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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 20, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• One of these JPEGs is not like the other
  hardware
  Comments
• In simple English, what does it mean to be transcendental?
  math
  Comments
• elfshaker stores binary objects efficiently
  vcs
  Comments
• Xeact 0.0.69: A Revolutionary Femtoframework For High Efficiency JavaScript Development
  javascript satire web
  Comments
• Launching Fig
  release
  Comments
• Where is Ruby Headed in 2021?
  ruby
  Comments
• Debugging a weird 'file not found' error
  go programming
  Comments
• Context is Everything
  video performance programming
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• semver-explain: convert SemVer requirements into their most-obvious form
  show programming
  Comments
• Talk to Your Robot with Forth (1984)
  programming
  Comments
• Maps with Django (part 2): GeoDjango, PostGIS and Leaflet
  api databases javascript python web
  Comments
• Forth Haiku: An attempt to mix mathematics, art, and the Forth programming language
  art math programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 19, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Yes, PHP is Worth Learning/Using in $CURRENT_YEAR
  php
  Comments
• XMPP, A Comeback Story
  privacy
  Comments
• The utilization of 44/8: the reason I mapped IPv4 & IPv6
  networking
  Comments
• Backdooring Rust crates for fun and profit
  rust security
  Comments
• How we protect our most sensitive secrets from the most determined attackers
  cryptography practices security
  Comments
• epilys/kit-kat: plan9 kit-kat clock framebuffer implementation from scratch
  show rust unix
  Comments
• 100 Years of Erlang
  video elixir erlang
  Comments
• A Simple, Possibly Correct LR Parser for C11
  pdf c compilers
  Comments
• TPM sniffing
  hardware security
  Comments
• What's new in Kotlin 1.6.0
  java
  Comments
• Radxa's Taco - a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4-powered NAS review
  hardware linux
  Comments
• Duff’s device in 2021
  c c++
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 18, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• .plan
  unix
  Comments
• Erlang: The Movie
  video erlang historical
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• Unicast Use of the Formerly Reserved 127/8
  networking
  Comments
• Lark 1.0 released - a parsing toolkit that is friendly, production-ready, and comprehensive
  python
  Comments
• Understanding HKDF
  cryptography
  Comments
• Upcoming/proposed breaking changes to Haskell
  haskell
  Comments
• An introduction to "introduction": a common but rarely-named systems concept
  distributed networking
  Comments
• Security issues related to the npm registry
  security
  Comments
• Enable ASLR by default for 64-bit executables
  freebsd security
  Comments
• Linux has a serious security problem that once again enables DNS cache poisoning
  linux security
  Comments
• Git as a source of truth for network automation
  networking
  Comments
• The Majestic Monolith
  programming scaling
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 17, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Cracking the Adventure Time Cipher
  cryptography reversing
  Comments
• Why Emacs: Redux
  emacs
  Comments
• Some notes on using esbuild
  web
  Comments
• From init.vim to init.lua
  lua vim
  Comments
• A Rough Proposal for Sum Types in Go
  go
  Comments
• Improving the code from the official Go RESTful API tutorial
  go
  Comments
• IoT Nixie Tubes
  hardware networking
  Comments
• Types of parser combinators
  compsci
  Comments
• Looking at 1980's GEM in 2021
  historical
  Comments
• Contributing the Go Compiler: Adding New Tilde (~) Operator
  compilers go
  Comments
• Adventures in Hybrid Rendering
  graphics
  Comments
• Processing billions of events in real time at Twitter
  performance scaling
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 16, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Bramble: A Purely Functional Build System and Package Manager
  go linux
  Comments
• git-branchless: High-velocity, monorepo-scale workflow for Git
  vcs
  Comments
• Selecting a programming language can be a form of premature optimization
  programming
  Comments
• OAuth with Cloudflare Workers on a Statically Generated Site
  javascript
  Comments
• Zen of Nim
  plt programming
  Comments
• WireGuard on FreeBSD Stabilizes, Eyes Upstreaming
  freebsd networking
  Comments
• Developing games in Go for Nintendo Switch
  games go wasm
  Comments
• Syndicated Actors for Conversational Concurrency
  distributed
  Comments
• Future of Ruby – AST Tooling
  ruby
  Comments
• Go 1.18 will let you set the version of the "AMD64" architecture to target
  go performance
  Comments
• Syntax changes for Corinna, proposed declarative OO Perl mechanism
  perl plt
  Comments
• How new-lines affect the Linux kernel performance (2018)
  assembly compilers linux performance
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 15, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Tuple Spaces (or, Good Ideas Don't Always Win) (2011)
  distributed programming
  Comments
• Microdefects
  practices
  Comments
• Fennel 1.0.0 released
  lisp lua release
  Comments
• Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes “2” into my stack?
