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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 23, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Stack Overflow Antipattern
  education practices
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• Why I’m Switching from Figma to Microsoft Paint
  design satire
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• DOS Subsystem for Linux
  linux
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• The most important feature of Sublime Text
  programming
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• The unrealized potential of federation
  networking
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• dstask: Single binary terminal-based TODO manager with git-based sync + markdown notes per task
  show go
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• Introducing Swift on Windows
  swift windows
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• Maybe don’t write off Scala just yet
  scala
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• Exceptions as control flow
  debugging python
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• Un-obscuring a few GHC type error messages
  haskell
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• More on git
  vcs
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• dosemu2: Run DOS programs under Linux
  historical linux osdev
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 22, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• On the use of a life
  crypto freebsd person
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• Why Not Rust?
  rust
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• Simple Anomaly Detection Using Plain SQL
  databases
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• Is it possible to hide all "What are you doing this XXX" threads?
  meta
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• My Least Favorite Rust Type
  rust
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• scalar: A small chat protocol, inspired by Gemini
  show networking release
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• Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is a circuit switched computer network
  hardware
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• In the computer
  haskell programming
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• Creating a Home IPv6 Network
  linux networking
  Comments
• Plan 9 rides again; WSL file access
  linux osdev windows
  Comments
• Evening Project: A Crystal based super fast visitor counter
  programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 21, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Apple Notes Protobuf
  ios reversing
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• uMatrix development has ended
  browsers privacy web
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• LLVM's getelementptr, by example
  assembly c compilers
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• Raspberry Pi USB Boot - UASP, TRIM, and performance
  hardware
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• Git Internals - Learn by Building Your Own Git
  python vcs
  Comments
• A simple Parser Combinator library in Idris
  plt
  Comments
• A Syntax for Self-Tracking
  practices science vim
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• We need physical audio kill switches
  hardware rant
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• Git-cu, a tool to help keep your Git clones organized
  python vcs
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• organice (Org mode for mobile devices and the browser) renders clickable links automatically
  emacs
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• Soupault 2.0.0 release
  show ml web
  Comments
• Go vs. Rust for back-end development
  ask go rust
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 20, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• TL;DR Rust
  go rust
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• Don't hate the book because you don't use it
  book programming
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• Coding by voice in Zig
  video a11y
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• Why Rust is not a mature programming language
  rant rust
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• Learning the Ink Programming Language
  plt programming
  Comments
• Pizzly - an open-source API Integrations Manager
  show api
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• Meta: could we consider banning self-promotion?
  meta
  Comments
• Monitoring my home network
  networking
  Comments
• Dogelang: it's a Python! No, it's a Haskell
  plt python
  Comments
• rg3d: Rust 3D game engine with an FPS demo game and scene editor
  games rust
  Comments
• Precursor - Mobile, Open-Hardware, RISC-V System-on-Chip Development Kit
  hardware security
  Comments
• How I bypassed Cloudflare's SQL Injection filter
  databases security
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 19, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Backing up data like the adult I supposedly am
  unix
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• BQN: finally, an APL for your flying saucer
  apl
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• How to NEVER use lambdas - Python 3 edition
  python
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• My Favorite Rust Function Signature
  rust
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• 9 Year Homelab history in pictures
  hardware
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• My Principles for Building Software
  practices
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• Higher-order functions are like inheritance
  programming
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• A near impossible guessing game of tech through the decades
  hardware
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• TeXMe - Self-Rendering Markdown and LaTeX Documents
  show javascript math web
  Comments
• From YAGNI to YDNIY
  practices
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• How to be helpful online
  practices
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 18, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• 433% Keyboard
  hardware
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• Toward a Technological Cage for the Masses
  historical philosophy
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• GitHub CLI 1.0 released
  vcs
  Comments
• Nova
  mac release
  Comments
• Project Oberon
  compilers hardware osdev programming
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• Review of home manager
  devops linux
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• NuttX
  osdev
  Comments
• Reverse engineering the Logitech Harmony
  debugging hardware reversing security
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• Cleaning $HOME on macOS
  mac practices
  Comments
• Type-checker Spell-checker
  javascript
  Comments
• Swift 5.3 released
  release swift
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• My Favourite Email Prank (2010)
  email
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 17, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number
  privacy security
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• Search and replace tricks with ripgrep
  linux programming unix
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• Challenging LR Parsing
  compilers compsci
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• Material Shell - A new desktop experience
  design
  Comments
• Java 15: New and Notable
  java release
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• Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches for a 'complete virtualization stack' with Linux and Hyper-V
  linux virtualization
  Comments
• KISS for IRC, a tiny IRC client written in POSIX C99
  c
  Comments
• Super Mario Bros. 3 in 3 minutes - World Record Speedrun Explained
  video assembly games reversing
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• Introducing Pebble: A RocksDB Inspired Key-Value Store Written in Go
  databases
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• The missing OS
  osdev
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• Why I write recursive descent parsers (despite their issues)
  compilers
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• Whiley is Ten Years Old
  compilers formalmethods javascript programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 16, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Statement Regarding the Zen Programming Language - Zig
  law
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• Which Parsing Approach?
  compilers compsci
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• Rewriting the Technical Interview
  lisp programming
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• Org 9.4 is out. Can you help?
  emacs release
  Comments
• Moment.js Project Status
  javascript
  Comments
• Emacs Prelude 1.0
  emacs release
  Comments
• Your Language Sucks, It Doesn’t Matter
  programming rant
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• Self-organising teams
  practices
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• C11 and C17 Standard Support Arriving in MSVC
  c
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• tmpmail: A temporary email right from your terminal
  linux unix
  Comments
• A general definition of dependent type theories
  plt
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• yarr: yet another rss reader
  web
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 15, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• wren - a classy little scripting language
  programming
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• Did You Know Fonts Could Do All This?
  unix
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• spawnfest/bakeware - Compile Elixir applications into single, easily distributed executable binaries
  elixir erlang
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• Why putting SSH on another port than 22 is bad idea (2012)
  security
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• Data-Oriented Design Book Review
  c++ performance
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• The compositor is evil
  a11y graphics historical performance
  Comments
• Wootbook / Tongfang laptop
  hardware linux
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• Launching the 2020 State of Rust Survey
  rust
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• Deno 1.4 Release Notes
  javascript release
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• What storage platforms do you use to for pictures or storing family stuff
  ask programming
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• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
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• Semantic Import Versioning is unsound
  go
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 14, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• C’s Biggest Mistake (2009)
  c programming
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• OpenPGP in Rust: the Sequoia project
  crypto rust
  Comments
• The State of SwiftUI
  mac swift
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• My submissions for r2wars 2020
  assembly games
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• How does `who` work on Linux?
  linux
  Comments
• Opera Unite tried decentralizing the web ten years ago (2019)
  historical
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• How to Plan a Luau: Augmenting Lua’s Syntax With Types
  lua plt
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• The C++ Bestiary
  c++
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• How do you reason about a probabilistic distributed system?
  distributed formalmethods
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• UMASH: a fast and universal enough hash
  math
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• What should I do after getting my (first) own new Macbook?
  ask mac practices unix
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• FPGA based mobile phone: Creating a truly open and trustable mobile communications device (2019)
  video hardware security
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