The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 30, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• It doesn’t matter whether “Matz is nice”
  

  culture ruby
  

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• State of multi-player Wayland
  

  linux
  

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• AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The mean means nothing
  

  performance
  

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• User Interfaces of the Demo Scene
  

  art design
  

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• Writing Toy Software Is A Joy (2025)
  

  programming
  

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• Why Rocq is better than Lean for program verification
  

  compilers formalmethods ml plt
  

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• Manganin: tools matter
  

  vcs zig
  

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• Overengineered calculator: Zig + QBE
  

  compilers zig
  

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• A field day for Gleam’s language server | Gleam v.1.18.0 release
  

  gleam release
  

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• Dependency Cultures - Richard Feldman (Software Should Work Conf 2026)
  

  video practices programming
  

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• Building (systems) software with Nix
  

  nix osdev
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 29, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Inside Zig's Incremental Compilation
  

  compilers performance zig
  

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• Framework 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price
  

  hardware
  

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• Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools With Tcl/Tk
  

  graphics
  

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• Setup a Simple, Self-Hosted Web Server with OpenBSD
  

  openbsd web
  

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• Try the New Firefox Design in Nightly
  

  browsers
  

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• Finding bugs in Raft implementations
  

  distributed testing
  

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• Quick & Easy Parser Combinators
  

  programming
  

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• I Designed A Custom PCB To Avoid Pressing A Button Three Times
  

  c hardware reversing
  

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• Advantages and disadvantages of Windows NT 3.1
  

  historical windows
  

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• Seriously, what is the large code-model even for?
  

  assembly compilers
  

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• Exploiting Volvo/Eicher’s fleet management platform to gain control over all users and vehicles
  

  security
  

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• What even are microservices?
  

  distributed philosophy
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 28, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• On AI
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Blogging Can Just Be Stating The Obvious
  

  education
  

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• Most Googlebots are fake
  

  networking
  

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• How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust Going?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Paged Out - Issue #9
  

  release security
  

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• Open Source Must Be Fun (Or It Will Die)
  

  culture practices
  

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• The Productivity Mirage
  

  practices programming
  

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• What does GitHub’s security team even do?
  

  security vcs
  

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• lobste.rs ~~has~~had a js-error: here is a mitigation
  

  meta javascript
  

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• Xavier Leroy on programming, languages and formal verification
  

  video formalmethods ml
  

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• PGSimCity: How PostgreSQL Works, in 3D
  

  databases
  

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• Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone
  

  hardware
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 27, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Memory Safety Absolutists
  

  c rust zig
  

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• Maybe we should revisit microkernels
  

  osdev
  

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• How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer
  

  practices
  

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• General Resolution: LLM usage in Debian
  

  culture linux vibecoding
  

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• Emacs Writing Machine
  

  emacs linux
  

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• Teaching Kids Forth
  

  concatenative education
  

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• How to self-host servers in your living room on static IPs
  

  networking
  

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• Himalaya v2.0.0: CLI to manage emails
  

  email release rust vibecoding
  

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• Verse: A New Scripting Language
  

  video logiclangs plt
  

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• I'm running the ICFP programming contest
  

  event programming
  

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• Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY Actually Scales
  

  databases
  

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• Delightful integration tests in Rust
  

  rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 26, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Chrome registers a global shortcut for Gemini popup window
  

  browsers mac windows
  

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• A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway
  

  programming
  

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• Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap
  

  dotnet go performance
  

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• stinkpot: sqlite-backed shell history
  

  show go
  

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• Zig by Example
  

  zig
  

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• Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB, Affecting Shizuku, libadb and Developers
  

  android
  

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• We Are Not Special (2021)
  

  practices
  

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• Your harddrive is probably full
  

  culture performance practices
  

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• Interview with a Maintainer
  

  satire
  

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• git rebase -i is not that scary
  

  vcs
  

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• Systems and Delays (2026)
  

  math
  

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• the perils of parsing type inference declarations in c
  

  c
  

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