  debugging
  Comments
• Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos
  hardware historical reversing
  Comments
• Easily build NodeJS projects inside a docker container
  devops practices
  Comments
• Dolphin Progress Report: September and October 2021
  programming
  Comments
• How do hardware timers work?
  video hardware
  Comments
• GitHub - kuroko-lang/kuroko: Dialect of Python with explicit variable declaration and block scoping
  plt programming python
  Comments
• Benchmarking esbuild, swc, tsc, and babel for React/JSX projects
  javascript plt
  Comments
• Cammy
  show art plt
  Comments
• /dev/random - A New Approach
  video cryptography linux
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 14, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The weirdest bug I've ever encountered
  c debugging
  Comments
• Frictionless external backups with systemd
  systemd
  Comments
• Build a Redis Protocol Server with Elixir
  elixir
  Comments
• Infinitely Nested Dictionary
  python
  Comments
• Dangerously user-friendly web server for quick prototyping and hackathons
  show go web
  Comments
• Factor: a dynamic stack-based programming language (2010)
  pdf plt
  Comments
• Rust data structures with circular references
  rust
  Comments
• dte: A language for expressing and calculating date and time
  programming
  Comments
• Macrobrew: Clojure macros distilled
  clojure
  Comments
• Efficient matrix multiplication
  math performance
  Comments
• PCSX2 - The Playstation 2 emulator - Q3 2021 Progress Report
  historical virtualization
  Comments
• Beware of fast-math
  performance programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 13, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Coming Firmware Revolution
  video rust
  Comments
• It's Now Possible To Sign Arbitrary Data With Your SSH Keys
  security
  Comments
• Backpressure And The Replicator
  networking performance
  Comments
• Spotify Codes - Part 2
  programming
  Comments
• Useful sed
  linux programming
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• SDL Next-Gen rendering API
  api c games graphics
  Comments
• Nixers.net Conf 2021
  video event
  Comments
• Blockchain Without the Crypto
  databases
  Comments
• coalton-lang: a statically typed functional programming language that supercharges Common Lisp
  lisp
  Comments
• Ruby vs Python comes down to the for loop
  python ruby
  Comments
• Rusty results
  python
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 12, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Plain Org has joined the chat (iOS)
  show emacs ios
  Comments
• NixOps is easier than I thought
  devops
  Comments
• 10 Image File Formats That Didn’t Make It
  graphics historical
  Comments
• mermaid - Markdownish syntax for generating diagrams
  javascript visualization
  Comments
• Rust Iterator Items: An exploration of syntax
  rust
  Comments
• Permit blocking of view-source: with URLBlocklist
  browsers
  Comments
• What does `&mut &[T]` mean?
  rust
  Comments
• View types for Rust
  rust
  Comments
• America Online Exploits Bug In Own Software (1999)
  historical security
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• The inside story of the outside investigation of SoftRAM 95
  historical reversing windows
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• Haskell IHP Framework, from a Technical and Business Perspective
  haskell web
  Comments
• Using Flutter to build a native-looking desktop app for macOS and Windows
  design programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 11, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Monstrosity Email Has Become
  email
  Comments
• The HTTP QUERY Method
  web
  Comments
• How Nix and NixOS Get So Close to Perfect
  transcript video devops
  Comments
• Alloy 6
  formalmethods release
  Comments
• How To Make A CPU - A Simple Picture Based Explanation
  hardware
  Comments
• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
  book osdev
  Comments
• Samila : A Generative Art Generator
  show art math programming python release
  Comments
• How Python was Shaped by leaky Internals (2016)
  video python
  Comments
• Advice for aspiring bloggers
  practices
  Comments
• Chromium Developer Tools features that shouldn’t be secrets
  web
  Comments
• Cython, Rust, and more: choosing a language for Python extensions
  c c++ python rust
  Comments
• Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies (2017)
  design osdev
  Comments