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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 4, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Fixing stutters in Papers Please on Linux
  debugging performance reversing
  Comments
• Compiling a Go program into a native binary for Nintendo Switch
  games go
  Comments
• Secret military telephone buttons
  historical
  Comments
• The fast kernel headers tree
  linux
  Comments
• Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU
  hardware security
  Comments
• Who's hiring? Q1Y2022
  job
  Comments
• dura: You shouldn't ever lose your work if you're using Git
  vcs
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Exploring Visual Basic 1.0 for MS-DOS
  historical
  Comments
• Best Paper Awards in Computer Science over the past 25 years
  compsci education
  Comments
• Pure CSS device fingerprinting
  browsers css web
  Comments
• Performance impact of java.lang.System.getProperty()
  java performance
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 3, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• a comparison of rust and zig
  rust zig
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• The Amiga as “a computer built to last 50 years”
  historical
  Comments
• Almost Always Unsigned
  c programming
  Comments
• A Java Virtual Machine for the 6502
  historical java
  Comments
• Assembly Nights
  assembly
  Comments
• Program synthesis with Z3 (2019)
  programming
  Comments
• Analysis of the overhead of a minimal Zig program
  performance zig
  Comments
• Go Fuzzing - The Go Programming Language
  go
  Comments
• Fixing the Unfixable: Story of a Google Cloud SSRF (2021)
  security web
  Comments
• Log all the things - features of Elixir 1.11 Logger application
  elixir erlang
  Comments
• Write custom Julia compiler passes in library code
  compilers plt
  Comments
• Programming Z3
  compsci programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 2, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• TinyNES: An open hardware NES using the original 6502-derived chips
  games hardware
  Comments
• A new protocol and tool for PNG file attachments
  graphics
  Comments
• The Tao of tmux (2017)
  devops linux unix
  Comments
• 15x Faster TypedArrays: Vector Addition in WebAssembly @ 154GB/s
  c++ javascript performance wasm
  Comments
• Vim9 script feature-complete
  vim
  Comments
• Rocket Review
  rust web
  Comments
• BTRFS on Alpine Linux
  devops linux
  Comments
• Finding Your Home in Game Graphics Programming
  games graphics
  Comments
• Unicode Normalization Forms: When ö != ö
  php
  Comments
• A Data-Centric Introduction to Computing
  book compsci
  Comments
• Derw status: December 2021 - parsing, packages, and testing
  elm ml
  Comments
• Advent of Haskell: Denotational Design
  haskell math
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 1, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why is my Rust build so slow?
  rust
  Comments
• My Setup for Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications + Services on a Single Server
  devops
  Comments
• 2021 End-Of-Year Work Setup
  hardware
  Comments
• Some sanity for C and C++ development on Windows
  c c++ windows
  Comments
• How did 2021 treat you and what's your plan for 2022?
  ask programming
  Comments
• How a Single Line of Code Made a 24-core Server Slower Than a Laptop
  performance rust
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Reusing C libraries: The Oberon+ cross-platform FFI language
  c compilers release
  Comments
• Parallelizing the Racket Web Server
  lisp web
  Comments
• co_resource: An RAII coroutine
  c++
  Comments
• Learn Python ASTs, by building your own linter
  python
  Comments
• Fortran-lang: 2021 in review
  fortran
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 31, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Do you know any good TUI libraries comparable to GUI alternatives?
  ask programming
  Comments
• How to back up your Git repositories
  vcs
  Comments
• Do We Really Need A Link Step?
  compilers
  Comments
• Python Type Hints - How to Handle Optional Imports
  python
  Comments
• You can't copy code with memcpy; code is more complicated than that
  programming
  Comments
• PETSCII Robots released for the ZX Spectrum
  games release
  Comments
• rust-analyzer in 2021
  rust
  Comments
• Building Production Applications Using Go & SQLite
  video databases go
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• On Emacs 28’ context menu and mouse-usage in general
  emacs
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• Clojure is a better Java than Java
  clojure java lisp
  Comments
• A header-only Web Assembly assembler
  show assembly c++ javascript wasm
  Comments
• PGPainless 1.0.0 Released
  cryptography
  Comments

