Lobsters Daily

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 8, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend. (2016)
  practices
  Comments
• Google’s unfair performance advantage in Chrome
  android browsers mobile web
  Comments
• The State of Python Packaging in 2021
  python
  Comments
• Goodbye C developers: The future of programming with certified program synthesis
  formalmethods programming
  Comments
• Vim is actually worth it
  vim
  Comments
• First new vax in ...30 years? :-)
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Extend Your Language, Don’t Alter It
  plt
  Comments
• Password generator in Kaspersky Password Manager used biased non-cryptographic PRNG
  crypto security
  Comments
• One Database Transaction Too Many
  databases python
  Comments
• A Clojure processor that's almost a drop-in replacement for php-fpm behind Nginx
  clojure php web
  Comments
• Comparison of Haskell & Julia List Comprehensions
  haskell programming
  Comments
• Reverse Engineering WiFi on RISC-V BL602
  hardware reversing
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 7, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Audacity-fork without telemetry/CLA is gaining traction
  law release
  Comments
• Rust support for Linux kernel
  linux rust
  Comments
• RustViz: Generates Visualizations of Rust Lifetime and Borrowing Mechanism
  rust
  Comments
• Hacker News folk wisdom on visual programming
  culture practices
  Comments
• git update: the odyssey for a sensible git pull
  vcs
  Comments
• TCP Fast Open? Not so fast
  networking
  Comments
• The Endless Conundrum of creating a secure PinePhone
  hardware linux security
  Comments
• NO_COLOR: disabling ANSI color output in various Unix commands
  design unix
  Comments
• Poisson's Equation is the Most Powerful Tool not yet in your Toolbox
  math
  Comments
• Console Do Not Track
  programming
  Comments
• What Can Coerce, and Where, in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• China's Zuchongzhi Quantum Computer is the most powerful in the world
  hardware
  Comments

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

• Freespin - Commodore 1541 floppy drive demo
  hardware
  Comments
• Entish: a datalog-like language for playing with implementing table-top RPG rules in formal logic
  programming
  Comments
• GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright
  law
  Comments
• VLA's are… problematic
  c
  Comments
• Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful [2018]
  plt
  Comments
• Who's hiring? Q3Y2021
  job
  Comments
• WikipediaQL: Query language for efficient data extraction from Wikipedia (early prototype)
  show python
  Comments
• popen+cat (in NETGEAR firmware) explained
  security
  Comments
• How Black Handles Comments When Python's Grammar Ignores Them
  python
  Comments
• PCSX2 Q2 2021 Progress Report
  hardware virtualization
  Comments
• Surveying K-12 Computer Science Curriculum in 11 Countries
  compsci education
  Comments
• Pop!_OS 21.04 First Impressions
  linux
  Comments

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

• How fast should an unoptimized terminal run?
  video programming
  Comments
• Write a time-series database engine from scratch
  databases
  Comments
• Bryan Cantrill interviewed at ACM Bytecast
  culture performance person
  Comments
• I Don't Find hjkl-Navigation Intuitive or Ergonomic
  rant vim
  Comments
• Commit Often, Perfect Later, Publish Once—Git Best Practices
  vcs
  Comments
• Bringing emulation into the 21st century
  programming satire
  Comments
• Where are we going from here? Software engineering needs formal methods
  formalmethods practices
  Comments
• CompilerJobs
  compilers job
  Comments
• visualise your iptables chains
  networking
  Comments
• EndBASIC 0.7: Hello, cloud
  release
  Comments
• A dark userstyle for https://lobste.rs that aims to be simple and robust
  show css
  Comments
• Reverse engineering the Motorola Sensorhub: Part 1
  reversing
  Comments

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

• Lobsters is Nine Today
  announce
  Comments
• Chimera Linux: a Linux distribution based on FreeBSD userland and LLVM
  freebsd linux release
  Comments
• A JSON-like data structure (a CRDT) that can be modified concurrently by different users, and merged
  databases distributed javascript
  Comments
• Things I wish Git had: Commit groups
  vcs
  Comments
• Architecture of LISP Machines
  pdf historical lisp
  Comments
• Full OpenBSD Startup described on slide 48
  openbsd
  Comments
• Thoughts About Using Android Again as an iPhone User
  android ios programming
  Comments
• Swift on Server
  swift web
  Comments
• Past and Present of Haskell: Interview with Simon Peyton Jones
  haskell person
  Comments
• Announcing TypeScript 4.4 Beta
  javascript release
  Comments
• "Space age electronics": Inside a GE thin-film paperweight from the 1960s
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Simply integrating Svelte into Rails
  javascript ruby
  Comments

