experienced In the App
  mobile web
  Comments
• Why Your Website Should Use Dithered Images (2020)
  design practices
  Comments
• Anyone else experienced opposition to randomized algorithms?
  ask rant
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 29, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Google and Facebook, I am facilitating packet filtering to block your tracking
  show privacy unix
  Comments
• Self-Parking Car in <500 Lines of Code
  programming
  Comments
• Practical Makefiles, by example
  programming
  Comments
• Installing Void Linux with a Serial Terminal
  hardware networking
  Comments
• I Don't Think ElasticSearch Is A Good Logging System
  databases devops practices
  Comments
• Stack size is invisible in C and the effects on "portability"
  c
  Comments
• Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
  lua
  Comments
• Where is seL4 Heading?
  osdev
  Comments
• SQLite Vulnerabilities
  databases security
  Comments
• Why isn’t Postgres using my index?
  databases performance
  Comments
• Quick and dirty subclassing in Win32
  programming windows
  Comments
• How to deal with bugs in an agile setting
  ask practices
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 28, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What the GNU?
  historical linux rant
  Comments
• Common mistakes when using libcurl
  api c
  Comments
• How I built forlater.email
  email
  Comments
• Coverage Is Not Strongly Correlated with Test Suite Effectiveness
  compsci testing
  Comments
• Cool happenings in Fedora Workstation land
  linux
  Comments
• Common Newbie Mistakes and Bad Practices in Rust: Bad Habits
  rust
  Comments
• VMS Software Releases Roadmap Updates (OpenVMS)
  osdev
  Comments
• Less Hashing, Same Performance: Building a Better Bloom Filter
  pdf performance programming
  Comments
• Two new color spaces for color picking - Okhsv and Okhsl
  design
  Comments
• tom-doerr/zsh_codex – AI in the command line
  ai unix
  Comments
• High-performance garbage collection for C++ (2020)
  c++ performance
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 27, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Speed of Time
  performance
  Comments
• What will programming look like in 2020? (2012)
  practices programming
  Comments
• Category Theory Illustrated - Logic
  book haskell math
  Comments
• The Perfect Voxel Engine
  graphics
  Comments
• Monads and Macros
  philosophy programming
  Comments
• We are now Solar Powered
  compsci web
  Comments
• Code Review from the Command Line (2018)
  practices vcs
  Comments
• Maybe the Spaghetti Code Conjecture is False
  compsci
  Comments
• Shader School - An introduction to GLSL shaders that runs in your web browser
  graphics
  Comments
• Better JIT Support for Auto-Generated Python Code
  compilers python
  Comments
• Miniflux 2.0.33
  release web
  Comments
• A notable JavaScript developer copied one of my most-downloaded node packages
  law rant
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 26, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Big problems at the timezone database
  java
  Comments
• Why I Use Nim instead of Python for Data Processing
  programming
  Comments
• OCaml 4.13.0
  ml release
  Comments
• Why We Killed Our End-to-End Test Suite
  practices programming testing
  Comments
• No, We Won’t Have a Video Call for That
  practices
  Comments
• A terminal case of Linux
  linux rust
  Comments
• Fedora Workstation: Our Vision for Linux Desktop
  linux
  Comments
• Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (2007)
  security
  Comments
• Vectorizing xxHash for Fun and Profit (2013)
  c performance
  Comments
• Roots (PDP-8 emulator for the iPad)
  ios virtualization
  Comments
• Transactional Tests for Rails running outside of rails (react, detox, cypress)
  ruby testing
  Comments
• Code Smell: Primitive Obsession
  video plt practices
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 25, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Disclosure of three 0-day iOS vulnerabilities and critique of Apple Security Bounty program
  ios security
  Comments
• Atari ST in daily use since 1985
  video historical
  Comments
• Examining btrfs, Linux’s perpetually half-finished filesystem
  linux
  Comments
• Go generics have a new "type sets" way of doing type constraints
  go plt
  Comments
• It's tough being an Azure fan
  devops
  Comments
• Python as a build tool
  java python
  Comments
• My Math Confession
  compsci math
  Comments
• The world's worst Linux kernel module (driver)
  linux
  Comments
• New tool: an nginx playground
  devops
  Comments
• My Janet Story
  lisp programming
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• coreutils-9.0 released [stable]
  release unix
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 24, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A different take on the NUMA OOM killer story
  linux
  Comments
• Rust on ESP32
  hardware rust
  Comments
• SILE v0.12.0 Is Released — Please welcome MATH typesetting
  lua math
  Comments
• Fun with Redirection
  unix
  Comments
• Bespoke shenanigans
  art
  Comments
• "Why should I use Nyxt if I can use Vimium?"
  browsers emacs
  Comments
• The Rust Programming Language for Game Tooling
  pdf games rust
  Comments
• Authenticated Boot and Disk Encryption on Linux
  linux security systemd
  Comments
• How We Got to LiveView
  elixir web
  Comments
• Writing a persistent BTree
  programming rust
  Comments
• Optimize Rust binaries size with cargo and Semver
  rust
  Comments
• Building Dispo
  python
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 23, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A different kind of keyboard
  show hardware
  Comments
• Enumerating and analyzing 40+ non-V8 JavaScript implementations
  javascript plt
  Comments
• Taming Go’s Memory Usage, or How We Avoided Rewriting Our Client in Rust
  go performance
  Comments
• An update on Memory Safety in Chrome
  security
  Comments
• Leaving Apples ecosystem and choosing tools which align with my mindset
  philosophy
  Comments
• Nyxt Release 2.2.0
  browsers emacs
  Comments
• Computer Science: A Discipline Misnamed
  compsci historical
  Comments
• The Actor Reentrancy Problem in Swift
  swift
  Comments
• DIY RGB Icosahedron build
  hardware
  Comments
• I pattern I have been applying in Elixir: Using Ecto to validate params from web requests
  elixir web
  Comments
• Concept of files and folder unfamiliar to modern students
  education
  Comments
• Rust: Structuring and handling errors in 2020 (2020)
  rust
  Comments