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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 6, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Paragon NTFS driver approved and merged into Linux kernel
  linux
  Comments
• Progress on C23
  c
  Comments
• Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC
  historical
  Comments
• x11docker: Run GUI applications and desktops in docker
  linux
  Comments
• Cache splash in Telum means seventh heaven for POWER11?
  hardware
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Javascript Anti Debugging — Some Next Level Sh*t (Part 2— Abusing Chromium Devtools Scope Pane)
  javascript
  Comments
• kubescape: a tool for testing if Kubernetes is deployed securely
  devops security
  Comments
• Programming with Proofs
  video plt
  Comments
• Caches, Modes, and Unstable Systems
  distributed
  Comments
• isValid()? Establish invariants and avoid zombie objects
  c++
  Comments
• A Retrospective on the Dorado, A High-Performance Personal Computer (1983)
  pdf hardware historical practices
  Comments

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

• Wheel Reinvention Jam
  event
  Comments
• Making world-class docs takes effort
  practices
  Comments
• nntpserver.py, no external dependency NNTP server library for writing server/bridges with ease
  show python
  Comments
• Pirating GPL Software
  culture law
  Comments
• Yet another reason to not use printf (or write C code in general)
  c c++
  Comments
• yad: create ad-hoc gtk GUIs from shell
  c graphics linux programming
  Comments
• PC-86-DOS
  historical
  Comments
• What’s in a license
  security
  Comments
• The Descent to C (2013)
  c
  Comments
• NEC’s Forgotten FPUs
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Arctic Adventure: A Lost 1981 TRS-80 Adventure Game
  games historical
  Comments
• How to use bookmarks in bash/zsh
  linux mac
  Comments

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

• The Persistent Gravity of Cross Platform
  android ios mac
  Comments
• Operations is not Developer IT
  devops rant
  Comments
• Saving Costs Asking for Forgiveness in Python
  performance programming python
  Comments
• Rubber Duck Debugging
  debugging
  Comments
• The benefit of a dependency is inversely proportional to the amount of effort spent on a project
  practices programming
  Comments
• On having the right theorem
  math
  Comments
• The Little Things: Comparing Floating Point Numbers
  programming
  Comments
• Exploring fff part 1 - main
  programming unix
  Comments
• Bungie C++ Guidelines & Razors
  c++ games
  Comments
• AWS ReadOnlyAccess: Not Even Once
  devops security
  Comments
• How to ensure a cron job runs exclusively
  devops
  Comments
• A repository of gate-level simulators and tools for the original Game Boy
  hardware reversing
  Comments

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

• Migrating from Docker to Podman
  devops
  Comments
• Announcing Conduit Beta
  distributed release
  Comments
• Large Unix programs were historically not all that portable between Unixes
  unix
  Comments
• timefind: search a website's history
  show release web
  Comments
• GNOME themes, an incomplete status report, and how you can help
  css design
  Comments
• Tomu - An ARM microprocessor which fits in your USB port
  hardware
  Comments
• Glean - System for collecting, deriving and querying facts about source code
  plt
  Comments
• AmiGemini - Amiga Gemini client
  networking
  Comments
• Guide to Tracing in Erlang
  debugging erlang
  Comments
• M1 Icestorm cores can still perform very well
  hardware mac performance
  Comments
• Building a desktop application for Datasette (and weeknotes)
  programming
  Comments
• GitHub - hmmdyl/LWDR: LightWeight D Runtime targeting ARM Cortex CPUs
  d
  Comments

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

• Moiré no more
  art compsci
  Comments
• If you could rewrite anything from scratch, what would it be?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Memory safe, blazing fast, configurable, minimal hello world written in rust
  rust satire
  Comments
• Bare metal Apple M1 Debian at 4K
  hardware linux
  Comments
• NixOS on underpowered devices
  linux
  Comments
• Documents are not Programs
  rant web
  Comments
• Apple's M1 Chip Boots NetBSD Operating System
  mac netbsd reversing unix
  Comments
• nix-netboot-serve: Make any NixOS system netbootable with 10s cycle times
  devops linux
  Comments
• Catabase: a database of categories
  show databases math
  Comments
• Learn Datalog Today
  clojure databases
  Comments
• Stay on top of your Erlang deps with our latest rebar3 plugin
  erlang
  Comments
• Yuzu Progress Report July 2021
  hardware virtualization
  Comments

