The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Zig's Lovely Syntax
  

  zig
  

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• Lobsters client for Emacs
  

  show emacs
  

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• The First Time I Was Almost Fired From Apple
  

  design historical
  

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• JanetDocs
  

  show lisp
  

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• Why do we even need SIMD instructions ?
  

  performance
  

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• Why Racket? Why Lisp? (2014)
  

  lisp
  

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• What even is distributed systems
  

  distributed
  

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• Notes on a smaller Rust (2019)
  

  plt
  

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• GPTs and feeling left behind
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Why I prefer human-readable file formats
  

  practices
  

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• Creating high quality electronics schematics
  

  hardware
  

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• Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers
  

  networking
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why is GitHub UI getting so much slower?
  

  performance web
  

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• Lobsters Interview with Hwayne
  

  interview formalmethods person
  

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• The Framework Desktop is a beast
  

  hardware
  

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• Debian 13 "trixie" released
  

  linux release
  

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• an engineer's perspective on hiring
  

  practices
  

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• A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering (2008)
  

  historical
  

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• Partially Matching Zig Enums
  

  programming
  

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• A puzzling Python program
  

  python
  

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• Introducing spindle
  

  nix vcs
  

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• Programming as Extended Cognition
  

  programming
  

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• A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package
  

  hardware historical reversing
  

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• Why MCP’s Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices Will Burn Enterprises
  

  api vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• KomoDo, my first KDE app
  

  linux release
  

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• Who's Hiring? Q3 2025
  

  job
  

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• HTTP is not simple
  

  web
  

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• All the cool kids are doing it
  

  vibecoding
  

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• How long does it take to upgrade an eBook?
  

  a11y
  

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• Writing surtoget.no with gleam
  

  gleam
  

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• Hypothesis is now thread-safe
  

  python testing
  

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• Arenas in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• How I ended up writing Gleam for a living
  

  video gleam
  

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• Forsp: A Forth+Lisp Hybrid Lambda Calculus Language
  

  lisp plt
  

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• Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems
  

  historical mac
  

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• HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame
  

  security web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Parse, don’t validate (2019)
  

  programming
  

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• How do you backup your non-work-related data?
  

  ask practices
  

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• Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie
  

  programming
  

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• People still use our old-fashioned Unix login servers
  

  historical unix
  

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• Tagged Unions are actually quite sexy
  

  zig
  

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• The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble
  

  games math
  

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• A real PowerBook: the Macintosh Application Environment on a PA-RISC laptop
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• C Language Enum Tips & Tricks (2021)
  

  c
  

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• Keep calm and carry on
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Unit Testing Principles
  

  practices testing
  

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• Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
  

  c
  

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• candyfloss: an ergonomic python library for running video pipelines
  

  python
  

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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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