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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 17, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Whipping up a new Shell – Lash#Cat9
  osdev
  Comments
• The Chicken McNugget Monoid
  math
  Comments
• The disproportionate influence of early tech decisions
  programming
  Comments
• Announcing KataOS and Sparrow
  osdev rust
  Comments
• Ox64 is a RISC-V Linux-capable SBC for $8, expected in November
  hardware linux
  Comments
• Building a high-performance database buffer pool in Zig using io_uring's new fixed-buffer mode
  databases linux zig
  Comments
• ISC DHCP Server has reached EOL
  release
  Comments
• Shortcat - Universal command palette for your Mac
  mac
  Comments
• Unison Share
  programming
  Comments
• TP-Link network equipment hijacks some DNS requests
  networking
  Comments
• Practical Example - Modeling a Birthday Message Service · Unison programming language
  plt
  Comments
• Mini5 Word Crusher
  hardware historical
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 16, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Designing and Programming Malleable Software
  pdf programming
  Comments
• Pimping my Casio with Oddly Specific Objects' alternate motherboard and firmware
  hardware
  Comments
• A Real World React -> htmx Port: 67% reduction in LoC
  javascript web
  Comments
• Go's several function argument passing modes
  go
  Comments
• Skylake: Intel’s Longest Serving Architecture
  hardware
  Comments
• Possibly a new way of drawing boxes in the terminal
  graphics
  Comments
• Avoiding Featurism
  practices
  Comments
• Announcing Algol 68 Genie 3.0
  release
  Comments
• NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality [2005]
  pdf compsci science
  Comments
• GNU Modula-2 patch review status
  compilers
  Comments
• m2lang: The LLVM-based Modula-2 compiler
  compilers
  Comments
• Automating screenshots for the Datasette documentation using shot-scraper
  programming
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 15, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• You should not be using AWS. Probably
  devops philosophy practices
  Comments
• A Rust library to manage emails
  email rust
  Comments
• Voodoo2: 3dfx's final dedicated 3d gaming card
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Algorithms for Modern Hardware
  book performance
  Comments
• The Missing Prelude to The Little Typer's Trickiest Chapter
  formalmethods plt
  Comments
• An endless collection of accessible color combinations
  a11y design
  Comments
• A rust kernel for the Teensy 4.0
  hardware rust
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Zero Feet: a proposal for a systems-free Lisp
  lisp
  Comments
• Various Linux Kernel WLAN security issues (RCE/DOS) found
  linux security
  Comments
• Yes, Lisp is useful for DevOps and automation
  lisp
  Comments
• hack.css, new.css, Water.css, sakura, Pico themes for my static site generator (mkws)
  unix web
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 14, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Make your QEMU 10 times faster with this one weird trick
  nix performance virtualization
  Comments
• PostgreSQL 15 Released
  databases release
  Comments
• We are stuck with egrep and fgrep (unless you like beating people)
  unix
  Comments
• A Database Without Dynamic Memory Allocation
  databases zig
  Comments
• Hello World under the microscope
  c graphics python
  Comments
• Matrix protocol added to ejabberd
  networking
  Comments
• Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)
  android security
  Comments
• How I fixed git-grep macOS UTF-8 support
  debugging
  Comments
• A New ScyllaDB Go Driver: Faster Than GoCQL and Its Rust Counterpart
  databases go
  Comments
• RacketCon tickets on sale now
  event lisp plt
  Comments
• Rfparty - a new way to see BLE
  privacy release
  Comments
• Is this a parable about software development?
  practices
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 13, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I wish my web server were in the corner of my room
  culture web
  Comments
• Python dependency management difficulty is an unhelpful meme
  python
  Comments
• Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery
  css web
  Comments
• My Future with Elixir: set-theoretic types
  elixir plt
  Comments
• MLstruct: Principal Type Inference in a Boolean Algebra of Structural Types
  plt
  Comments
• Verifying distributed systems with Isabelle/HOL, by Martin Kleppmann
  distributed formalmethods ml
  Comments
• Emacs: macOS sharing (DWIM style)
  emacs mac swift
  Comments
• std: The Nix Flakes framework for perfectionists with deadlines
  nix
  Comments
• katara: Synthesize CRDTs from classic data types with verified lifting
  compsci distributed python
  Comments
• Monads are everywhere... Maybe that's bad?
