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

• Fontemon - World's first video game in a font
  games
  Comments
• Rust support in linux-next.git
  linux rust
  Comments
• Going all-in with Ada: a manifesto
  programming
  Comments
• The biggest threat to Rust's sustainability
  rust
  Comments
• Linus Torvalds on how AMD and Intel are changing how processor interrupts are handled
  hardware osdev
  Comments
• Continuous Typography
  css visualization
  Comments
• Cookie Consent Speed Run
  privacy satire
  Comments
• A Directory of Personal Blogs, includes search option
  programming
  Comments
• Linux perf Examples
  linux performance
  Comments
• chibicc - A small C compiler
  c compilers
  Comments
• Rust async is colored, and that’s not a big deal
  rust
  Comments
• A few notes on message passing
  erlang
  Comments

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

• Why use old computers and operating systems?
  historical
  Comments
• Building a shared vision for Async Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Stealing arbitrary GitHub Actions secrets
  security
  Comments
• JEP 402: Unify the Basic Primitives with Objects (Preview)
  java
  Comments
• Algebraic Graphs with Class
  pdf haskell
  Comments
• Wayland in 2021
  linux
  Comments
• Fancy defines
  lisp
  Comments
• Attackers are trying awfully hard to backdoor iOS developers’ Macs
  ios mac security
  Comments
• Q&A with John Kozubik, rsync.net
  freebsd person practices unix
  Comments
• Build and run GTK 4 applications with Visual Studio
  c++ windows
  Comments
• manim: animation engine for explanatory math videos
  math python
  Comments
• A curated list of awesome, language-agnostic WebAssembly tools
  performance reversing security wasm
  Comments

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

• GitHub, f*ck your name change
  culture rant
  Comments
• frawk, a JITted and SIMD-optimized AWK written in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Illegal content and the blockchain
  cryptocurrencies law
  Comments
• Remote X has been a life saver over this past year
  networking
  Comments
• runj is Experimental Proof of Concept OCI Compatible Runtime for FreeBSD Jails
  freebsd
  Comments
• How C++ Resolves a Function Call
  c++
  Comments
• Robust Soldier Crab Ball Gate
  pdf hardware
  Comments
• Unironically Using Kubernetes for my Personal Blog
  devops
  Comments
• 17 (ever so slightly) weird facts about the most popular dictionary format
  python reversing
  Comments
• Writing Small CLI Programs in Common Lisp
  linux lisp
  Comments
• SQLAlchemy 1.4.0 Released
  databases python
  Comments
• Charts CSS
  css visualization
  Comments

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

• Chicken Story
  programming reversing
  Comments
• sd: my script directory
  programming unix
  Comments
• Why Senior Engineers Hate Coding Interviews
  practices
  Comments
• totally_safe_transmute, line-by-line
  compilers rust
  Comments
• Adobe Goes After 27-Year Old 'Pirated' Copy of Acrobat Reader 1.0 for MS-DOS
  law
  Comments
• Why We Don’t Use Docker (We Don’t Need It)
  devops
  Comments
• Learning About ELF With Zig
  zig
  Comments
• WireGuard for FreeBSD in development for 13.y – and a note of how we got here
  freebsd security
  Comments
• FreeBSD 13.0: Full Desktop Experience
  freebsd
  Comments
• Exploring my doorbell
  reversing
  Comments
• What to look for in Fedora Workstation 34
  linux
  Comments
• What I've Learned From 10+ Years of Personal Projects and Startups
  show programming
  Comments

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

• Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust
  c go performance python rust
  Comments
• The Nokia N900: the future that wasn’t
  historical linux mobile
  Comments
• User IDs probably shouldn't be passed around as ints (2018)
  distributed security
  Comments
• How to Read ARM64 Assembly Language
  assembly
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Text Adventures: how Twine remade gaming
  games
  Comments
• Bresenham's Circle Drawing Algorithm
  graphics math
  Comments
• C++ killed the get & set accessors
  c++
  Comments
• CSS property usage in the wild updated by Google every 24 hours
  web
  Comments
• Why Programmers Should(n't) Learn Theory
  formalmethods plt
  Comments
• GitUI anniversary release v0.13
  release rust vcs
  Comments
• What's your experience been writing language tools ?
  ask plt
  Comments

