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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 19, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Advanced Git Features You Didn’t Know You Needed
  vcs
  Comments
• v0.14 of Gleam, a type safe language for the Erlang VM, has been released
  erlang plt release
  Comments
• Announcing .NET 6 Preview 1
  dotnet programming
  Comments
• Enums are coming to PHP 8.1
  php
  Comments
• List of services offering free tiers to developers
  devops
  Comments
• Things You Should Do Now, from the Phabricator authors
  programming
  Comments
• Chrome RAM/CPU usage vs. Safari vs. Flotato
  browsers performance
  Comments
• Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: Tri-Color Mark and Sweep
  ruby
  Comments
• min language - Welcome to the min programming language
  plt
  Comments
• How to process large amounts of data in Elixir with Ecto
  elixir
  Comments
• Program Comprehension and Code Complexity Metrics: An fMRI Study
  pdf programming science
  Comments
• A more secure bundler: We fixed our source priorities
  ruby security
  Comments

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

• Nx (Numerical Elixir) is now publicly available
  elixir release
  Comments
• Functorio
  games plt programming
  Comments
• Bitbanged DVI on the RP2040 Microcontroller
  hardware
  Comments
• Why you really need to upgrade pip
  python
  Comments
• bug-reference-mode
  emacs
  Comments
• Lessons learned from a 27 years old UNIX book
  book historical unix
  Comments
• How Materialize and other databases optimize SQL subqueries
  databases performance
  Comments
• Simple Forth
  compsci
  Comments
• Java 16 gets records: JEP 395
  java plt
  Comments
• The CSS File Size and Count Report for Premier League sites
  web
  Comments
• Escapology: how, when and why to encode and escape
  security web
  Comments
• Building a High Performance Text Editor
  performance
  Comments

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

• Experiencing Smalltalk
  programming
  Comments
• All about thread-local storage
  c compilers programming
  Comments
• Starting a GNU Screen session via SSH's ~/.ssh/config
  linux
  Comments
• Earley Parser
  compilers education python
  Comments
• Program = Proof
  pdf formalmethods math plt
  Comments
• FPGA NTP Server
  hardware performance
  Comments
• Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time
  debugging performance windows
  Comments
• Why Is Naming Things Hard?
  practices programming
  Comments
• Go 1.16 is released
  go release
  Comments
• fileweight — How much does a file weigh
  programming
  Comments
• Building Rich terminal dashboards
  design python
  Comments
• FreeBSD and I2C
  freebsd
  Comments

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

• The Worst Experience I've Had With an aarch64 MacBook
  mac
  Comments
• Software Architecture: How You Make Them Care
  practices
  Comments
• NattyNarwhal/LobstersNntp: Lobsters NNTP gateway
  show elixir networking
  Comments
• How we hosted FOSDEM 2021 on Matrix
  event
  Comments
• Database as a Queue
  databases
  Comments
• Typing is Hard
  plt
  Comments
• A lightweight metrics explorer for Prometheus, with a focus on on-the-fly analysis
  devops release
  Comments
• The Therac-25 Incident
  historical
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Many Small Queries Are Efficient In SQLite (2016?)
  databases
  Comments
• ghostwriter: distraction-free Markdown editor, supports light/dark themes, live preview, export, etc
  linux windows
  Comments
• Make the BeBox great again: TLS 1.2, inetd and more for PowerPC BeOS R5
  historical networking
  Comments

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

• Running Nomad for home server
  devops
  Comments
• The GitHub Action mining attack through Pull Request
  vcs
  Comments
• Racket v8.0
  lisp release
  Comments
• Display connectors in networking equipment
  hardware
  Comments
• The Database Inside Your Codebase
  programming
  Comments
• S.O.L.I.D. principles around you (2017)
  programming
  Comments
• Python “tricks” I can not live without
  python
  Comments
• Chinese Supply-Chain Attack on Computer Systems
  hardware security
  Comments
• PyO3 to support Rust 1.41 to support Python's cryptography package
  python rust
  Comments
• The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook
  programming security windows
  Comments
• The history of trackers
  art compsci historical
  Comments
• A Visual Git Reference
  vcs visualization
  Comments