  video plt
  Comments
• The State of GHC
  video haskell
  Comments
• Reverse Engineering a GPU from 2009
  graphics hardware reversing
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 12, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How Wine works 101
  debugging games linux windows
  Comments
• Improving Firefox responsiveness on macOS
  browsers mac performance
  Comments
• Wayland Support on Linux for Blender
  graphics linux
  Comments
• Elm at a Billion Dollar Company with Vendr CTO Aaron White
  audio elm
  Comments
• 12 Factor App Revisited
  practices
  Comments
• Worry-free NixOS refactors
  nix
  Comments
• A deeper look into the GCC Rust front-end
  compilers rust
  Comments
• Let's Encrypt Wildcard Certificates Made Easy with Agnos
  release rust web
  Comments
• Haiku Activity & Contract Report, September 2022
  osdev
  Comments
• passing command line arguments to nix flakes
  nix unix
  Comments
• Traits, dynamic dispatch and upcasting
  rust
  Comments
• Eliminating FORMAT from Lisp (2003)
  lisp
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 11, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The 4th year of SerenityOS
  browsers osdev
  Comments
• I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it
  video hardware
  Comments
• More about the Google plasma globe thing
  hardware security
  Comments
• Swift was always going to be part of the OS
  mac swift
  Comments
• Back to Android (for the time being)
  hardware mobile
  Comments
• Mike Acton’s Expectations of Professional Software Engineers
  practices
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Ads blocking with OpenBSD unbound(8)
  openbsd
  Comments
• Static HTML comments
  databases web
  Comments
• Halfix: a portable x86 emulator written in C99
  virtualization
  Comments
• When to Use Memory Safe Languages
  plt
  Comments
• kons-9: Common Lisp 3D Graphics Project
  lisp
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 10, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Going where BeOS NetPositive hasn't gone before: NetPositive+
  browsers historical
  Comments
• Zig-style generics are not well-suited for most languages
  plt zig
  Comments
• Untangling Lifetimes: The Arena Allocator
  programming
  Comments
• What sql database isolation level do you run at?
  ask databases
  Comments
• Know your carrying capacity
  practices rant
  Comments
• DIY out of band management: remote power button
  hardware
  Comments
• Python Preloaded: Bundle Python executable with preloaded modules
  python unix
  Comments
• Discovering faster matrix multiplication algorithms with reinforcement learning
  ai math
  Comments
• How old various Unix signals are
  c unix
  Comments
• A Manufacturer's Perspective on PL Progress
  plt
  Comments
• Tonic: A low profile component framework
  web
  Comments
• Memory Safety in a Modern Systems Programming Language, Part 1
  d
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 9, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• 4x4 ASCII Font
  design
  Comments
• LeanQt - official release of the core and xml modules
  c++ release
  Comments
• Why is it hard to learn another programming language?
  programming
  Comments
• Introducing pgproxy
  databases networking
  Comments
• My class is bigger than your class • (metaclass tomfoolery)
  python
  Comments
• A discussion on printk()
  api linux
  Comments
• It's time to to thank UVM and say goodbye
  hardware programming testing
  Comments
• Hacker's Guide to UART Root Shells
  video hardware
  Comments
• travisgoodspeed/maskromtool: A tool for extracting bits from Mask ROM photographs
  graphics hardware reversing
  Comments
• Smaller debug info with constructor type homing (2021)
  compilers
  Comments
• Python Type Hints: How to Gradually Add Types for Third Party Packages
  python
  Comments
• Computer Saturation and the Productivity Slowdown
  finance
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 8, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I've been playing with OS/2 again -- more on that soon -- but it was doomed from a young age
  historical
  Comments
• lambda-8cc: An x86 C compiler written in untyped lambda calculus
  c compilers
  Comments
• Moving files in ZSH - The wonderful world of zmv
  unix
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• A Game Engine in the Elm Style
  dotnet games plt
  Comments
• mastodon.technology Shutdown
  culture distributed
  Comments
• Lánczos interpolation explained
  design math
  Comments
• Magnetic core memory reborn
  hardware
  Comments
• The Future of the Web is on the Edge
  web
  Comments
• The Hundred-Year Programming Language
  plt
  Comments
• Faster hash table probing
  compsci performance
  Comments
• How to tell a mainframe from a minicomputer from a microcomputer
  historical
  Comments