The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 20, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• fish-shell 4.0b1, now in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect
  

  culture web
  

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• Java in the Small
  

  java
  

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• Home Manager: dotfiles management
  

  nix
  

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• Elixir v1.18 released: type checking of function calls, Language Server listeners, built-in JSON, and ExUnit improvements
  

  elixir release
  

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• Piccolo OS, a small multitasking OS for the Raspberry Pi Pico
  

  assembly c education hardware
  

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• Announcing Chapel 2.3
  

  plt release
  

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• Eternal Terminal
  

  networking unix
  

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• The RAM myth
  

  performance
  

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• Announcing NetBSD 10.1 (Dec 16, 2024)
  

  netbsd
  

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• Go advanced concurrency patterns: unlimited buffer channels
  

  go
  

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• The Intel 80376 – a Legacy-Free i386 (with a Twist!) (2010)
  

  hardware historical
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 19, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A Survey Of System Languages (2024)
  

  plt
  

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• ergo: A modern IRC server (daemon/ircd) written in Go
  

  go networking
  

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• Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 1
  

  performance ruby
  

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• Introduce support for the Meson build system - git.git@904339e
  

  programming vcs
  

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• Impressions of React and TypeScript from an Elixir/Elm developer
  

  elixir elm javascript programming
  

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• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
  

  law web
  

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• Fixing C strings
  

  c
  

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• What are temporal and spatial memory safety?
  

  programming
  

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• Effectful - Build Fast & Reliable Haskell Applications
  

  haskell
  

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• Interactive diagrams for complex systems
  

  design graphics visualization
  

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• AI and Internet Hygiene
  

  ai
  

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• Murder Mystery: GCC Builds Failing After sbuild Refactoring in Debian
  

  d debugging linux testing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 16, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Xfce 4.20 released
  

  release
  

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• Load is not what you should balance: Introducing Prequal
  

  distributed performance
  

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• Should Programming Languages be Safe or Powerful?
  

  plt
  

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• Fully documented and annotated source code for Elite on the Commodore 64
  

  historical
  

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• Far From Random: Three Mistakes From Dart/Flutter's Weak PRNG
  

  cryptography
  

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• Solving Advent of Code at Compile Time with Rust Macros
  

  rust
  

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• Energy-Harvesting Electronic Holiday Card 2024
  

  hardware
  

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• Swift Language focus areas heading into 2025
  

  swift
  

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• WebTransport (WebSockets 2.0) talk at RubyConf
  

  video networking ruby web
  

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• Garbage Collected Smart Pointers in Rust via Concurrent Cycle Collection
  

  compsci plt rust
  

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• Performance of Rust's match vs. lookup tables (2019)
  

  performance rust
  

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• Now we’re all Forked
  

  swift
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 11, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust
  

  databases rust
  

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• Common Misconceptions about Compilers
  

  compilers
  

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• From where I left
  

  databases person
  

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• Tree Calculus
  

  plt programming
  

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• Building a Tiny CDN With pyinfra and Chimera Linux
  

  networking
  

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• Filesystems can tell the kernel to panic
  

  linux security
  

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• An Undefeated Pull Request Template
  

  practices programming
  

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• What are your favorite non-standard CLI utilities/applications
  

  ask unix
  

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• Rust Futures are not guaranteed to be lazy
  

  rust
  

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• Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 18
  

  ios swift
  

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• An experimental (e)shell pager
  

  emacs lisp mac
  

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• Data structures as jigs for programmers (Go edition)
  

  go
  

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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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