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

• Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace
  release
  Comments
• Crystal 1.0 - What to expect
  programming
  Comments
• My thoughts about editors in (early) 2021
  emacs vim
  Comments
• I finally escaped Node (and you can too)
  elixir nodejs
  Comments
• ZGC What’s new in JDK 16
  java
  Comments
• Automatic video editing
  graphics
  Comments
• ohmyksh - a framework for expanding OpenBSD’s ksh
  openbsd
  Comments
• The worst so-called “best practice” for Docker
  devops rant security
  Comments
• Plan 9 Historical Releases
  historical unix
  Comments
• Safe Systems Programming in Rust
  plt rust
  Comments
• SSH Keygen: a 2021 update
  crypto ruby
  Comments
• How to create a 1M record table with a single query
  databases
  Comments

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

• Really leaving the Linux desktop behind
  linux rant
  Comments
• Getting Drunk with Datalog
  programming
  Comments
• Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to protect user privacy
  browsers privacy
  Comments
• There is no such thing as a functional programming language
  plt
  Comments
• Darker Corners of Go
  go
  Comments
• B2 web UI seems to submit files to facebook
  privacy
  Comments
• Export Telegram group chats into static websites
  programming python
  Comments
• Vitals: a tiny macOS process monitor
  mac release
  Comments
• Interview with curl creator & software developer Daniel Stenberg
  person
  Comments
• Choosing a language to replace Javascript (and why it's F#)
  dotnet javascript ml web
  Comments
• Drawing GNOME App Mockups
  design
  Comments
• History of ZFS – Part 1: The Birth of ZFS
  unix
  Comments

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

• Godot Engine Web Editor
  browsers graphics wasm
  Comments
• A look back at asynchronous Rust
  rust
  Comments
• An Ode to Stable Interfaces: R and R Core Deserve So Much Praise
  api programming
  Comments
• Release of Oil 0.8.8
  programming release unix
  Comments
• ARM gcc may generate illegal instructions in place of integer division by zero
  c
  Comments
• What have you failed to build?
  ask programming
  Comments
• When you have too much memory for SheepShaver
  historical virtualization
  Comments
• Generalized Dollar Cost Averaging
  finance math
  Comments
• Next Generation Shell 0.2.11 is out
  programming release
  Comments
• Diagrams for Penrose Tiles
  art graphics haskell math
  Comments
• Software Design for Flexibility
  book compsci lisp programming
  Comments
• FreeBSD 13.0-RC3 Now Available
  freebsd release
  Comments

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

• How safe is zig?
  c rust zig
  Comments
• A working D compiler on OpenBSD
  d openbsd
  Comments
• Speeding up SQL queries by orders of magnitude using UNION
  databases performance
  Comments
• curl is 23 years old today
  historical
  Comments
• System Shock
  games historical
  Comments
• Response to flatkill.org
  linux
  Comments
• Securing my IRC (irssi, screen) session with dtach and systemd
  linux
  Comments
• Migrating from LastPass to pass
  android security vcs
  Comments
• LibrePlanet 2021
  event
  Comments
• ZPL: A cross-platform header-only C99 toolkit
  c
  Comments
• undocumented instructions in Intel CPUs which control microarchitectural state including microcode
  hardware reversing security
  Comments
• Emoji Pixel Art
  javascript web
  Comments

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

• Fontemon - World's first video game in a font
  games
  Comments
• Rust support in linux-next.git
  linux rust
  Comments
• Going all-in with Ada: a manifesto
  programming
  Comments
• The biggest threat to Rust's sustainability
  rust
  Comments
• Linus Torvalds on how AMD and Intel are changing how processor interrupts are handled
  hardware osdev
  Comments
• Continuous Typography
  css visualization
  Comments
• Cookie Consent Speed Run
  privacy satire
  Comments
• A Directory of Personal Blogs, includes search option
  programming
  Comments
• Linux perf Examples
  linux performance
  Comments
• chibicc - A small C compiler
  c compilers
  Comments
• Rust async is colored, and that’s not a big deal
  rust
  Comments
• A few notes on message passing
  erlang
  Comments

