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

• Style Stage: A New CSS Zen Garden
  css design
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• comparative unsafety
  go rust
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• Http.rb is Great (2018)
  ruby
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• Using a Yubikey as a touchless, magic unlock key for Linux
  linux
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• Configuration files and .d directories
  linux practices
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• How Purism avoids Intel's Active Management Technology
  hardware
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• A 35-year-old bug in patch found in efforts to restore 29 year old 2.11BSD
  historical
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• I wrote the world's worst text editor (so you don't have to)
  c
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• Technology in Intimate Partner Violence Bibliography
  privacy security
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• LibreSSL documentation status update
  openbsd
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• Handmade Hero
  games performance
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• TruffleSqueak: Polyglot Programming with Squeak/Smalltalk and GraalVM
  java javascript programming python ruby
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 17, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The BEAM Has Spoiled Me
  distributed elixir erlang
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• Idris 2 version 0.2.1 Released
  plt release
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• The Mutt E-Mail Client celebrates 25 years
  email
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• Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You
  api practices programming rant
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• Hello "Hello world!"
  assembly c programming
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• Python 3.8 Makes me Sad Again
  python rant
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• Write your Own Virtual Machine
  programming
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• What I’ve learned about scaling OSPF in Datacenters
  networking
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• A Review of Paul Graham's Bel, Chris Granger's Eve, and a Silly VR Rant
  lisp plt programming
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• Hiding messages in x86 binaries using semantic duals
  assembly rust security
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• Parse, don't validate — Elixir edition, Part Two
  elixir practices
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• Where is your notebook?
  practices programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 16, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Taking my home work setup seriously: ergonomics and settling in for the long haul
  hardware
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• An Introduction to OpenBSD
  openbsd
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• Types as axioms, or: playing god with static types (2020)
  haskell plt programming
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• Don't design for mobile
  design mobile
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• Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995)
  pdf distributed osdev
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• Split files into encrypted segments
  security
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• HardenedBSD August 2020 Status Report and Call for Donations
  freebsd
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• Using an old BlackBerry as a portable SSH (or Telnet) terminal
  hardware
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• Vale is a linter for prose
  ai practices
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• xi-editor
  rust swift
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• JavaScript for impatient programmers (ES2020 edition)
  javascript
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• Yatta Language - ML like language on the GraalVM
  compilers java ml plt
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 15, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• In search of the perfect pocket device
  android linux mobile ruby vim
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• I am a Java, C#, C or C++ developer, time to do some Rust
  rust
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• Frustrated? It's not you, it's Rust
  rust
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• What's new in PHP 8
  php programming release
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• Open Standards Are Simple
  programming
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• Canarytokens: Token Anything, Anywhere
  security
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• NSA discloses new Russian-made Drovorub malware targeting Linux
  linux security
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
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• libvips: fast image processing library with low memory needs
  graphics programming
  Comments
• Sinter: New user-mode security enforcement for macOS
  mac security
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• "Structural pattern matching" for Python, part 1
  python
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• J Notation as a Tool of Thought
  apl
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 14, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• gitoxide: pure rust implementation of git
  rust vcs
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• "Rust does not have a stable ABI"
  rust
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• Web browsers need to stop
  browsers rant
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• The Art of PostgreSQL
  book databases
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• Can we do better than our C compiler?
  assembly
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• Proposal: Register-based Go calling convention
  compilers go
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• Generative Art with CSS
  art css
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• eBPF
  linux
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• Data Structures Part 1: Bulk Data
  c performance
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• IBM DOS 1.00 - Forensic Examination
  historical
  Comments
• Stopping phishing campaigns with bash
  privacy
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• rd is a record/replay debugger written in rust
  debugging rust
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 13, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Go 1.15 is released
  go release
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• File handling in Unix: tips, traps and outright badness
  unix
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• Handles are the better pointers
  c c++
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• How Go 1.15 improved converting small integer values to interfaces
  go
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• Rusty's API Design Manifesto
  api
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• Django Views — The Right Way
  python web
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• Ubuntu on WSL 2 Is Generally Available
  linux windows
  Comments
• The Least Liked Programming Languages
  programming
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• probe.rs: a modern, embedded debugging toolkit, written in Rust
  debugging rust
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• The influence of hardware on Firefox build times
  performance
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• The easiest way to create your own Nix channel
  devops
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• A Nix overlay for Emacs 27 with the 'emacs-mac' patches
  devops emacs mac
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 12, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Emacs 27.1 released
  emacs release
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• Unacceptable, where is my privacy?
  privacy
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• Notes on RSI for Developers Who Don't Have It (Yet)
  practices
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• "Cloud-like" Infrastructure at Home - Part 1: LoadBalancers on the Metal
  devops linux networking
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• 12 Principles for a Diverging Desktop Future
  osdev
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• How We Got the Favicon
  browsers historical
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• Single Page Applications using Rust
  rust web
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• How I Modernized My Flash Game
  games programming
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• Mypyc - Mypy to Python C Extension Compiler
  c compilers python
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• sh(1) simple combined log analytics for static sites (wip)
  unix web
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• Pysa: Open Source static analysis for Python code
  python
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• A Grammar of Data Manipulation
  programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 11, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why the C Language Will Never Stop You from Making Mistakes
  c
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• Ideas for Programmers Looking Beyond Web Development
  programming
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• Tripping over the potholes in too many libraries
  programming rant
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• Surviving Rust async interfaces
  rust
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• That UPS you bought for your home server may not be as useful as you think
  hardware
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• 5G Just Got Weird
  mobile networking
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• sled theoretical performance guide
  performance
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• I want to contribute to your project, how do I start?
  programming
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• Haskell Love 2020
  video event haskell
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• Privacy Focused Analytics From Scratch
  privacy python web
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• The Languages Which Almost Became CSS
  css historical
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• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 10, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Tags and Flags
  announce
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• You May Finally Use JSHint for Evil
  law
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• Adding a fiber link to my home network
  hardware
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• Generics for Go
  go plt
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• Supine Computing
  practices
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• Introducing Rome
  javascript
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• Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33 (2010)
  historical programming
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• Where do argc and argv come from?
  programming unix
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• An Amiga Sampler 30 Years Later
  hardware
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• Reviewing the worst piece of code ever
  javascript
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• Plants and Soil Sensors
  databases hardware python visualization
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• Running Word Star on vDos
  historical
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 9, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Elixir RAM and the Template of Doom
  elixir performance
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• Intel, ARM, IBM, AMD Processors Vulnerable to New Side-Channel Attacks
  security
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• Tag suggestion: "keyboard"
  meta
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• I made a mechanical keyboard with 3d-printed switches
  hardware
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• Formulog: ML + Datalog + SMT
  ml plt
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• We Can Do Better Than SQL
  databases
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• Julia is production ready
  programming
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• Historical Computers in Japan-Computer Museum
  compsci hardware historical
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• Google speakers are listening to more than just voice commands
  privacy
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• One-Page Chess
  programming web
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• If You Are Still Calling AI Artificial Intelligence, You Are Wrong
  ai
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• ssh-lockbox: Personal centralised SSH key deployment to multiple boxes (and GitHub!)
  show release
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