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

• Why no one should use the AT&T syntax ever, for any reason, under any circumstances
  assembly practices rant
  Comments
• Alternative Shells
  unix
  Comments
• Ditherpunk 2 — beyond 1-bit
  design go
  Comments
• A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra
  math
  Comments
• Why Wasn't Ruby 3 Faster?
  performance ruby
  Comments
• A Trip into FreeBSD
  freebsd
  Comments
• Tensorflow for Swift has been Deprecated
  ai swift
  Comments
• Small objects and pointer tagging
  c performance plt
  Comments
• ATS or Why Linear Types are the Future of Systems Programming
  video plt
  Comments
• SVG: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  graphics
  Comments
• ratfactor/ziglings - Learn zig by fixing little broken programs
  zig
  Comments
• Kinvolk: Introducing gobpf - Using eBPF from Go
  go networking
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 13, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why I Built Litestream
  databases
  Comments
• Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel
  debugging linux networking
  Comments
• A crash course on running your own servers with a shoestring budget
  hardware
  Comments
• The web didn't change; you did
  rant web
  Comments
• I have no name, and I must recurse
  python
  Comments
• Updates to the Oil FAQ
  programming unix
  Comments
• SerenityOS - Writing a full chain exploit
  osdev security
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Creating an Always On E-Ink Org Agenda
  emacs hardware
  Comments
• The Future of Operating Systems
  osdev
  Comments
• Self-Organising Textures
  ai compsci visualization
  Comments
• The Wayland Protocol
  graphics
  Comments

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

• Pattern matching accepted for Python
  python
  Comments
• Beej's Guide to Network Programming
  c networking
  Comments
• Babbage was a true genius
  assembly historical
  Comments
• Comparison of Rust async and Linux thread context switch time and memory use
  performance
  Comments
• Announcing Rust 1.50.0
  rust
  Comments
• FreeBSD 13 BETA Benchmarks - Performance Is Much Better
  freebsd performance
  Comments
• 6 ways to log ineffectively
  debugging practices programming testing
  Comments
• Better BASHing Through Technology
  programming unix
  Comments
• Ambiguous Timezone Abbreviations
  linux mac
  Comments
• The Newspeak Programming Language
  programming
  Comments
• For The Love Of All That's Holy, Use CCL To Control Complexity In Your Systems
  philosophy practices programming
  Comments
• system76/launch keyboard
  hardware
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 11, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies
  security
  Comments
• I don't want to do front-end anymore
  javascript programming rant web
  Comments
• I'm tired of this anti-Rust horseshit
  rant rust satire
  Comments
• Haskell: The Bad Parts, part 3
  haskell
  Comments
• Toolchains.net - A collection of toolchain resources
  c c++ compilers debugging
  Comments
• Adding a minimal foreign function interface to your language
  compilers python
  Comments
• -XFunctorialDo
  haskell
  Comments
• The PowerPC AS Tagged Memory Extensions
  hardware
  Comments
• A small regex implementation in C in less than 600 LOC
  c programming scaling
  Comments
• Windows CE History: A Diminutive Stage for Microsoft’s Grand Ambitions
  historical mobile windows
  Comments
• Setting up a CI system part 1: Preparing your test machines
  hardware linux testing
  Comments
• Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code
  hardware science
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 10, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Crackpot Cryptography and Security Theater
  crypto science
  Comments
• Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform
  hardware
  Comments
• Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a new type of computer
  linux lisp osdev
  Comments
• Sunsetting PHP Faker
  php release
  Comments
• All Pythons are slow, but some are faster than others
  performance python
  Comments
• cURL supports rustls
  networking rust
  Comments
• Why is SQL so successful?
  ask databases
  Comments
• How much are non x86/arm platforms used?
  ask hardware programming
  Comments
• Madaidan's Insecurities
  linux security
  Comments
• Computer intruder tried to poison Florida city’s drinking water with lye
  security
  Comments
• Browser fuzzing at Mozilla
  security
  Comments
• ReactOS Newsletter: January 2021
  osdev
  Comments