The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop
  

  linux
  

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• Assorted less(1) tips
  

  unix
  

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• Reasons to Love the Field of Programming Languages
  

  compilers plt
  

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• which programming resource changed your career?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy
  

  editors emacs
  

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• Rust9x update: Rust 1.93.0-beta
  

  release retrocomputing rust windows
  

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• 10 years of personal finances in plain text files
  

  finance python
  

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• xcc700: mini C compiler for esp32
  

  c compilers
  

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• Darktable Styles mimicing Fujifilm's Film Simulations
  

  graphics
  

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• Releasing Fjall 3.0
  

  databases release
  

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• Email Privacy Tester
  

  email privacy
  

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• hindsight: GitHub-style git activity visualizer for terminal
  

  rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 29, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• 39C3: To sign or not to sign: Practical vulnerabilities in GPG & friends
  

  security
  

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• Replacing JS with just HTML
  

  web
  

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• Release age v1.3.0: post-quantum (and more)
  

  cryptography release
  

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• On LLMs in programming
  

  vibecoding
  

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• gpg.fail
  

  video cryptography security
  

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• Goodbye Sass
  

  web
  

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• The production bug that made me care about undefined behavior
  

  c++
  

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• You can't design software you don't work on
  

  practices
  

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• CVE-2025-14847: MongoBleed
  

  databases security
  

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• Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi
  

  retrocomputing windows
  

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• Easel Turns One! One year of building my own IDE in Clojure
  

  clojure editors
  

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• MongoBleed explained simply
  

  security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• what is a build system, anyway?
  

  programming
  

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• Build Systems A La Carte (2018)
  

  pdf programming
  

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• Editors should have an opt-in for less assistance (2024)
  

  editors
  

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• Rats Play Doom
  

  games
  

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• Indexed Reverse Polish Notation, an Alternative to AST
  

  compilers
  

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• icl: Interactive Common Lisp: an enhanced REPL
  

  lisp
  

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• A distraction-free writing environment
  

  editors
  

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• Stop writing if statements for your CLI flags
  

  javascript
  

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• How I wrote JustHTML using coding agents
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Using nvi as a Minimal and Fast Text Editor
  

  editors
  

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• The <time> element should actually do something
  

  a11y web
  

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• Indices point between elements (2015)
  

  programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 07, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Flow Control: a programmer's text editor
  

  editors vim zig
  

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• Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via third-party upgrade kit
  

  hardware
  

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• Reminder about Framework Laptop
  

  culture
  

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• How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM
  

  hardware
  

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• GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst
  

  security
  

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• Leaving Intel
  

  performance person
  

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• Should CSS be Constraints?
  

  css
  

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• I want a better build executor
  

  programming
  

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• Perl's decline was cultural
  

  perl
  

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• What's the Point of Learning Functional Programming?
  

  haskell
  

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• Why We Built Lightpanda in Zig
  

  zig
  

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• The Resonant Computing Manifesto
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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

• jujutsu v0.36.0 released
  

  release vcs
  

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• How to speed up the Rust compiler in December 2025
  

  performance rust
  

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• Fairphone open-sources Fairphone 5 and 6 software, and Moments switch
  

  android
  

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• Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
  

  go rust zig
  

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• ][ Hello blog
  

  show go
  

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• Lobsters Interview with Aks
  

  person
  

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• Typewriter plotters
  

  hardware historical
  

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• Why ed(1)?
  

  editors
  

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• bcachefs 1.33.0 - reconcile
  

  linux release
  

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• APL for Plan9
  

  apl
  

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• JavaScript Announced 30 Years Ago
  

  historical javascript
  

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• Golang’s Big Miss on Memory Arenas
  

  go
  

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