The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• This Website is Served from Nine Neovim Buffers on My Old ThinkPad
  

  lua vim
  

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• I Tried Every Todo App and Ended Up With a .txt File
  

  practices
  

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• All ATC message routing in Germany was done through Emacs (2021)
  

  emacs lisp
  

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• Why I prefer rST [reStructuredText] to Markdown (2024)
  

  practices
  

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• GPT-5 goes hard on real-world programming
  

  vibecoding zig
  

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• Introducing the illumos Cafe: Another Cozy Corner for OS Diversity
  

  illumos
  

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• wrkflw: Validate and Run GitHub Actions locally
  

  testing
  

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• Dynamo, DynamoDB, and Aurora DSQL
  

  databases
  

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• Recto — a truly 2D language
  

  plt
  

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• NixOS & Flakes Book
  

  book nix
  

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• Customizing Lisp REPLs
  

  lisp
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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