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

• Neovim v0.5
  release vim
  Comments
• Botnets, or This is Why We Cannot Have Nice Things
  web
  Comments
• PAGNIs: Probably Are Gonna Need Its
  practices
  Comments
• British right to repair law comes into force today, but excludes smartphones and computers
  hardware law
  Comments
• There is no 64-bit type in C89
  c
  Comments
• The Untold Story of SQLite
  audio transcript databases person
  Comments
• CLAs are not for open source, use a Developer Certificate of Origin
  law programming
  Comments
• The short tale of an online scam
  security
  Comments
• First Look: macOS Monterey Public Beta
  mac
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Alien Dreams: An Emerging Art Scene
  ai art
  Comments
• Erlang Records vs. Elixir Structs
  elixir erlang
  Comments

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

• SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll
  law
  Comments
• Towards richer colors on the Web
  css graphics
  Comments
• A sudoku game where you have to prove that your deductions are valid
  formalmethods games
  Comments
• The unseen benefits of accessibility
  a11y
  Comments
• How to set up Neovim 0.5 + Modern plugins (LSP, Treesitter, Fuzzy finder, etc)
  vim
  Comments
• xmake v2.5.5 released, Support to download and install precompiled packages
  c c++ lua programming release
  Comments
• Introducing PathQuery, Google's Graph Query Language
  databases scaling
  Comments
• FUSE-based file system to inject faults
  distributed testing
  Comments
• Cross Compiling Rust Binaries with Github Actions
  rust
  Comments
• Hash maps that don’t hate you
  plt programming
  Comments
• Too simple to be simple
  math
  Comments
• New Formatters in iOS 15: Why do we need another formatter
  ios swift
  Comments

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

• Bugs Faster than the Speed of Thought
  ai vcs
  Comments
• Using sqlite3 as a notekeeping document graph with automatic reference indexing
  databases
  Comments
• Wingman for Haskell: Focus on the important stuff; delegate the rest
  haskell programming
  Comments
• Web 1.1: Building The New Old Web
  web
  Comments
• Typeclasses in Python
  python
  Comments
• Building my own web analytics tool
  web
  Comments
• A User's Guide to ZSH
  unix
  Comments
• OpenVMS 9.1 x86 field test starts
  osdev release
  Comments
• once upon a time (there were programmers) (2016)
  culture devops
  Comments
• Dangers Posed by Evidentiary Software—and What to Do About It
  law security
  Comments
• Tracking-free audience statistics
  browsers javascript privacy release
  Comments
• Adding XCOFF Support to Ghidra with Kaitai Struct
  reversing
  Comments

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

• How a Docker footgun led to a vandal deleting NewsBlur’s MongoDB database
  security
  Comments
• GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer
  ai programming
  Comments
• Why Furries Make Excellent Hackers
  culture
  Comments
• A Branchless UTF-8 Decoder (2017)
  c performance
  Comments
• Building a Spatial Index Supporting Rectangular Range Query using Hilbert Curve
  databases go
  Comments
• DevOps; a decade of confusion and frustration
  devops practices rant
  Comments
• Rolling Back OpenBSD PF Changes
  openbsd
  Comments
• Why build Sasquach lang
  plt
  Comments
• Remote Root to GCP
  devops security virtualization
  Comments
• Yes, We Want Cryptographic Protection for Email
  crypto email privacy security
  Comments
• Monochromatic Portraits with GLSL
  art graphics
  Comments
• An EPYC escape: Case-study of a Linux KVM breakout
  linux virtualization
  Comments

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

• Nice nginx features for operators
  devops
  Comments
• The parallel universe of FireWire hubs
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Scalability! But at what COST? (2015)
  pdf performance scaling
  Comments
• Parse, don’t validate (2019)
  haskell programming
  Comments
• AT&T's '60s Modem That Won't Die
  video networking
  Comments
• For those familiar with Go and (cargo | npm | etc) how is "minimal version selection" working out?
  ask go
  Comments
• JS is weird
  javascript
  Comments
• Unicode sorting is hard & why browsers added special emoji matching to regexp
  programming
  Comments
• Hey Signal! Great Encryption Needs Great Authentication
  crypto security
  Comments
• Polymorphism in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Intro to MIPS programming
  assembly education
  Comments