The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why Lexing and Parsing Should Be Separate
  

  performance plt
  

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• Dissertation Typesetting Considerations
  

  design
  

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• stdio(3) change: FILE is now opaque
  

  openbsd
  

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• Bad Apple!! CD+G on a karaoke machine
  

  graphics retrocomputing
  

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• How I Found Myself In the Game Industry
  

  graphics historical
  

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• connmap: X11 desktop widget that shows location of your current network peers on a world map in real-time
  

  show c release
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• How do you bundle application data in different languages?
  

  ask practices
  

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• Safe Cell field projection in Rust (2020)
  

  rust
  

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• A tour of Microsoft's MacBU lab (2006)
  

  historical
  

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• Deeper theories of program design
  

  philosophy
  

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• Pogocache - Fast caching software
  

  c databases
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Do you understand f-strings?
  

  python
  

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• Async Rust Is A Bad Language (2023)
  

  rust
  

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• Pimping my Casio: Part Deux
  

  hardware
  

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• Jsonptr: Using Wuffs’ Memory-Safe, Zero-Allocation JSON Decoder (2020)
  

  c compilers performance
  

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• The current technology is not ready for proper blending
  

  graphics
  

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• Shutting down Clear Linux OS
  

  linux
  

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• How I Fixed Ruby's Most Annoying Problem: 60-Second Gem Installs
  

  ruby
  

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• Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration
  

  linux security
  

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• polycode: Encode a binary file as a rational polynomial function
  

  math rust
  

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• When Root Meets Immutable: OpenBSD chflags vs. Log Tampering
  

  openbsd security
  

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• My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup
  

  devops
  

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• Frequently Asked Questions about FHE
  

  cryptography math
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Death by a thousand slops
  

  security
  

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• Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions
  

  nix
  

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• OpenZFS Bug Ported to Zig
  

  zig
  

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• Automerge 3.0
  

  distributed release
  

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• The sound of inevitability
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Diving into Plasma Bigscreen
  

  linux
  

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• Bedrock: A tiny, portable 8-bit virtual computer (uxn fork)
  

  osdev virtualization
  

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• Wikipedia outage report for May's Pope traffic spike
  

  devops
  

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• Helix 25.07 Highlights
  

  editors
  

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• Game of Trees Hub
  

  openbsd
  

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• Initial implementation of the experimental C++ Lifetime Safety Analysis (-Wexperimental-lifetime-safety) has just landed in Clang
  

  c++
  

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• Adding lookbehinds to rust-lang/regex
  

  rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Store tags after payloads
  

  plt
  

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• Ten years of running every day, visualized
  

  visualization
  

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• The hunt for a perfect laptop continues
  

  hardware
  

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• Panasonic + OpenBSD = <3
  

  openbsd
  

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• The Best C++ Library
  

  c++
  

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• Improving AVIF in Open Source
  

  compsci
  

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• Bash patch - Add shopt for implicit && in place of ; for functions end of lines
  

  linux plt unix
  

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• Exploiting All Google kernelCTF Instances And Debian 12 With A 0-Day For $82k: A RBTree Family Drama (Part One)
  

  linux security
  

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• Using Elm in 2025
  

  elm
  

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• Data alignment for speed: myth or reality? (2012)
  

  performance
  

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• you are in a box
  

  programming
  

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• How does a screen work?
  

  graphics hardware historical
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Faking a JPEG
  

  graphics security
  

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• Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD
  

  networking openbsd
  

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• Measuring power network frequency using junk you have in your closet
  

  hardware programming
  

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• Placing functions
  

  rust
  

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• Dyson Sphere Program's new multithreading framework
  

  games performance
  

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• Working through ‘Writing A C Compiler’
  

  c compilers
  

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• Not So Fast: AI Coding Tools Can Actually Reduce Productivity
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Request
  

  law
  

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• Hanami and the elephant in the room
  

  ruby
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Computer Scientists Figure Out How To Prove Lies
  

  cryptography
  

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• Multi-player Durable Stream Playground
  

  databases distributed
  

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