The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 09, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Protect mode support in the original Windows 3.0 was basically a 1-man skunkworks project
  

  historical windows
  

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• Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit
  

  networking
  

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• The errors of TeX
  

  pdf historical practices
  

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• The Pentium FDIV bug, reverse-engineered
  

  hardware historical reversing
  

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• Douglas Crockford Is Not Your Dad
  

  rant
  

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• qutebrowser: A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt
  

  browsers
  

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• React 19 is now stable
  

  javascript release web
  

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• Galloping Search
  

  programming
  

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• How a solar Minecraft server is changing the way we play video games
  

  education games
  

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• Designing a const `array::from_fn` in stable Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Intuition in Software Development
  

  philosophy
  

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• How do I pay the publisher of a web page?
  

  finance web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 08, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Firefox is the superior browser
  

  browsers
  

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• Writing down (and searching through) every UUID
  

  math programming
  

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• Lies I was Told About Collaborative Editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing
  

  distributed
  

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• Advent of Criminally Bad Ruby Code
  

  ruby
  

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• The Biggest Shell Programs in the World (wiki)
  

  programming unix
  

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• Turn Android Phone to Batteryless Home Server
  

  hardware
  

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• Historically, 4NF explanations are needlessly confusing
  

  databases historical
  

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• Debian opens a can of username worms
  

  linux
  

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• Box64 v0.3.2 and Box86 v0.3.8 released
  

  assembly games linux
  

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• Understanding the Odin Programming Language
  

  book programming
  

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• funding.json - an open manifest for describing financial requirements for FOSS projects
  

  a11y practices
  

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• Why it took a long time to build that tiny link preview on Wikipedia [2018]
  

  web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 05, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Egoless Engineering
  

  scaling
  

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• Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here! - Phoenix Blog
  

  elixir release
  

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• A Brief Introduction to OCI Containers on FreeBSD
  

  freebsd
  

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• Speeding up Ruby by rewriting C in Ruby
  

  c compilers ruby rust
  

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• The Tube Computer: wall-mounted 8-bit homebrew computer from vintage thermionic valves
  

  hardware historical retrocomputing
  

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• Transferring Python Build Standalone Stewardship to Astral
  

  python
  

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• Rust9x update: Rust 1.84.0-beta
  

  release retrocomputing rust
  

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• Precomputation
  

  compsci
  

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• The Return of Procedural Programming
  

  video historical plt
  

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• New era of slop security reports for open source
  

  ai security
  

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• The Next Generation of the Heroku Platform
  

  devops
  

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• Designing Wild's incremental linking
  

  compilers
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 02, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Brazilian CA issues google.com certificate
  

  security
  

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• Typst as a Language
  

  plt
  

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• The fascinating security model of dark web marketplaces
  

  security web
  

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• Compilation on the GPU? A feasibility study
  

  compilers performance
  

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• How do you manage Personal Email, Registar and Host Accounts to Prevent Lock Out?
  

  email privacy security
  

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• Why do we call it "boilerplate code?" (2022)
  

  historical
  

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• Learnings after 4 years working with +50 companies on data engineering projects
  

  databases
  

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• Inline Assembly Dangers
  

  assembly
  

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• 7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025
  

  databases
  

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• Building a distributed log using S3 (under 150 lines of Go)
  

  databases
  

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• The complexities of enabling OpenCL support
  

  graphics linux
  

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• Property-based Testing Patterns (2016)
  

  testing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 30, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The UX of LEGO Interface Panels
  

  design historical
  

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• tk9.0 - Go GUI library
  

  go
  

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• Storing times for human events
  

  programming
  

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• Gleam's Lustre is Frontend Development's Endgame
  

  gleam
  

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• Why Can't We Make Simple Software?
  

  video practices
  

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• I stan clearing maps, no cap
  

  go performance
  

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• jank is now running on LLVM IR
  

  clojure compilers plt
  

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• Using Pandoc and Typst to Produce PDFs
  

  design
  

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• Why CLISP is under GPL (1992; email exchanges)
  

  law
  

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• The Perk Weighting Issue
  

  games
  

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• How Much Memory Do You Need in 2024 to Run 1 Million Concurrent Tasks
  

  performance
  

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• Python type hints may not be not for me in practice
  

  python
  

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