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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 5, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Blender 3.0
  art release
  Comments
• William Cook, (OOP, Applescript) has died
  person
  Comments
• Elixir v1.13 released
  elixir release
  Comments
• Do we really need Undefined Behavior?
  c plt
  Comments
• PlusCal Tutorial
  formalmethods
  Comments
• Programming War Stories: MacOS Shareware
  historical mac
  Comments
• Scala at Scale at Databricks
  scala
  Comments
• MiSTer 101: A classic gaming device to rule them all
  games hardware
  Comments
• Decompressing a gzip file by hand
  programming
  Comments
• How to use dig
  networking
  Comments
• I had some time and I made an AI-generated podcast to help you sleep
  audio show ai
  Comments
• Why aren't the most useful Mac apps on the App Store?
  mac
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 4, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• tag suggestion: nix
  meta
  Comments
• Don't Make My Mistakes: Common Infrastructure Errors I've Made
  devops
  Comments
• My VR Hell on NixOS
  graphics linux
  Comments
• On Hubris and Humility: developing an OS for robustness in Rust Open Source Firmware Conference 2021
  osdev rust
  Comments
• Some guidelines for writing web scrapers
  programming
  Comments
• Townscaper's rendering style in WebGL
  graphics reversing web
  Comments
• Apache Arrow DataFusion 6.0.0 Release
  databases rust
  Comments
• Is “KAX17” performing de-anonymization Attacks against Tor Users?
  privacy security
  Comments
• Verneuil: S3-backed asynchronous replication for SQLite
  databases release
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• The skyline problem (2014)
  compsci
  Comments
• Diacritical Marks in Unicode
  programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 3, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Tvix: We are rewriting Nix
  unix
  Comments
• Announcing Rust 1.57.0
  rust
  Comments
• Ideal monitor rotation for programmers
  linux
  Comments
• Haiku ported to RISC-V
  osdev
  Comments
• Avy can do anything
  emacs
  Comments
• How to have a Neovim configuration compatible with Vim
  vim
  Comments
• Qt Creator 6 released
  c++
  Comments
• fast-check: How it works
  testing
  Comments
• Programing languages characterised by their attitude towards pointers
  satire
  Comments
• FerretDB: A truly Open Source MongoDB alternative
  databases go
  Comments
• The big idea around unikernels
  culture devops
  Comments
• Encryption Does Not Equal Invisibility – Detecting Anomalous TLS Certificates with the Half-Space-Trees Algorithm
  cryptography
  Comments

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

• Advent of Code 2021
  programming
  Comments
• NixOS 21.11 released
  linux release
  Comments
• Release NVIM v0.6.0
  release vim
  Comments
• DESQview/X : The forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future
  historical
  Comments
• doas insults
  openbsd
  Comments
• This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem
  security
  Comments
• Tools I use: PyCharm
  programming
  Comments
• A look at Popcorn Computer's new Pocket P.C
  hardware linux mobile
  Comments
• New subreddit for folks building databases
  culture databases
  Comments
• Python's None problem, and how Mypy helps you deal with it
  plt python
  Comments
• C Compiler which targets Excel
  c compilers
  Comments
• Virtual Machine Showdown: Stack Versus Registers (2005)
  pdf performance
  Comments

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

• Hubris and Humility
  rust
  Comments
• chat.sr.ht: a persistent IRC session for sourcehut users
  culture
  Comments
• Will Nix Overtake Docker?
  devops practices
  Comments
• Uses This: Andreas Kling
  practices
  Comments
• asmrepl: A REPL for x86 assembly language
  assembly ruby
  Comments
• Receiving Starlink satellite beacons on a budget
  hardware
  Comments
• Simple Things That Are Actually Hard: User Authentication
  security
  Comments
• Recent Progress on the Oil shell
  programming unix
  Comments
• Uninitialized Stack Variables
  c
  Comments
• Computer Networking Introduction - Ethernet and IP (Heavily Illustrated)
  networking
  Comments
• Prettier switch-cases
  c++
  Comments
• On Yak Shaving and , a new HTML element for Markdown
  web
  Comments

