The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why Lexing and Parsing Should Be Separate
  

  performance plt
  

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• Dissertation Typesetting Considerations
  

  design
  

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• stdio(3) change: FILE is now opaque
  

  openbsd
  

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• Bad Apple!! CD+G on a karaoke machine
  

  graphics retrocomputing
  

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• How I Found Myself In the Game Industry
  

  graphics historical
  

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• connmap: X11 desktop widget that shows location of your current network peers on a world map in real-time
  

  show c release
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• How do you bundle application data in different languages?
  

  ask practices
  

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• Safe Cell field projection in Rust (2020)
  

  rust
  

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• A tour of Microsoft's MacBU lab (2006)
  

  historical
  

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• Deeper theories of program design
  

  philosophy
  

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• Pogocache - Fast caching software
  

  c databases
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• They're putting blue food coloring in everything
  

  culture rant
  

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• Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org
  

  rant
  

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• Why you should choose HTMX for your next web-based side project - and ditch the crufty MPA and complex SPA
  

  programming web
  

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• Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 (an update)
  

  vibecoding
  

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• I’m Tired of Talking About AI
  

  culture rant vibecoding
  

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• The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Introducing XMLUI
  

  web
  

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• Rust Clippy performance status update
  

  rust
  

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• Async I/O on Linux and durability
  

  performance
  

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• Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts
  

  devops freebsd
  

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• Using leaked data to examine vulnerabilities in SMS routing and SS7 signalling
  

  security
  

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• FAQ: What’s a @KevlinHenney?
  

  culture person
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Do you understand f-strings?
  

  python
  

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• Async Rust Is A Bad Language (2023)
  

  rust
  

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• Pimping my Casio: Part Deux
  

  hardware
  

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• Jsonptr: Using Wuffs’ Memory-Safe, Zero-Allocation JSON Decoder (2020)
  

  c compilers performance
  

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• The current technology is not ready for proper blending
  

  graphics
  

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• Shutting down Clear Linux OS
  

  linux
  

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• How I Fixed Ruby's Most Annoying Problem: 60-Second Gem Installs
  

  ruby
  

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• Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration
  

  linux security
  

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• polycode: Encode a binary file as a rational polynomial function
  

  math rust
  

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• When Root Meets Immutable: OpenBSD chflags vs. Log Tampering
  

  openbsd security
  

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• My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup
  

  devops
  

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• Frequently Asked Questions about FHE
  

  cryptography math
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Forgejo v12
  

  release vcs
  

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• The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake
  

  video historical programming
  

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• NIH Is Far Cheaper Than The Wrong Dependency
  

  practices scaling
  

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• Magic The Gathering - Deal infinite damage for 4GRU, as long as the twin primes conjecture is true
  

  games math
  

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• Engineering the End of Work
  

  ai culture
  

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• How Go 1.24's Swiss Tables saved us hundreds of gigabytes
  

  go
  

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• Servo adds support for network inspector devtools
  

  browsers
  

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• firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin and zen-browser-patched-bin AUR packages contain malware
  

  linux security
  

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• Asynchrony is not Concurrency
  

  plt zig
  

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• Defeating Dependency Duplication in Tests?
  

  ask practices
  

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• The Mercury Protocol
  

  networking satire
  

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• Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act
  

  meta
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I'm unsatisfied with easing functions
  

  design javascript visualization web
  

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• Parsing Protobuf Like Never Before
  

  go performance
  

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• Two Simple Rules to Fix Code Reviews
  

  practices
  

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• lsr: ls but with io_uring
  

  show performance zig
  

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• Zig's new Writer
  

  zig
  

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• North Korean XORIndex malware hidden in 67 malicious npm packages
  

  javascript security
  

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• Let Me Cook You a Vulnerability: Exploiting the Thermomix TM5
  

  security
  

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• Firefox dev says Intel Raptor Lake crashes are increasing with rising temperatures in record European heat wave
  

  browsers hardware
  

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• How I Became the First Linux User in India
  

  historical linux
  

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• Terminal Trove - The $HOME of all things in the terminal
  

  debugging freebsd linux unix
  

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• Project SERVFAIL: one year in
  

  networking
  

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• Blender HDR and the reference white issue
  

  graphics
  

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