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

• Why use old computers and operating systems?
  historical
  Comments
• Building a shared vision for Async Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Stealing arbitrary GitHub Actions secrets
  security
  Comments
• JEP 402: Unify the Basic Primitives with Objects (Preview)
  java
  Comments
• Algebraic Graphs with Class
  pdf haskell
  Comments
• Wayland in 2021
  linux
  Comments
• Fancy defines
  lisp
  Comments
• Attackers are trying awfully hard to backdoor iOS developers’ Macs
  ios mac security
  Comments
• Q&A with John Kozubik, rsync.net
  freebsd person practices unix
  Comments
• Build and run GTK 4 applications with Visual Studio
  c++ windows
  Comments
• manim: animation engine for explanatory math videos
  math python
  Comments
• A curated list of awesome, language-agnostic WebAssembly tools
  performance reversing security wasm
  Comments

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

• GitHub, f*ck your name change
  culture rant
  Comments
• frawk, a JITted and SIMD-optimized AWK written in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Illegal content and the blockchain
  cryptocurrencies law
  Comments
• Remote X has been a life saver over this past year
  networking
  Comments
• runj is Experimental Proof of Concept OCI Compatible Runtime for FreeBSD Jails
  freebsd
  Comments
• How C++ Resolves a Function Call
  c++
  Comments
• Robust Soldier Crab Ball Gate
  pdf hardware
  Comments
• Unironically Using Kubernetes for my Personal Blog
  devops
  Comments
• 17 (ever so slightly) weird facts about the most popular dictionary format
  python reversing
  Comments
• Writing Small CLI Programs in Common Lisp
  linux lisp
  Comments
• SQLAlchemy 1.4.0 Released
  databases python
  Comments
• Charts CSS
  css visualization
  Comments

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

• Chicken Story
  programming reversing
  Comments
• sd: my script directory
  programming unix
  Comments
• Why Senior Engineers Hate Coding Interviews
  practices
  Comments
• totally_safe_transmute, line-by-line
  compilers rust
  Comments
• Adobe Goes After 27-Year Old 'Pirated' Copy of Acrobat Reader 1.0 for MS-DOS
  law
  Comments
• Why We Don’t Use Docker (We Don’t Need It)
  devops
  Comments
• Learning About ELF With Zig
  zig
  Comments
• WireGuard for FreeBSD in development for 13.y – and a note of how we got here
  freebsd security
  Comments
• FreeBSD 13.0: Full Desktop Experience
  freebsd
  Comments
• Exploring my doorbell
  reversing
  Comments
• What to look for in Fedora Workstation 34
  linux
  Comments
• What I've Learned From 10+ Years of Personal Projects and Startups
  show programming
  Comments

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

• Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust
  c go performance python rust
  Comments
• The Nokia N900: the future that wasn’t
  historical linux mobile
  Comments
• User IDs probably shouldn't be passed around as ints (2018)
  distributed security
  Comments
• How to Read ARM64 Assembly Language
  assembly
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Text Adventures: how Twine remade gaming
  games
  Comments
• Bresenham's Circle Drawing Algorithm
  graphics math
  Comments
• C++ killed the get & set accessors
  c++
  Comments
• CSS property usage in the wild updated by Google every 24 hours
  web
  Comments
• Why Programmers Should(n't) Learn Theory
  formalmethods plt
  Comments
• GitUI anniversary release v0.13
  release rust vcs
  Comments
• What's your experience been writing language tools ?
  ask plt
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 15, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why are Climate models written in programming languages from 1950?
  fortran science
  Comments
• Resurrecting Fortran
  fortran
  Comments
• Mage is My Favorite Make
  go programming
  Comments
• Reinventing tabs
  design
  Comments
• Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil
  practices
  Comments
• The Hindley-Milner Type System
  video plt
  Comments
• I wrote one of the fastest DataFrame libraries
  performance rust
  Comments
• How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?
  math
  Comments
• Learning without Burnout
  programming
  Comments
• Reverse Engineering of Intel Microcode Update Structure
  reversing
  Comments
• Czkawka - Simple/Fast/Easy App to Find/Remove Unnecessary Files
  freebsd linux mac
  Comments
• UserLand Frontier Open Source Release
  programming
  Comments