The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 23, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• You should never be angry at work
  

  practices
  

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• The cool things of Gleam
  

  gleam
  

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• OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It)
  

  distributed
  

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• Music theory for programmers
  

  art math
  

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• Turning My CASIO F-91W Into a Contactless Payment Device
  

  hardware
  

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• Compile-Time Improvements in LLVM 23
  

  compilers
  

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• Small, native web tricks worth remembering
  

  web
  

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• NetBSD and my life (2005)
  

  netbsd
  

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• rust-glancer: An alternative LSP for Rust with focus on low memory usage
  

  rust vibecoding
  

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• Unfortunately you sometimes need to do the thing
  

  philosophy programming rust
  

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• Vibe coding personal apps in mid-2026
  

  vibecoding
  

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• There continue to be reasons for software to be slow
  

  performance vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
  

  ios
  

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• Rethinking Database Programming
  

  databases elm plt
  

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• We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
  

  ai art
  

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• How I browse the Web with uBlock (Hard Mode)
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
  

  art
  

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• Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
  

  games historical reversing
  

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• Mojo is now open source
  

  plt
  

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• What software do you use daily in 2026?
  

  ask practices
  

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• AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read)
  

  vibecoding
  

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• CSS: the bomb inside your inbox
  

  security
  

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• Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Fixing a bricked AMD 7040 series Framework 13” laptop with $20 tools
  

  hardware
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I'm done using AI
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• How Tailscale helped find the SQLite WAL-Reset bug
  

  databases
  

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• Guide to (not) fucking up QR codes
  

  design
  

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• I hate packaging my software for Linux
  

  linux
  

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• The fastest double-to-string algorithm you’ve never heard of
  

  performance
  

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• Compression is prediction
  

  programming
  

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• Analyzing My Lobsters Submissions
  

  visualization
  

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• Introducing Automatic Key Verification
  

  cryptography privacy
  

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• My Homelab Got Hacked - A Postmortem
  

  devops security
  

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• Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB
  

  compilers games
  

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• Making [etched] holograms with a pen plotter
  

  show art graphics math
  

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• fearless_simd v0.7: 64-bit integers, improved generics, SSE2, and upcoming v1.0
  

  release rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Dithered QR codes
  

  art graphics
  

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• Rails is done
  

  culture ruby
  

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• Who Should Pay For Source Code Availability?
  

  vcs zig
  

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• Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug
  

  debugging
  

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• Mea Culpa - Dark Hours
  

  vibecoding
  

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• IRC technology news from the first half of 2026
  

  networking
  

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• I think the vibecoding tag has gotten out of hand
  

  meta vibecoding
  

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• Systemd Dynamic Users (2020)
  

  systemd
  

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• Multistack Concatenative Programming Languages
  

  concatenative plt
  

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• Relying on Go
  

  go
  

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• my server is a phone now
  

  android
  

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• Counting the days, revisited
  

  programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• tl;dv (Too Lazy; Didn't Validate): 181,874 Meetings Left Wide Open
  

  privacy security
  

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• i wonder if you could make a useful DOS executable with just emoji
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• python string literals are kinda funny
  

  python
  

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• jujutsu 0.44.0
  

  release vcs
  

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• A Vision for Cargo
  

  rust
  

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• GNU Hurd news 2026-q2
  

  osdev
  

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• Symbolics OpenGenera to go free for non-commercial use
  

  lisp osdev
  

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• Zig's Io.Threaded is Neat
  

  zig
  

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• I Built a Blog and Forgot to Write
  

  culture philosophy practices
  

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• C++26: #embed
  

  c++
  

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• The following is a valid DOS COM executable
  

  art programming
  

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• Painting with Gaussians
  

  graphics programming vibecoding
  

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