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

• Monkey: the satirical Go package used unwittingly by Arduino and SalesForce
  go law
  Comments
• Skybison, Instagram's experimental performance oriented greenfield implementation of Python
  c++ plt python
  Comments
• French Appeal Court affirms decision that copyright claims on GPL are invalid; must be enforced via contractual dispute
  law
  Comments
• Brooks, Wirth and Go
  go programming
  Comments
• Why We Don't Do Daily Stand-Ups at Supercede
  practices
  Comments
• Why Erlang?
  elixir erlang
  Comments
• The best Docker base image for your Python application
  devops python
  Comments
• Wild claims about K performance
  apl
  Comments
• How does Apple Private Relay Work?
  ios networking
  Comments
• Why Electron apps are fine
  rant web
  Comments
• OpenBSD 6.9 Router Benchmarks
  openbsd
  Comments
• Anonymous benchmark markets (2014)
  databases performance
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 31, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I’m not sure that UNIX won
  philosophy unix
  Comments
• Software Development Waste
  practices
  Comments
• Using SIMD acceleration in rust to create the world’s fastest tac
  performance rust
  Comments
• Go is pass-by-value — but it might not always feel like it
  go
  Comments
• Why Lying About Storage Products Is Bad: An IBM DeskStar Story
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Dotplan Online: A modern, decentralized re-imagining of the Unix plan file
  show culture
  Comments
• Phoenix 1.6.0-rc.0 Released
  elixir release web
  Comments
• Hexagonal architecture in Rust #1
  rust
  Comments
• Firefox Containers for Increased Privacy
  programming
  Comments
• Three Clocks are Better than One
  databases distributed
  Comments
• Data-first API design
  clojure
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments

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

• A new way of blogging about Golang
  go
  Comments
• Hell Is Other REPLs
  lisp
  Comments
• Moving to modern Neovim
  vim
  Comments
• Introduction to Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations (HoTT/UF) with Agda
  math plt
  Comments
• Let's get hands-on with QBE
  compilers
  Comments
• Reverse engineering software licencing from early-2000s abandonware – Part 1
  reversing
  Comments
• Big company tale: six months for a list and a button
  culture
  Comments
• taviso/nntpit: minimalist reddit2nntp gateway
  c
  Comments
• The (too) many pitfalls of VLA in C
  c
  Comments
• wuffs: Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely
  plt security
  Comments
• Building solutions to problems that no one knows exist yet
  compsci
  Comments
• vm86-based Venix emulator
  unix virtualization
  Comments

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

• My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry
  programming
  Comments
• The Future of discord.py
  api practices rant
  Comments
• jsc: My New Best Friend
  javascript mac
  Comments
• RBAC like it was meant to be
  historical security
  Comments
• Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language
  programming
  Comments
• Latency Sneaks Up On You
  performance
  Comments
• Why I will stay Janet
  programming
  Comments
• Perceptual hash algorithms (2011)
  privacy programming
  Comments
• Computers should expose their internal workings as a 6th sense
  culture
  Comments
• Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources: Part 2
  performance
  Comments
• Silent HP Z440 workstation: replacing noisy fans
  hardware
  Comments
• 10 ways GNU Guile is 10x better
  lisp
  Comments

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

• Why are hyperlinks blue?
  design web
  Comments
• IPv4 vs. IPv6 FAQ
  networking
  Comments
• Some reasons to measure
  practices
  Comments
• Technical explanation of the Québec vaccination passport
  crypto programming reversing
  Comments
• Have you ever experienced Tetris syndrome with programming? What was your experience?
  ask programming
  Comments
• A Vim Guide For Experts
  vim
  Comments
• Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better (and may turn up elsewhere too)
  openbsd
  Comments
• The 74,000 numbers of Barclays Bank
  web
  Comments
• Pin, Unpin, and why Rust needs them
  rust
  Comments
• Writing a simple JSON library from scratch: a tour through modern C++
  c++ plt
  Comments
• NetBSD wifi project status update
  netbsd osdev unix
  Comments
• ICFP 2021 - OCaml Workshop Live Stream
  video ml plt
  Comments