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

• Why are Climate models written in programming languages from 1950?
  fortran science
  Comments
• Resurrecting Fortran
  fortran
  Comments
• Mage is My Favorite Make
  go programming
  Comments
• Reinventing tabs
  design
  Comments
• Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil
  practices
  Comments
• The Hindley-Milner Type System
  video plt
  Comments
• I wrote one of the fastest DataFrame libraries
  performance rust
  Comments
• How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?
  math
  Comments
• Learning without Burnout
  programming
  Comments
• Reverse Engineering of Intel Microcode Update Structure
  reversing
  Comments
• Czkawka - Simple/Fast/Easy App to Find/Remove Unnecessary Files
  freebsd linux mac
  Comments
• UserLand Frontier Open Source Release
  programming
  Comments

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

• What’s new in SQLite 3.35
  databases release
  Comments
• Speed of Rust vs C
  c rust
  Comments
• Why I don’t ‘do’ Arduino
  c++ hardware
  Comments
• Do you know of resources like rubykoans or ziglings for other languages?
  ask programming
  Comments
• 7-Zip, the open source file archiver, is now available for Linux
  c linux release
  Comments
• An Object-Oriented Language for the '20s
  plt
  Comments
• RegEx Crossword
  programming
  Comments
• On OCaml and the JS platform
  ml
  Comments
• C’s removal of gets could have been done better
  c
  Comments
• List of split keyboards
  hardware
  Comments
• Make your intercom smarter with an MQTT backpack
  hardware
  Comments
• Performance differences between Postgres and MySQL
  databases distributed performance
  Comments

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

• Goroutines Are Not Significantly Lighter Than Threads
  go linux performance
  Comments
• Understanding Extended-Nonce Constructions
  crypto security
  Comments
• qutebrowser v2.1.0
  browsers release
  Comments
• Why is the quality of code autocomplete so low?
  ask practices
  Comments
• Nix Flakes, Part 1: An introduction and tutorial
  linux
  Comments
• Algebra and Data Types
  plt rust
  Comments
• A Spectre proof-of-concept for a Spectre-proof web
  browsers security
  Comments
• The Mu Micro Virtual Machine Project
  compsci plt virtualization
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Format /etc/fstab files automatically
  go linux unix
  Comments
• An Interview with Cadey Ratio
  person
  Comments
• Wasm3 engine v0.4.9 - tracing of wasm/WASI execution flow, new API, Python 3 integration
  release wasm
  Comments

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

• netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Go
  go
  Comments
• How I earn a living selling my open source software
  person
  Comments
• Rust's async isn't f#@king colored
  rant rust
  Comments
• No Gates, No Keepers
  culture rant
  Comments
• Mac upgrade opened sshd to brute force password attacks
  security
  Comments
• Bitcoin and other PoW coins are an ESG nightmare
  cryptocurrencies
  Comments
• Building a Zoom Mute Button
  hardware
  Comments
• Go Developer Survey 2020 Results
  go
  Comments
• Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
  programming
  Comments
• Routing the technical interview
  distributed
  Comments
• Multicore OCaml: February 2021
  ml
  Comments
• The Story of Ping (1999)
  networking
  Comments

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

• fire in OVH cloud datacenter - complete dc lost
  event
  Comments
• Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work
  practices programming rant rust
  Comments
• Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
  privacy web
  Comments
• git: malicious repositories can execute remote code while cloning
  security vcs
  Comments
• Intel NUC as a backend for development
  hardware
  Comments
• Staying out of TTL hell
  programming scaling web
  Comments
• Actors
  swift
  Comments
• Compressing data with Parquet
  databases performance
  Comments
• Why Your Company's Documentation Sucks
  practices rant
  Comments
• Zig, Parser Combinators - and Why They're Awesome
  zig
  Comments
• User-defined type guards in TypeScript
  javascript
  Comments
• Write libraries instead of services, where possible
  api practices
  Comments