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

• Jepsen - PostgreSQL 12.3
  databases distributed testing
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• Functional Code is Honest Code
  api programming
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• Async Python is not faster
  performance python
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• A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website
  privacy web
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• Is Dark Mode Such A Good Idea?
  web
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• Procedurally generated Chinese landscape painting
  art
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• Shredder: Garbage Collection as a Library for Rust
  rust
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• Hamler – Haskell-style functional programming language running on Erlang VM
  erlang haskell
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• Never forget your password with this Python encryption algorithm
  crypto python
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• Malware on the blockchain
  cryptocurrencies security
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• WebCheck: High-confidence browser testing
  testing web
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• Cassandra counter columns: nice in theory, hazardous in practice
  databases
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 12, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• GE Filtergate
  hardware rant reversing
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• Flat UI Elements Attract Less Attention and Cause Uncertainty
  design
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• How Does Mastodon Work?
  web
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• An introduction to Go for non-Go developers
  go programming
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• The GUI should be better. A lot better
  video design rant
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• Snabb: 100 Gbit/s pure software switching using Lua
  lua networking
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• Why Tacit Knowledge is More Important Than Deliberate Practice
  practices
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• Using Mnesia in an Elixir Application
  databases elixir
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• What are Unit Tests For?
  testing
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• My impression of the PineBook Pro – a $200 ARM powered laptop
  hardware
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• Merkle trees and build systems
  programming
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• CSS :is() and :where() are coming to browsers
  css
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 11, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Poetics of CLI Command Names
  osdev philosophy practices
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• What tools made you better programmer
  ask programming
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• How and why GraphQL will influence the SourceHut alpha
  databases
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• What's the ideal developer experience in 2020?
  ask programming
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• Clojure: a mature alternative to Java
  clojure
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• Iris: a simple mail client for Vim
  email vim
  Comments
• Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not part of our stack
  devops
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• Next browser is now Nyxt
  browsers release
  Comments
• New inline assembly syntax available in nightly
  rust
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• A Beginner's Guide to Amiga E
  programming
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• Emacs Comment Commands Redux
  emacs
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• SGAxe: How SGX Fails in Practice
  hardware security
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 10, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Most tech content is bullshit
  practices
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• seL4 is verified on RISC-V
  assembly formalmethods hardware osdev
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• zls: A Zig Language Server
  video programming
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• Playing Around With The Fuchsia Operating System
  osdev
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• Defects are not the fault of programmers
  practices
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• Collapse OS — Why Forth?
  osdev
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• Not everything is UTF-8
  programming
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• How the most upvoted C question was another question
  c
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• Is `sudo` almost useless?
  linux security
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• Haiku R1/beta2 has been released
  osdev release
  Comments
• Why sysadmins don't like changing things, illustrated
  practices
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• Happy 25th Anniversary to PHP
  historical php
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 9, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The RuboCop Name Drama Redux
  culture ruby
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• Streaming Lobsters dev on Monday evenings
  event meta
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• 9front "PLAN9-HATERS" released
  release unix
  Comments
• Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80's
  crypto historical
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• Deploying This Site with IPFS and Scheme
  devops web
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• Old Code Gets Younger Every Year
  practices
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• Centralisation and Mastodon
  web
  Comments
• hyperfine - a command-line benchmarking tool
  performance
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• Peeking under the hood of Command & Conquer
  games historical
  Comments
• choose: A human-friendly and fast alternative to awk and cut
  release rust
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• Obese websites and planet-sized metronomes
  rant web
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• Gerald Jay Sussman & Chris Hanson: Adventures In Advanced Symbolic Programming
  video lisp
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 8, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why Email is the Best Discussion Platform
  email
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• A guide to writing a DNS Server from scratch in Rust
  networking rust
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• Running Linux on my Macbook
  linux mac
  Comments
• tic-tac-toe in a single call to printf
  programming
  Comments
• I’m a Developer. I Won’t Teach My Kids to Code, and Neither Should You
  education practices
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• SpaceX software team Reddit AMA
  performance practices testing
  Comments
• TFW you find the last cartridge
  historical
  Comments
• What’s In A Font? Researching Website Typography
  design web
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• The cache replacement problem
  go
  Comments
• MiniCouchDB in Rust
  databases rust
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• The Curious Case of Small Files
  databases
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• Installing Arch Linux on the Pinebook Pro
  linux
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 7, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why I Use Suckless Tools
  linux philosophy
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• It's 2020 and USB-C is still a mess
  hardware
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• Why the developers who use Rust love it so much
  rust
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• Add a “contrib” directory to your projects
  practices
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• Bifrost meets GNOME: Onward & upward to zero graphics blobs
  linux
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Introduction to OCaml (2018)
  ml
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• Do Simple Things
  programming
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• srv: minimalist alternative to python -m http.server
  go
  Comments
• Maze Algorithms
  visualization
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• Lattice Drops EULA Clause Forbidding FPGA Bitstream Reverse Engineering
  law
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• There Are No Bugs, Just TODOs
  practices
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 6, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why you should try pyinfra
  devops python
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• SimRefinery recovered
  games historical
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• Bintracker · A Chiptune Audio Workstation for the 21st Century
  lisp
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• Image Scrubber
  release
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• Documenting With MediaWiki
  education
  Comments
• A New RegExp Engine in SpiderMonkey
  compilers javascript
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• Mac in Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding
  programming
  Comments
• Devuan Beowulf 3.0.0 stable release
  linux release
  Comments
• Using ASCII waveforms to test hardware designs
  hardware ml testing
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• VAX port needs help
  compilers netbsd
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• Codesearch: fast, indexed regexp search over large file trees
  go
  Comments
• Building an easy on the eyes IKEA style blog, in no time, for free, again
  javascript web
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 5, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Introducing hermes
  linux release
  Comments
• Oasis: Small statically-linked linux system
  linux osdev
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• If Zoom Is Wrong, So Is Apple
  privacy security
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• What's up with K-9 Mail?
  android email
  Comments
• Unker Non-Linear Writing System
  art
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• Commodore never made an Amiga Workbench smart watch OS, so I did instead
  hardware release
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• PostgreSQL BRIN Indexes: Big Data Performance With Minimal Storage
  databases
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• A baseline compiler for guile
  compilers lisp
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• Hacking the Planet (with Notcurses) - A Guide to TUIs and Character Graphics
  pdf c unix
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• Penrose: from mathematical notation to beautiful diagrams
  math visualization
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• My Third Year Of Freelancing
  web
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• Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is hurting independent developers
  rant windows
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 4, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Do you feel JS developers are pushing a bit too hard to use NodeJS everywhere?
  ask nodejs web
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• The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk
  historical
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• Snakeware: a free Linux distro with a fully Python userspace
  linux python
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• My Thoughts On Pop OS 20.04 After One Month
  linux
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• Airshare - Transfer files over WiFi back and forth all devices from your terminal
  linux networking python
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• Literate: A literate programming tool for any language
  programming
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• Sharedrop: HTML5 clone of Apple's AirDrop - easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC
  javascript web
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• FreeBSD 2020 Community Survey
  freebsd
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• Scaling Up With Elixir
  elixir
  Comments
• Is anyone hiring for new grads ?
  ask job
  Comments
• Steg Cloak: Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely using passwords
  javascript security web
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• Lenovo Brings Linux® Certification to ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio
  linux
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