The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 26, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Jujutsu Megamerges and jj absorb
  

  vcs
  

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• Ruby 3.4.0 Released
  

  ruby
  

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• 38C3 lobste.rs meetup
  

  event
  

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• Minimal Version Selection Revisited
  

  practices
  

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• ncurses-rs has been archived
  

  rust
  

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• AI-generated tools can make programming more fun
  

  ai
  

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• What custom keyboard or layout are you using?
  

  ask hardware
  

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• Tiny challenges for learning WebAssembly
  

  wasm
  

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• Symbolic Execution by Overloading __bool__
  

  formalmethods python
  

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• 2024 State of the Adélie Linux Distribution
  

  linux
  

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• Cashing in on GIF by charging royalties
  

  historical
  

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• Serpent OS Enters Alpha
  

  linux release rust
  

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

• Merry Everything and Happy Holidays my favorite crustaceans
  

  meta
  

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• From Nix to Eos
  

  nix practices
  

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• A worked example of copy-and-patch compilation
  

  compilers plt
  

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• twice: chrome extension asking you to think twice when visit social media sites
  

  show browsers web
  

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• Controlling Nondeterminism in Model-Based Tests with Prophecy Variables
  

  databases formalmethods testing
  

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• Application blackbox
  

  debugging linux
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Problem Driven Development
  

  practices programming
  

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• Debian’s approach to Rust - Dependency handling (2022)
  

  practices rust
  

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• Goodhart's Law Isn't as Useful as You Might Think
  

  practices
  

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• Hacking Life into My Little Counter
  

  hardware
  

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• Lock Files Considered Harmful
  

  practices
  

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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 20, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• fish-shell 4.0b1, now in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect
  

  culture web
  

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• Java in the Small
  

  java
  

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• Home Manager: dotfiles management
  

  nix
  

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• Elixir v1.18 released: type checking of function calls, Language Server listeners, built-in JSON, and ExUnit improvements
  

  elixir release
  

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• Piccolo OS, a small multitasking OS for the Raspberry Pi Pico
  

  assembly c education hardware
  

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• Announcing Chapel 2.3
  

  plt release
  

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• Eternal Terminal
  

  networking unix
  

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• The RAM myth
  

  performance
  

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• Announcing NetBSD 10.1 (Dec 16, 2024)
  

  netbsd
  

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• Go advanced concurrency patterns: unlimited buffer channels
  

  go
  

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• The Intel 80376 – a Legacy-Free i386 (with a Twist!) (2010)
  

  hardware historical
  

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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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