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

• asciinema 3.0, 4x smaller, 50x faster
  performance rust
  Comments
• Alloy 6: it's about Time
  formalmethods release
  Comments
• Orgdown - a New Lightweight Markup Standard for Text Documents
  a11y api emacs
  Comments
• JetBrains Fleet: The Next-Generation IDE
  programming release
  Comments
• The History of Command Palettes: How Typing Commands Became The Norm Again
  design
  Comments
• Why I have settled on XChaCha20+Blake3 as the AEAD suite of choice for my projects
  cryptography security
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• LLVM internals, part 4: attributes and attribute groups
  compilers rust
  Comments
• The Case of the Recursive Resolvers
  networking security
  Comments
• Practical parsing with Flex and Bison
  programming unix
  Comments
• Faster Top Level Domain Name Extraction with Go
  go performance rust
  Comments
• Help needed customizing Belenios voting system written in OCaml
  job ml
  Comments

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

• Some obscure C features
  c
  Comments
• MacBook Air M1: the best laptop?
  mac
  Comments
• You Can't Download this Image
  browsers
  Comments
• Late-bound argument defaults for Python
  python
  Comments
• I have no idea what I’m doing
  practices
  Comments
• Designing a Programming Language for Advent of Code
  plt
  Comments
• csum_partial optimization
  linux networking performance
  Comments
• The Token Disconnect
  finance
  Comments
• Data Exfiltration via CSS + SVG Font
  security web
  Comments
• Emacs bends again
  emacs ios swift testing
  Comments
• The Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's clever exponential circuit, reverse-engineered
  hardware historical reversing
  Comments
• A small and portable Scheme implementation with AOT and incremental compilers that fits in 4K
  lisp plt
  Comments

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

• Computer Science was always supposed to be taught to everyone, and it wasn’t about getting a job: A historical perspective
  compsci education
  Comments
• Run a website off a Google Sheets Database, with Hugo
  programming
  Comments
• Optimising memset and memcpy
  assembly performance
  Comments
• no u pnp
  networking security
  Comments
• NixOS: Headless Home Assistant VM
  linux virtualization
  Comments
• We've Been Doing It The Wrong Way
  philosophy practices
  Comments
• Things I learned from building a production database
  databases practices
  Comments
• SQLite Release 3.37.0
  databases release
  Comments
• Magma: A dependently-typed language
  plt
  Comments
• How to jailbreak an Amazon Echo Dot?
  ask hardware reversing
  Comments
• An 'Attempt' to avoid C++ exceptions
  c++
  Comments
• What Does It Take To Port 16-Bit Windows 1.0 Applications Into Native Windows 11 Programs?
  video historical programming windows
  Comments

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

• Technology I’m thankful for
  programming
  Comments
• NattyNarwhal/vmwmouse: VMware mouse driver for Windows 3.1
  show assembly virtualization windows
  Comments
• Programmers should stop celebrating incompetence
  education programming rant
  Comments
• What is Hammock Driven Development?
  programming
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• WWWBrowser - a Haskell web browser (1994)
  haskell historical
  Comments
• getElementById vs querySelector
  javascript performance web
  Comments
• Go Does Not Need a Java Style GC
  go java
  Comments
• Venus on QEMU: Enabling the new virtual Vulkan driver
  linux virtualization
  Comments
• aclements/latexrun: A 21st century LaTeX wrapper
  math python
  Comments
• The Toit language is now open source
  plt
  Comments
• The unexpected return of JavaScript for Automation
  javascript mac
  Comments

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

• The fish shell is amazing
  programming
  Comments
• The Secret History of ATAPI
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Everything you ever wanted to know about UDP sockets but were afraid to ask, part 1
  linux networking
  Comments
• The ZLD Linker
  video compilers performance zig
  Comments
• The Fastest FizzBuzz Implementation
  assembly linux performance
  Comments
• Faster software through register based calling
  assembly go performance
  Comments
• The Best Starting Word in WORDLE
  games javascript nodejs
  Comments
• What is AMD ROCm?
  api graphics
  Comments
• A command-line utility for generating random passwords, passphrases, and raw keys by the NSA
  cryptography security
  Comments
• The Varieties of the Haskelling Experience
  emacs haskell vim
  Comments
• Transformers from Scratch
  ai
  Comments
• Modern PHP Cheat Sheet
  php
  Comments