The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 31, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I want to defend Wayland here and explain a crucial piece that I think people are missing
  

  graphics historical
  

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• A month using XMPP for every call and chat (2023)
  

  networking
  

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• A Dive Into Open Chat Protocols
  

  networking
  

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• Flat design vs realistic (“skeuomorphic”) design
  

  a11y design
  

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• [RFC] Upstream target support for CHERI-enabled architectures
  

  compilers security
  

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• bookmarkfs: FUSE-based pseudo-filesystem for managing web browser bookmarks
  

  unix web
  

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• A pretty nice web framework
  

  web
  

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• KernelScript: DSL for eBPF-Centric Development
  

  linux plt
  

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• You Are The BIOS Now: Building A Hypervisor In Rust With KVM
  

  linux rust virtualization
  

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• Writing memory efficient C structs
  

  c programming
  

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• Phoenix LiveView v1.1.0
  

  elixir release web
  

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• Raspberry Pi RP2350 A4 stepping fixes E9 GPIO Erratum, glitching bugs, introduces 2MB flash variants
  

  hardware
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I'm never going back to Matrix
  

  rant
  

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• I designed my own ridiculously fast game streaming video codec
  

  graphics performance
  

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• Printing a Book at Home with Minimal Equipment
  

  show education historical
  

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• Weather Model based on ADS-B
  

  hardware visualization
  

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• Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
  

  vim vscode
  

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• No more Erlang manuals
  

  erlang
  

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• 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
  

  practices programming
  

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• Linux 6.16 changelog
  

  linux release
  

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• rules_derive: deriving using macro_rules
  

  release rust
  

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• The Bard and The Shell
  

  unix
  

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• From XML to JSON to CBOR
  

  historical
  

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• Make Your Own Backup System – Part 2: Forging the FreeBSD Backup Stronghold
  

  freebsd
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 28, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Wren - a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language
  

  plt
  

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• TIL: Exception.add_note
  

  python
  

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• copyparty: portable file server with resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, and more
  

  privacy python
  

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• Development shells with Nix: four quick examples
  

  nix
  

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• The JJ VCS Workshop: A Zero-to-Hero Speedrun
  

  vcs
  

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• Resizable structs in Zig
  

  zig
  

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• Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e'
  

  practices programming
  

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• Test results for AMD Zen 5
  

  hardware performance
  

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• Optimi-Zi(n)g Sudoku-Solving
  

  performance zig
  

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• Protest footage blocked as online safety act comes into force
  

  law
  

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• Specials (2021)
  

  satire unix
  

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• LLMs are bad at returning code in JSON
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 27, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days
  

  a11y
  

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• It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
  

  css web
  

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• Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU - claims 100x more efficient than ARM
  

  hardware
  

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• Rust running on every major GPU platform
  

  graphics rust
  

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• From Async/Await to Virtual Threads
  

  python
  

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• Programming Vehicles in Games
  

  games
  

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• Heredocs Can Make Your Bash Scripts Self-Documenting
  

  linux
  

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• Bringing a Decade Old Bicycle Navigator Back to Life with Open Source Software (and DOOM)
  

  hardware reversing
  

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• Split Flap
  

  design web
  

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• Can LLMs Do Accounting?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Monotonic and Wall Clock Time in the Go time package
  

  go
  

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• Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions
  

  graphics
  

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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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