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 29, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Redditor Speculates that EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google
  

  android security
  

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• An AI tool I find useful
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• How I hacked my washing machine
  

  reversing
  

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• [trane]
  

  art lisp
  

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• On designing application UIs for children
  

  design
  

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• Enough AI copilots! We need AI HUDs
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation (3rd edition)
  

  book pdf lisp plt
  

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• How to Make Websites That Will Require Lots of Your Time and Energy
  

  rant web
  

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• No moar cookies
  

  privacy programming
  

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• The many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade
  

  historical javascript
  

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• Revontuli Colorscheme Collection
  

  design
  

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• Following up on the Python JIT
  

  performance 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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why Lexing and Parsing Should Be Separate
  

  performance plt
  

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• Dissertation Typesetting Considerations
  

  design
  

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• stdio(3) change: FILE is now opaque
  

  openbsd
  

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• Bad Apple!! CD+G on a karaoke machine
  

  graphics retrocomputing
  

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• How I Found Myself In the Game Industry
  

  graphics historical
  

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• connmap: X11 desktop widget that shows location of your current network peers on a world map in real-time
  

  show c release
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• How do you bundle application data in different languages?
  

  ask practices
  

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• Safe Cell field projection in Rust (2020)
  

  rust
  

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• A tour of Microsoft's MacBU lab (2006)
  

  historical
  

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• Deeper theories of program design
  

  philosophy
  

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• Pogocache - Fast caching software
  

  c databases
  

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