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

• Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one
  email practices
  Comments
• Happy Holidays, Crustaceans
  meta
  Comments
• What do you think of this type of “terminal based programming tutorial”?
  ask programming python
  Comments
• Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore?
  rant
  Comments
• Systemd 250 released
  linux release systemd
  Comments
• How to avoid complicated coordinated upgrades
  rust
  Comments
• Useful old technologies: ASN.1
  programming
  Comments
• Hera: a customized hybrid of Source Code Pro and Fira Mono
  programming
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• systemd 250 released
  linux release systemd
  Comments
• Selling my own GPL software, part 1: a lot of hurdles
  law
  Comments
• Linux RNG replaces the SHA-1 entropy extractor with BLAKE2s
  cryptography linux security
  Comments

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

• Tools You Should Know About: nix-shell
  nix
  Comments
• The Mega Matrix Holiday Special 2021
  programming
  Comments
• Canon Cat
  compsci historical
  Comments
• A few About boxes from vintage Mac applications
  historical mac
  Comments
• Street Fighter II, paper trails
  games graphics historical
  Comments
• Wine on Wayland year-end update: improved functionality & stability
  graphics linux windows
  Comments
• Everything I've seen on optimizing Postgres on ZFS
  databases performance
  Comments
• A Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway's Game of Life
  lisp
  Comments
• Learning Go Generics with Advent of Code
  go
  Comments
• Where's the Interpreter!? (CVE-2021-30853)
  mac security
  Comments
• Formal verification of IA-64 division algorithms (2000)
  pdf formalmethods
  Comments
• w2c2: Translates WebAssembly modules to C
  c compilers wasm
  Comments

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

• libgrapheme - A suckless Unicode string library
  c release unix
  Comments
• Why is C faster than Java: git vs JGit (2009)
  c java vcs
  Comments
• How to Draw S-Curved Arrows Between Boxes / Rectangles
  graphics javascript
  Comments
• 34 at 34 for v5.34: Modern Perl features for Perl’s birthday
  perl
  Comments
• Ordering Movie Credits With Graph Theory
  compsci
  Comments
• FreeBSD jails for fun and profit (2020)
  freebsd
  Comments
• dsq: Run SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Excel, Parquet, and more
  show databases go
  Comments
• Plato's Dashboards
  devops
  Comments
• MS Teams: 1 feature, 4 vulnerabilities
  security
  Comments
• Attempting to use GNU Guix, again
  nix
  Comments
• OpenBSD on MeLE Quieter2
  hardware openbsd
  Comments
• Arc Borrowing Patterns
  rust
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 22, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• LISP with GC in 436 bytes
  lisp
  Comments
• Zig 0.9.0 Release Notes
  release zig
  Comments
• Pull Request for Multicore OCaml
  ml
  Comments
• Three Minor Features in Go 1.18
  go
  Comments
• Stop Whining about Rust Hype - A Pro-Rust Rant
  rant rust
  Comments
• linuxtouchpad.org - The Linux Touchpad Dev Guide
  hardware linux
  Comments
• Generics facilitators in Go
  go
  Comments
• Erlang & ASN.1(Abstract Syntax Notation One)
  erlang
  Comments
• Disclosing Shamir’s Secret Sharing vulnerabilities and announcing ZKDocs
  cryptography
  Comments
• Coding
  programming
  Comments
• Inside a PBX - Discovering a Firmware Backdoor
  reversing
  Comments
• A proposal for contexts and capabilities in Rust
  rust
  Comments

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

• A challenger to the throne of vector graphics. SVG is dead, long live TinyVG
  graphics release
  Comments
• The container throttling problem
  linux
  Comments
• Comparing the Librem 5 USA and PinePhone Beta
  hardware linux mobile
  Comments
• Why Derw: an Elm-like language that compiles to TypeScript?
  elm ml
  Comments
• Simple script to use md5sum inline within `curl | sh -`
  linux
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Upgrading a motherboard’s BIOS/UEFI (the hard way)
  hardware
  Comments
• xj — HTML to JSON
  lisp unix
  Comments
• Inverting PhotoDNA
  show ai privacy reversing security
  Comments
• Losslessly compress RGB and RGBA images to a similar size of PNG, while offering a 20x-50x speedup
  programming
  Comments
• Pop!_OS Linux 21.10: My Review
  linux
  Comments
• Fifty Years of P vs. NP and the Possibility of the Impossible
  compsci math performance
  Comments

