The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 23, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why we use our own hardware at Fastmail
  

  devops hardware
  

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• Do Not Fix Bugs Reported in Your Open Source Projects
  

  practices
  

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• Plan 9 is a bicycle
  

  unix
  

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• darktable 5.0.0 released
  

  release
  

  Comments
• How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster
  

  databases
  

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• Four limitations of Rust’s borrow checker
  

  plt rust
  

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• Introducing S2: The Log – made serverless
  

  databases distributed
  

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• making a website is hard
  

  rant web
  

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• On Long Term Software Development
  

  programming
  

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• CandyFab: A DIY 3D Sugar Printer
  

  art hardware
  

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• State of JavaScript 2024
  

  javascript
  

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• Understanding Objective-C by transpiling it to C++
  

  c++ compilers objectivec
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 16, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Xfce 4.20 released
  

  release
  

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• Load is not what you should balance: Introducing Prequal
  

  distributed performance
  

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• Should Programming Languages be Safe or Powerful?
  

  plt
  

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• Fully documented and annotated source code for Elite on the Commodore 64
  

  historical
  

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• Far From Random: Three Mistakes From Dart/Flutter's Weak PRNG
  

  cryptography
  

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• Solving Advent of Code at Compile Time with Rust Macros
  

  rust
  

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• Energy-Harvesting Electronic Holiday Card 2024
  

  hardware
  

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• Swift Language focus areas heading into 2025
  

  swift
  

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• WebTransport (WebSockets 2.0) talk at RubyConf
  

  video networking ruby web
  

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• Garbage Collected Smart Pointers in Rust via Concurrent Cycle Collection
  

  compsci plt rust
  

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• Performance of Rust's match vs. lookup tables (2019)
  

  performance rust
  

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• Now we’re all Forked
  

  swift
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 08, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Firefox is the superior browser
  

  browsers
  

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• Writing down (and searching through) every UUID
  

  math programming
  

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• Lies I was Told About Collaborative Editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing
  

  distributed
  

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• Advent of Criminally Bad Ruby Code
  

  ruby
  

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• The Biggest Shell Programs in the World (wiki)
  

  programming unix
  

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• Turn Android Phone to Batteryless Home Server
  

  hardware
  

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• Historically, 4NF explanations are needlessly confusing
  

  databases historical
  

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• Debian opens a can of username worms
  

  linux
  

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• Box64 v0.3.2 and Box86 v0.3.8 released
  

  assembly games linux
  

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• Understanding the Odin Programming Language
  

  book programming
  

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• funding.json - an open manifest for describing financial requirements for FOSS projects
  

  a11y practices
  

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• Why it took a long time to build that tiny link preview on Wikipedia [2018]
  

  web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 29, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• You Have Built an Erlang
  

  distributed erlang
  

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• Redis Inc seeks control over future of Rust redis-rs client library, amid talk of trademark concerns
  

  law
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.83.0
  

  release rust
  

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• if constexpr requires requires { requires }
  

  c++
  

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• I'm a developer not a compiler
  

  programming
  

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• Elm & The Future of Open Source (with Evan Czaplicki)
  

  video elm
  

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• TrunkVer
  

  practices
  

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• Jaq 2.0 released with lots of improvements and jqjq support
  

  release
  

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• Introduction to retrogame programming with Pyxel
  

  games python
  

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• Emacs Arbitrary Code Execution and How to Avoid It
  

  emacs security
  

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• Python dependency management is a dumpster fire
  

  python
  

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• Shrinking a Postgres Table
  

  databases
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 25, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes
  

  devops
  

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• Petnames: A humane approach to secure, decentralized naming
  

  distributed security
  

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• A Reintroduction to Programming
  

  education programming
  

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• Are Golang Generics Simple or Incomplete? A Design Study
  

  go plt
  

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• How Tailscale's infrastructure team stays small
  

  networking
  

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• Introduction to Bismuth VM
  

  programming
  

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• Graphics Studies Compilation
  

  games graphics
  

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• Zero Disk Architecture
  

  databases
  

  Comments
• (Re)affirm design principles for future C++ evolution
  

  pdf c++
  

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• A 23-byte “hello, world” program assembled with DEBUG.EXE in MS-DOS
  

  assembly
  

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• Announcing Nio: An async runtime for Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Privilege escalation vulnerabilities don't really matter
  

  philosophy security
  

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