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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 20, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Firefox Was Always Enough
  browsers
  Comments
• Modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces
  api compsci historical
  Comments
• I bought Apple Silicon
  mac
  Comments
• Why My Tweets are Ephemeral
  go programming
  Comments
• Bouncy Castle crypto authentication bypass vulnerability revealed
  java security
  Comments
• Crashing Squeak Smalltalk is easy—or is it?
  security
  Comments
• Astropanel - Astronomy program for the terminal
  release science
  Comments
• ZimaBoard - A $70 Single Board Home Server
  hardware linux
  Comments
• The Psion Organiser II: laying the groundwork of our smartphone world
  historical mobile
  Comments
• The Legend of Zelda Speedrun Explained
  video reversing
  Comments
• Re-Deriving the edwards25519 Decoding Formulas
  crypto
  Comments
• C and the dangers of memcpy()
  c
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 19, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why Is Your NES A TV Station?
  video hardware
  Comments
• doggo - Command-line DNS Client
  show networking
  Comments
• rosen: censorship-resistant proxy tunnel
  show go security
  Comments
• Go 1.16 Beta 1 is released
  go release
  Comments
• Computing Euclidean distance on 144 dimensions
  assembly compsci performance
  Comments
• The Debian web updates its homepage and prepares for a major renewal
  linux
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Jujube: an experimental VCS inspired by Mercurial and git
  vcs
  Comments
• Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems
  security
  Comments
• If considered harmful: How to eradicate 95% of all your bugs in one simple step
  video programming
  Comments
• Getting Started with Windows Terminal
  windows
  Comments
• Smalltalk Zoo: Stories and simulations around the evolution of Smalltalk
  historical
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 18, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The architecture of IMGZ
  programming web
  Comments
• Torus Trooper - old-school 3D shooter, written in D 15 years ago
  show d wasm
  Comments
• Rust Survey 2020 Results
  rust
  Comments
• Kate is 20 years old
  release
  Comments
• The 100 Year Computer
  programming
  Comments
• How do I design a system to process messages sequentially
  ask distributed go
  Comments
• No cookie for you
  law privacy release
  Comments
• 51% of 4M Docker images have critical vulnerabilities
  security virtualization
  Comments
• COVID-19 Teaching Experience: 17-313 Foundations of Software Engineering at CMU
  education
  Comments
• My Nextcloud setup
  devops linux
  Comments
• FreeBSD src repo transitioning from Subversion to Git this weekend
  freebsd vcs
  Comments
• Scala 3 – Crossing the finish line
  scala
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 17, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• On the Graying of GNOME
  linux visualization
  Comments
• Machine learning could be fundamentally unexplainable
  ai
  Comments
• Static calls in Linux 5.10
  assembly c linux
  Comments
• Inspecting the Contents of a Ruby Gem
  ruby
  Comments
• GTK 4.0
  linux release
  Comments
• History of programming languages concepts
  plt
  Comments
• bspwm: a tiling window manager representing windows as leaves of a binary tree
  graphics
  Comments
• Plotting patterns in music with a fantasy record player
  art
  Comments
• The Embarrassing State of Enterprise ACME Support
  devops security
  Comments
• Coreutils Gotchas
  linux unix
  Comments
• It’s not legacy code — it’s PHP
  php
  Comments
• Getting Started With Nix
  devops linux
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 16, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Shitlist Driven Development (2016)
  practices
  Comments
• Pointers Are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs
  compsci
  Comments
• SuperRT - Realtime raytracing on the SNES
  graphics hardware
  Comments
• The Zen of index.html
  javascript web
  Comments
• My evolution writing JSON-REST APIs
  python
  Comments
• Writing a Parser Combinator
  compsci haskell
  Comments
• Why XML Security is Broken (2004)
  programming security
  Comments
• Adding BPF target support to the Rust compiler
  rust
  Comments
• Announcing General Availability of HashiCorp Nomad 1.0
  devops distributed
  Comments
• Welcome Yari: MDN Web Docs has a new platform
