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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 3, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• C Programming on System 6
  video c historical mac
  Comments
• evilpass: Slightly evil password strength checker
  python security
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• Performance of Elixir's System.get_env/0 Function
  elixir performance
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• Best Repos for Learning Rust?
  ask rust
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• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
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• Introduction to profiling in Emacs
  emacs
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• The Perl Ambassador: Damian Conway
  perl
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• Coping with the TCP TIME-WAIT state on busy Linux servers
  linux networking
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• Introducing Swift Atomics
  swift
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• The Magic of Python Context Managers
  python
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• Typography in 8 bits: System fonts
  design
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• An opinionated history of programming languages
  c++ haskell historical plt rust
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 2, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest is Hurting Open Source
  practices programming
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• Darcs, friendly version control
  book vcs
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• KeenWrite: A text editor
  show java math programming
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• Critical Programming
  practices
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• How Mara Works
  practices web
  Comments
• SSH configuration
  devops
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• Optimization - Making Rust Code Go Brrrr
  rust
  Comments
• Linux package managers are slow
  linux
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• SerenityOS update (September 2020)
  video osdev unix
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• [ Is a Builtin, But [[ Is Part of the Shell Language (2016)
  programming unix
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• ElasticSearch query builder
  programming
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• Compiling a Lisp to x86-64: Let expressions
  assembly c compilers lisp
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 1, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Writing a book: is it worth it?
  book finance
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• How India Censors The Web
  networking
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• Revisiting a 'smaller Rust'
  rust
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• How a Half-Dozen Raspberry Pis Help Keep This Maine Oyster Farm Afloat
  hardware
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• Ideas from my Development Setup: Always Tmux
  linux unix
  Comments
• When fonts fall
  a11y design
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• Unsyntax - a sane implementation of R7RS Scheme
  lisp
  Comments
• Windows XP and Server 2003 compiled from leaked source code
  windows
  Comments
• Building interactive maps with statically generated vector tiles
  web
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• Welcoming Gitter to Matrix
  distributed
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• Book Review: Elements of Programmnig
  book c++ programming
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• Setting up a Nix S3 binary cache
  devops
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 30, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Koka Language
  plt
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• In defense of XML
  java
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• Money Well Spent – Short Story for Engineers
  scaling
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• duf - a user friendly alternative to df
  go
  Comments
• Stupid solutions: Live server push without JS
  elixir web
  Comments
• Glasgow Haskell Compiler 9.0.1-alpha1 released
  haskell
  Comments
• LLVM Backend for Motorola 68000 series CPU
  assembly compilers hardware
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• Wayland on NetBSD - trials and tribulations
  netbsd unix
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• Default window manager switched to CTWM in NetBSD-current
  netbsd
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• JSON Parsing from Scratch in Haskell: Error Reporting
  haskell
  Comments
• earthly
  devops go
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• Guided Tour of the Precursor Motherboard
  hardware security
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 29, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Zig's New Relationship with LLVM
  compilers
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• Things I Was Wrong About: Types 
  programming
  Comments
• Spritely
  distributed lisp
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• That's a lot of YAML
  practices
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• It used to be simpler to teach Unix
  linux unix
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• Origin of Quake3's Fast InvSqrt()
  games historical math
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• The failed promise of Web Components
  rant web
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• Firefox Nightly Adds JIT Warp Code for Greater (13-20%) JavaScript Performance
  browsers
  Comments
• Windows’ Hidden Self Destruct Code
  video historical windows
  Comments
• Hacking a gopher client into the Alpha Micro
  assembly historical
  Comments
• I was wrong. CRDTs are the future
  distributed networking programming
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 28, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Light colour schemes are better, based on science
  practices
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• So you want to live-reload Rust
  c linux rust
  Comments
• Don’t trust Cloudflare with your personal data
  security
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• Rust Crates that do What the Go Standard library Does
  rust
  Comments
• caramel: An erlang backend for ocaml
  erlang ml
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• Tiny Tiny RSS vs Miniflux
  web
  Comments
• ScummVM 2.2.0
  games historical release
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• OpenSSH 8.4
  release security
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• Towards principled reactive UI
  browsers elm graphics javascript performance rust swift
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• sectorforth: A 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a boot sector
  plt programming
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• The Fresh Smell of ransomed coffee
  hardware security
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• Reverse engineering a Hit Clip
  hardware reversing
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 27, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A tale of two libcs
  c
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• Let's talk about safety of Pinephone
  hardware
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• How do I remove the first 300 million lines from a 700 GB txt file on a system with 1 TB max disk space?
  linux unix
  Comments
• Most Technical debt is just bullshit
  practices
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• Ruby 3.0.0 Preview 1 Released
  ruby
  Comments
• Show: shitmyself, web-based forum system
  show perl
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• qbe: a small x64 compiler backend in pure C
  compilers
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• Add Some Ghibli to Your Raspberry Pi
  art linux
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• Swift System is Now Open Source
  swift
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• My new coding workflow: VS Code + Remote-SSH extension
  go programming
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• Toward a "modern" Emacs
  emacs
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• Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs
  javascript
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 26, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Windows XP source code was allegedly leaked online
  historical osdev
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• Simplicity and Healthy Ecosystems
  philosophy programming
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• Reanimate version 1.0
  haskell
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• Things Elixir's Phoenix Framework Does Right
  elixir web
  Comments
• Finding Goroutine Bugs with TLA+
  formalmethods go
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
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• Out of the Tar Pit: a Summary
  plt practices
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• Properly stopping a SIP flood
  networking
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• FTP Fadeout
  historical networking
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• Hacktoberfest 2020: Lobsters edition
  ask practices
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• On YOLOsec and FOMOsec
  security
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• A modern RISC workstation for a modern (government) era
  hardware
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 25, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A Pipeline Made of Airbags
  devops erlang
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• Reducing mallocs for fun
  c
  Comments
• Biscuit: An OS kernel in a high-level language
  go osdev
  Comments
• Cabin: Creating simple apps for Linux
  programming
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• Enforcing Modularity in Rails Apps with Packwerk
  programming release ruby scaling
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• The Weird Wide Web Of Shortwave Radio
  culture
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• Void Is a Smell
  haskell
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• Rethinking PID 1 (2010)
  linux systemd unix
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• Discovery: User Manual of the Oldest Surviving Computer in the World
  historical
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• Exploiting Tiny Tiny RSS
  php security
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• The Little Printf
  culture
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• Wikipedia is getting a new look for the first time in 10 years. Here’s why
  web
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 24, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Era of Visual Studio Code
  programming
  Comments
• Mathematics for programmers
  pdf book compsci math
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• textfiles.com: An archive of various files from the 1980's
  historical
  Comments
• Second-hand TV wipes out broadband for entire village
  hardware
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• small views of large files
  programming unix
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• Haskell's Children
  haskell rust
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• Clean ALSA documentation
  linux
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• Implementation Challenge: Replacing std::move and std::forward
  c++
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• Don't clone that GUI (how about this instead?)
  practices programming
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• Linux Journal is Back
  linux
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• OMG WTF RS – resources to help you get started with Rust
  rust
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• Using Emacs on Windows with WSL2
  emacs windows
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