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

• Working with strings in Rust
  c rust
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• Stop Using Encrypted Email
  email rant security
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• Rqlite
  databases distributed
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• Racket-on-Chez Status: February 2020
  lisp
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• 500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format
  graphics osdev
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• The Development of the C Language (1993)
  c historical
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• Quibble -- a custom Windows bootloader
  windows
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• Programming metaphors for theological concepts
  databases go javascript philosophy php python rust
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• Agda vs. Coq vs. Idris
  formalmethods plt
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• Floating Point Visually Explained
  programming
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• Why SQLite succeeded as a database with Richard Hipp, creator of SQLite
  audio transcript databases practices
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• Fixing memory leaks in web applications
  performance web
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 20, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Fucking laptops
  hardware rant
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• We decided to leave AWS
  devops email
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• How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet
  networking
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• "Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983"
  historical rant
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• Ubuntu SSH Ads (2018)
  linux privacy
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• Open Offices Inhibit Remote Work
  practices
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• Why designing for open source can be so difficult
  design practices
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• Latinendian vs Arabendian
  programming
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• Challenge: Help the Firefox Graphics team track down an interesting WebRender bug
  browsers debugging
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• Larry Tesler, the Apple employee who invented cut, copy, paste, dies at 74
  design historical person
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• Color Spaces
  design visualization
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• A Simple CPU
  hardware
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 19, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Sherbet: an ergonomic gaming keypad
  hardware
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• Koushin, a simple and extensible webmail client written in Go
  email go web
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• Skyscraper, a Clojure scraping framework that helps you build structured dumps of whole sites
  show clojure release
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• Programmer's critique of missing structure of operating systems
  osdev plt
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• Elixir and Postgres: A Rarely Mentioned Problem
  databases elixir
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• Web Programming in SWI Prolog
  web
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• i3wm 4.18 released
  release
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• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
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• Kickstarter Employees Win Historic Union Election
  culture
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• Devil's Dictionary of Programming
  satire
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• Mining my mailbox for top email service providers
  email
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• How to back up your password manager
  security
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 18, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Computers can be understood
  compsci philosophy
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• Hover a mouse over a link - just don't trust the results
  browsers security
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• cozette -- A bitmap programming font optimized for coziness
  design
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• Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch, by strangling it
  practices programming
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• Why talk about compensation?
  culture
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• tycrek/degoogle - Cutting Google out of your life
  privacy security
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• Pay Up, Or We’ll Make Google Ban Your Ads
  email privacy web
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• South Korea switching their 3.3 million PCs to Linux
  linux
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• What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell 2.5
  haskell
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• Advice about typography when presenting code on a website?
  ask web
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• Thought Experiment: An Introductory Compilers Class
  compilers education
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• Calculating Pi: My attempt at breaking the Pi World Record
  math
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 17, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why Rust
  philosophy rust
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• 3 tribes of programming
  philosophy programming
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• C++20 is Done
  c++ plt
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• I implemented 'defer' for c
  show c
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• A Loveletter to the Atari Lynx
  games historical
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• But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction. (2018)
  video education math
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• Open access journals get a boost from librarians—much to Elsevier’s dismay
  science
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• Ironsides - DNS server made with Ada SPARK
  formalmethods
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• Lingua::Romana::Perligata -- Perl for the XXIimum Century
  perl
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• Experiences moving from tests to strong typing?
  ask programming
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• Situated Software
  practices programming
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• Figuring out RAM and bus timing in a 6502 toy computer
  video hardware
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 16, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Horrifically Dystopian World of Software Engineering Interviews
  practices
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• An app can be a home-cooked meal
  programming
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• CrossHair: A static analysis tool for Python
  formalmethods python
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• What's the best GUI library around?
  ask programming
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• Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD's hypervisor
  openbsd security
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• Category Theory for Programmers, OCaml edition (alpha) is out
  math ml
  Comments
• Windows Terminal Preview v0.9 Release
  windows
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• Crystal 0.33.0 released
  programming
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• Other platforms — The Nokia N9
  historical mobile
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• Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux
  linux
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• Mac malware outpaced Windows PCs threats for first time in 2019, report says
  mac
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• NetBSD 9.0 released with new hypervisor, aarch64, updated ZFS
  netbsd
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 15, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What language do you prefer for new project starts?
  ask programming
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• How to fight back against Google AMP
  rant web
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• OpenSSH 8.2 released
  release
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• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Racket v7.6
  lisp
  Comments
• Mezzano: An operating system written in Common Lisp
  lisp osdev
  Comments
• Creating a Pencil Effect in SVG
  graphics
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• Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)
  mac
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• Standard C function to read lines from a file
  c
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• The Ballot is Busted Before the Blockchain: A Security Analysis of Voatz
  pdf security
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• Spleen 1.7.0 released, now includes OpenType versions
  design release
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• llgo removed from LLVM
  compilers go
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 14, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Sealed Rust Update: The Plan for Safety Critical Rust
  rust
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• Why suckless is wrong (2016)
  linux systemd
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• The web as a GUI toolkit
  web
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• Time safety is more important than memory safety
  plt
  Comments
• Let's Give It a Go
  go
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• MATE 1.24 Released
  release
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• Linux softwares on Windows with Xlaunch and WSL - Artemis
  linux windows
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• Go for Cloud
  distributed go
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• Adventures in Obscure C Features (2020)
  c
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• Why are we so bad at software engineering?
  practices
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• What are some rule of thumbs you discovered yourself?
  ask practices
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• GitHub CLI is now in beta
  vcs
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 13, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• shit -- an implementation of Git using (almost) entirely POSIX shell
  vcs
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• Rotary Cellphone
  art hardware
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• chacha20.sh -- an implementation of ChaCha20 in Bash script
  crypto unix
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• Every Melody Has Been Copyrighted (and they're all on this hard drive)
  video law rust
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• The Best Part of Waking Up, is a Sound Board in Your Cup
  hardware
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• What UX from 1989 can teach us
  design practices web
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• Checksumming in Filesystems and Why ZFS is Doing It Right
  freebsd
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• The Zen of Go
  go
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• Notes on the Go translation of Reposurgeon
  go python
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• On Parallel Programming
  compsci programming
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• The past and the future of hub
  vcs
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• How to start using Python Type Annotations with Mypy
  plt python
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 12, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I was Wrong about Nix
  practices programming
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• Agile as Trauma
  historical practices
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• Oh, don't worry, I've screwed up plenty of things too
  programming
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• Cryptography Dispatches: The Linux CSPRNG Is Now Good
  crypto linux
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• Rob Landley about the /usr split
  historical unix
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• Compiling a Functional Language Using C++, Part 9 - Garbage Collection
  c++ compilers
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• SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
  python
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• Custom GitHub Issue Labels
  practices
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• All Programming Languages are Wrong
  plt
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• Why the Future of Data Storage is (Still) Magnetic Tape (2018)
  databases hardware
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• Manga Guide to Lisp
  education lisp
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• Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2019
  hardware
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