The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• This Website is Served from Nine Neovim Buffers on My Old ThinkPad
  

  lua vim
  

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• I Tried Every Todo App and Ended Up With a .txt File
  

  practices
  

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• All ATC message routing in Germany was done through Emacs (2021)
  

  emacs lisp
  

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• Why I prefer rST [reStructuredText] to Markdown (2024)
  

  practices
  

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• GPT-5 goes hard on real-world programming
  

  vibecoding zig
  

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• Introducing the illumos Cafe: Another Cozy Corner for OS Diversity
  

  illumos
  

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• wrkflw: Validate and Run GitHub Actions locally
  

  testing
  

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• Dynamo, DynamoDB, and Aurora DSQL
  

  databases
  

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• Recto — a truly 2D language
  

  plt
  

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• NixOS & Flakes Book
  

  book nix
  

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• Customizing Lisp REPLs
  

  lisp
  

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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 07, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The how and why of GitHub to Codeberg
  

  privacy web
  

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• Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Be Careful with Go Struct Embedding
  

  go
  

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• Gate-level emulation of an Intel 4004 in 4004 bytes of C
  

  c
  

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• We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles
  

  programming
  

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• Why are Windows semiannual updates named H1 and H2?
  

  windows
  

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• A Proper X86 Assembler in Haskell Using the Escardó-Oliva Functional
  

  compilers haskell
  

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• Digital hygiene: Emails
  

  email practices
  

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• zig-error-patterns
  

  zig
  

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• Rethinking devtools: Escaping the Cloud and SaaS trap
  

  api scaling web
  

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• Open models by OpenAI
  

  ai release
  

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• Python performance myths and fairy tales
  

  python
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Every reason why I hate AI
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Markdown Monster
  

  programming
  

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• What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?
  

  ask practices programming
  

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• Gleam v1.12.0 released
  

  gleam release
  

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• A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known
  

  web
  

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• Quickshell, building blocks for your desktop
  

  linux
  

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• The Toyota Corolla Of Programming
  

  php
  

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• Lisp interpreter with GC in 662 lines of Odin (and <500 lines of C)
  

  c lisp
  

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• TIL that You can spot base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys
  

  security
  

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• No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Rust, Python, and TypeScript: the new trifecta
  

  javascript python rust vibecoding
  

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• Introducing luzer, a coverage-guided Lua fuzzing engine
  

  lua practices programming security testing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Parse, don’t validate (2019)
  

  programming
  

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• How do you backup your non-work-related data?
  

  ask practices
  

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• Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie
  

  programming
  

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• People still use our old-fashioned Unix login servers
  

  historical unix
  

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• Tagged Unions are actually quite sexy
  

  zig
  

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• The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble
  

  games math
  

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• A real PowerBook: the Macintosh Application Environment on a PA-RISC laptop
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• C Language Enum Tips & Tricks (2021)
  

  c
  

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• Keep calm and carry on
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Unit Testing Principles
  

  practices testing
  

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• Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
  

  c
  

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• candyfloss: an ergonomic python library for running video pipelines
  

  python
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 25, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Wayback 0.1 released
  

  linux
  

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• Developing our position on AI
  

  vibecoding
  

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• There is no memory safety without thread safety
  

  go java plt
  

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• How we discovered, and recovered from, Postgres corruption on the matrix.org homeserver
  

  databases
  

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• The Promised LAN
  

  networking
  

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• A valid HTML zip bomb
  

  web
  

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• 20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 4)
  

  historical
  

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• The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics
  

  design hardware
  

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• systemd 258-rc1 Is A Massive Feature Release With New Tools, More Than 260 Changes
  

  linux
  

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• JNJ: J iN Janet
  

  apl lisp
  

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• TrackWeight: Use your Mac trackpad as a weighing scale
  

  mac
  

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• How much do you spend on AI-assisted tools?
  

  ask vibecoding
  

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