The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 26, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Chrome registers a global shortcut for Gemini popup window
  

  browsers mac windows
  

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• A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway
  

  programming
  

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• Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap
  

  dotnet go performance
  

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• stinkpot: sqlite-backed shell history
  

  show go
  

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• Zig by Example
  

  zig
  

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• Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB, Affecting Shizuku, libadb and Developers
  

  android
  

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• We Are Not Special (2021)
  

  practices
  

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• Your harddrive is probably full
  

  culture performance practices
  

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• Interview with a Maintainer
  

  satire
  

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• git rebase -i is not that scary
  

  vcs
  

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• Systems and Delays (2026)
  

  math
  

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• the perils of parsing type inference declarations in c
  

  c
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 24, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Calm technologies that excite me
  

  hardware
  

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• I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
  

  security
  

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• Justif: Knuth-Plass justification and microtypography for the web
  

  show design vibecoding web
  

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• Everyone Should Know SIMD
  

  performance zig
  

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• John C. Dvorak has died
  

  person
  

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• Why care about programming languages
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• Your analytics are lying to you
  

  web
  

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• Taking OCaml and Eio for a spin
  

  ml
  

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• Unicode Variation Selector-15 and some of my tears
  

  programming
  

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• Silent Replacement of Trusted macOS App Executables
  

  mac security
  

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• Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++
  

  c++ graphics
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
  

  historical
  

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• The git history command deserves more attention
  

  vcs
  

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• Hating AI in 2026
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Estimating the heights of New Yorkers from their scuff marks
  

  visualization
  

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• git-absorb: git commit --fixup, but automatic
  

  vcs
  

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• whatcable: macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do
  

  hardware mac vibecoding
  

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• Engineering High-Performance Parsers with Data-Oriented Design
  

  performance
  

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• Control the ideas, not the code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Too many words about DIDs
  

  distributed web
  

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• 6× faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy
  

  performance rust
  

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• Job queues are deceptively tricky
  

  distributed practices
  

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• Go-flavored concurrency in C
  

  c go
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 30, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• “Double Threat” to Private Communications: Undemocratic Chat Control Backroom Deals and Imminent Concessions Spark Relaunch of fightchatcontrol.eu
  

  privacy
  

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• Ante: New Way to Blend Borrow Checking and Reference Counting
  

  compsci plt
  

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• When Impressive Performance Gains Do Not Matter
  

  performance
  

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• Towards Understandable Software
  

  a11y
  

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• Tech Morality is Hard
  

  culture
  

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• HyperCard on the Macintosh
  

  historical mac
  

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• Loko Scheme 0.13.0
  

  lisp release
  

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• Introducing Test That
  

  rust testing
  

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• WATaBoy: JIT-ing Game Boy Instructions to Wasm Beats a Native Interpreter
  

  wasm
  

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• Canvas patch: we need testers
  

  emacs windows
  

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• Optimizing LLVM's bump allocator
  

  compilers
  

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• A Core Calculus for Documents (2024)
  

  pdf plt
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 24, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
  

  historical
  

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• The Low-Tech AI Of Elden Ring
  

  games
  

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• Rhombus v1.0: A Racket flavored language with syntax
  

  lisp plt
  

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• The curious history the invention of the CMD+K quick switcher
  

  historical mac
  

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• Please keep code descriptions simple
  

  programming
  

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• Keeping the Web Open and Private in the Bot Era
  

  browsers cryptography web
  

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• Vulnerability Reports Are Not Special Anymore
  

  security
  

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• Xfwl4's First Preview Release
  

  linux
  

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• Record type inference for dummies
  

  plt
  

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• It’s Only When You Look Back
  

  historical
  

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• British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres
  

  databases
  

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• Computing Camera Rays
  

  graphics
  

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