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

• Consider SQLite
  databases performance scaling web
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• Bass is a low-fidelity Lisp dialect for scripting the infrastructure
  devops lisp
  Comments
• Why the C Language Will Never Stop You from Making Mistakes
  c programming
  Comments
• Log libraries and the tendency to open holes in things
  programming
  Comments
• Grok {Shan, Shui}*: Advent of understanding the generative art
  art debugging javascript
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• Emacs for You - A 72 line ~/.emacs to quickly set up vanilla Emacs for editing and programming
  show emacs
  Comments
• Open source package urllib3 raised $15,000 in 2021
  python
  Comments
• Oral-History: Adele Goldberg
  historical person
  Comments
• A Meta-er-verse
  distributed rant
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• What's up with these 3-cent microcontrollers?
  hardware
  Comments
• A realization of why email is critical infrastructure for the Internet
  email
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• NFS mount via systemd (2017)
  devops systemd
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 29, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Writing a minimal Lua implementation with a virtual machine from scratch in Rust
  compilers lua rust
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• Bypassing early 2000s copy protection for software preservation
  reversing
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• Enlightenment Desktop Environment 0.25.0
  linux release
  Comments
• What are some impressive user interfaces you've used based on their intended purpose?
  ask design
  Comments
• Using Hammerspoon to enhance and automate Bear.app on macOS
  lua mac
  Comments
• Avoid Yoda conditions in Perl you should
  perl practices
  Comments
• A Manifesto for Applicable Formal Methods
  pdf formalmethods
  Comments
• Analysis and reverse-engineering of the original Starlink router
  hardware reversing
  Comments
• Maximalism and Virtualism
  philosophy
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• You can now use 'pip' to install Tailwind CSS. Node.js is no longer required
  python release web
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• Hypertext '87 (1987)
  pdf compsci culture
  Comments
• Unpragmatic static blog generator in OCaml
  ml web
  Comments

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

• DIY Email
  email practices
  Comments
• Preventing log4j with Capabilities
  java plt
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Video Game Preservation
  games historical
  Comments
• RPG Maker: History & Games
  games
  Comments
• A Guide to Zsh Expansion with Examples
  unix
  Comments
• rC3 Fahrplan 2021
  event
  Comments
• Practical Markup Language (PML)
  programming
  Comments
• How do you use layers on your keyboard?
  ask practices
  Comments
• Interface Hall of Shame [2000]
  historical practices
  Comments
• System 76 Pangolin Review
  hardware linux
  Comments
• Windows 2000 Modernization Guide
  historical windows
  Comments

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

• Systemd's clock-epoch for RTC-less systems
  systemd
  Comments
• SuperTux 0.6.3
  games linux release
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• State of Valhalla: Part 1: The Road to Valhalla
  plt
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• X.509 Style Guide
  cryptography satire
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• Category Theory Resources for an enthusiast
  math plt
  Comments
• Signal Desktop on OpenBSD via vmm(4)
  openbsd
  Comments
• Reverse-engineering a tiny 1980s chip that plays Christmas tunes
  hardware historical reversing
  Comments
• Learn Common Lisp by Example: Qt GUI with EQL5
  c++ lisp
  Comments
• Benchmarking Ruby 2.5 to 3.1
  ruby
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• The birth of the Soviet missile defense system. Pros and cons of BESM-6
  historical
  Comments
• RuES is a Expression Evaluation as Service
  rust
  Comments
• Performance Anti-Patterns (2006)
  performance
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 26, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The lost talks from Linus Torvalds at DECUS'94
  linux
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• Fix the unit test and open a giant hole everywhere
  practices testing
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• Ruby 3.1.0 Released
  release ruby
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• Cool, but obscure X11 tools
  unix
  Comments
• The Pinouts Book
  book hardware
  Comments
• Street Fighter II: Rotating and Scaling
  games graphics historical
  Comments
• Introduction to the Sam Text Editor
  programming
  Comments
• The simplest web server: while + nc
  linux
  Comments
• Roll Your Own Network
  networking
  Comments
• Observability vs. monitoring debate: An irreverent view
  distributed performance
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• Why you probably shouldn’t add a CLA to your open source project (2018)
  culture law
  Comments
• Zolatron 64 - first PCBs
  hardware
  Comments