  web
  Comments
• Do not use Syncthing
  programming rant
  Comments
• CloudLinux promises a CentOS Replacement
  linux
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 15, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The antisocial laptop [2019]
  debugging hardware
  Comments
• The case of extra 40 ms
  debugging
  Comments
• Why I still use D
  d
  Comments
• Results and their interpretation for the First Kakoune Community Survey
  philosophy unix
  Comments
• Minimal safe Bash script template
  unix
  Comments
• Linux 5.10
  linux
  Comments
• About Cyberpunk 2077 and AMD CPUs
  reversing
  Comments
• 5 lines I put in a blank .vimrc
  vim
  Comments
• The cleverest floppy disc protection ever? Western Security Ltd
  hardware historical security
  Comments
• A defer mechanism for C
  c
  Comments
• Diving into Firecracker with Alpine
  linux virtualization
  Comments
• Unbound Pi-hole without scripts
  networking
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 14, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• if...then...else had to be invented
  historical
  Comments
• The state of linux debuggers
  debugging linux
  Comments
• Chrome Keystone impact on performance
  browsers performance
  Comments
• Small tech
  historical
  Comments
• Activity of an idle PC Windows10 versus OpenBSD
  networking openbsd
  Comments
• Use polling for resiliency
  formalmethods
  Comments
• Working from home at 25MHz: You could do worse than a Quadra 700 (even in 2020)
  compsci hardware historical
  Comments
• Zig 0.7.1 Released - 69 bugs fixed
  release zig
  Comments
• Review: Keyboardio Atreus
  hardware
  Comments
• Starting with FreeBSD jails
  freebsd
  Comments
• Is C++ type-safe? (There’s two right answers)
  c++
  Comments
• ARM MacBook vs Intel MacBook: a SIMD benchmark
  performance
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 13, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Do You Have Any Offline Programming Techniques or Tools?
  ask practices
  Comments
• Become shell literate
  linux
  Comments
• Christine Dodrill: ex-SRE, Lightspeed
  audio devops person
  Comments
• Aiming for correctness with types
  rust
  Comments
• CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course
  compilers
  Comments
• More batteries included with emacs
  emacs
  Comments
• Did Dream Fake His Speedruns
  pdf video java science
  Comments
• ARM MacBook vs Intel MacBook
  mac
  Comments
• How the message 340 of the Zodiac Killer was cracked
  video crypto
  Comments
• Reverse Engineering the TP-Link HS110
  hardware reversing
  Comments
• How the Slowest Computer Programs Illuminate Math’s Fundamental Limits
  compsci math
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments

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

• kubectl create pizza
  devops
  Comments
• Understanding Partial Moves in Rust
  c++ programming rust
  Comments
• Cameras and Lenses
  art science
  Comments
• Precursor - What’s the Value of Hackable Hardware, Anyway?
  a11y hardware
  Comments
• Migrating from Google Music to Navidrome on Kubernetes
  linux
  Comments
• Implementing Rust's dbg! in Python
  debugging python
  Comments
• FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin: Final Milestone Achieved
  debugging freebsd
  Comments
• Rust Iterator Cheat Sheet
  rust
  Comments
• Meli, a Netlify-like platform for deploying static sites
  devops web
  Comments
• Librem 5 Evergreen vs. Pinephone
  mobile
  Comments
• Portability of tar features
  unix
  Comments
• Optimizing for the wrong metric, part 1: Microsoft Word
  cogsci practices
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 11, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A former Uber engineer's disaster story
  ios programming
  Comments
• Bitmasks for nicer APIs
  go programming
  Comments
• Rocky: OS compatible with RHEL by the founder of CentOS
  linux
  Comments
• Deno 1.6 Release Notes
  nodejs release
  Comments
• Dolphin Emulator Progress Report October & November
  games
  Comments
• Writing a Wayland Compositor in Zig
  video zig
  Comments
• Hugo on Apple M1
  go mac
  Comments
• awesome-emulators: A curated list of awesome Open Source Emulators
  games programming
  Comments
• Why Rust is meant to replace C
  c rust
  Comments
• Advanced 6502 Assembly Programming for the Apple II
  video assembly
  Comments
• WebAssembly as Meta-Language
  plt wasm
  Comments
• Intercepting system calls to fix broken software
  mac reversing
  Comments