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

• What are you planning to learn in 2022?
  ask practices
  Comments
• Accurate mental model for Rust's reference types
  rust
  Comments
• Perl turns 34 today
  perl
  Comments
• Emacs's Pure GTK front-end branch has been merged
  emacs
  Comments
• Looking for source of quote: "Sys admins didn't disappear; they got hired by AWS and Google"
  ask culture
  Comments
• Designing a new PRNG
  compsci
  Comments
• Announcing Tokio Console 0.1
  release rust
  Comments
• Xcode 13.2 contains Log4j vulnerability
  security
  Comments
• rlr: interactive pixel screen ruler and protractor
  show design rust
  Comments
• Meet the Self-Hosters, Taking Back the Internet One Server at a Time
  culture
  Comments
• Thread Safety in C++ and Rust
  c++ rust
  Comments
• Why isn't ld.lld faster
  compilers
  Comments

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

• Local man switches to Arch, tells no one
  linux satire
  Comments
• PoC||GTFO 0x20
  pdf reversing
  Comments
• No more a.out on DragonFly
  dragonflybsd
  Comments
• The Principia Rewrite
  math
  Comments
• Age File Encryption: is it better than PGP?
  cryptography security
  Comments
• PrologHub
  plt
  Comments
• ReactOS 0.4.14 released
  osdev release
  Comments
• The State Of Garnet In 2022
  show plt
  Comments
• Paged Out
  security
  Comments
• U-Shaped Utility of Monorepos
  practices
  Comments
• Nim 1.6.2 released
  programming release
  Comments
• So-called modern web developers are the culprits
  rant web
  Comments

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

• How not to learn Rust
  rust
  Comments
• The Web3 Fraud
  distributed finance merkle-trees
  Comments
• mold 1.0
  release
  Comments
• Why I wrote my own Go HTTP client
  go
  Comments
• New Oberon+ to C99 transpiler for near native performance
  c compilers programming
  Comments
• Kinesis Advantage360 Ergonomic Keyboard
  hardware
  Comments
• Firefox 91ESR with Baseline Compiler/Baseline wasm for POWER9
  browsers javascript
  Comments
• Forth BBS 2, 1985 Bulletin Board software written in Forth
  historical programming
  Comments
• A brutally effective hash function in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Building a simple room-based chat application in Nim (using HTMX)
  programming
  Comments
• A Beginner's Guide to Parsing in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 17, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Rails 7.0: Fulfilling a vision
  release ruby
  Comments
• Don’t start with microservices – monoliths are your friend
  scaling web
  Comments
• Patch fixing critical Log4J 0-day has its own vulnerability that’s under exploit
  security
  Comments
• Aftertext
  web
  Comments
• "Imagine if Doctors Relied on Google As Much As Programmers Do"
  practices
  Comments
• LangSec in a few slogans
  programming security
  Comments
• Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 released
  release unix
  Comments
• How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls
  distributed networking rust
  Comments
• WiFi Game Boy cartridge
  hardware historical networking
  Comments
• PNG Parser Differential
  graphics security
  Comments
• Lateral Joins Instead of Window Functions
  databases
  Comments
• Swift Playgrounds 4 is here, and it’s a thing of beauty
  ios swift
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 16, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Progress Report: October-November 2021 - Asahi Linux
  linux mac
  Comments
• Allocgate is coming in Zig 0.9, and you will have to change your code
  zig
  Comments
• Secure Containerized Browser
  browsers freebsd security
  Comments
• gRPC - Best Practices
  api practices
  Comments
• 3 Lines of Code Shouldn’t Take All Day
  practices
  Comments
• nano-6.0 is released
  release
  Comments
• A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution
  security
  Comments
• How to write a very simple JIT compiler
  compilers
  Comments
• Fire Code for Software (2004)
  practices
  Comments
• Mess with DNS
  networking
  Comments
• Why ISO was retired, part-2
  linux
  Comments
• The Blog is the program
  lisp
  Comments