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

• what is a build system, anyway?
  

  programming
  

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• Build Systems A La Carte (2018)
  

  pdf programming
  

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• Editors should have an opt-in for less assistance (2024)
  

  editors
  

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• Rats Play Doom
  

  games
  

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• Indexed Reverse Polish Notation, an Alternative to AST
  

  compilers
  

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• icl: Interactive Common Lisp: an enhanced REPL
  

  lisp
  

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• A distraction-free writing environment
  

  editors
  

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• Stop writing if statements for your CLI flags
  

  javascript
  

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• How I wrote JustHTML using coding agents
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Using nvi as a Minimal and Fast Text Editor
  

  editors
  

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• The <time> element should actually do something
  

  a11y web
  

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• Indices point between elements (2015)
  

  programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why the Sanitizer API is just `setHTML()`
  

  browsers security web
  

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• Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help
  

  design mac
  

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• potential security breach in syncthing-fork
  

  android security
  

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• Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
  

  databases distributed testing
  

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• An Attempt at a Compelling Articulation of Forth's Practical Strengths and Eternal Usefulness
  

  concatenative programming
  

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• One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics
  

  hardware historical unix
  

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• F35 Fighter Jet’s C++ Coding Standards
  

  pdf c++
  

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• The Internet forgets, but I don’t want to
  

  culture web
  

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• Practical guide to XHTML (2021)
  

  web
  

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• From Azure Functions to FreeBSD
  

  freebsd
  

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• Nova Programming Language
  

  plt
  

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• 150.000 nodes in a Virtual DOM? No problem
  

  video web
  

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

• Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
  

  networking rust
  

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• What Makes the Intro to Crafting Interpreters so Good?
  

  education practices
  

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• Self-hosting DNS for no fun, but a little profit
  

  linux
  

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• Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared
  

  freebsd illumos linux netbsd openbsd
  

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• The lost cause of the Lisp machines
  

  hardware lisp retrocomputing
  

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• A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice
  

  unix
  

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• Experiment: making TypeScript immutable-by-default
  

  javascript
  

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• My First Fifteen Compilers
  

  compilers
  

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• Pebble, Rebble, and a Path Forward
  

  culture hardware practices
  

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• WhatsApp Census
  

  pdf security
  

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• An actor-model multi-core scheduler for OCaml 5
  

  erlang ml
  

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• What Killed Perl?
  

  perl
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• strace-macos: A clone of the strace command for macOS
  

  debugging mac
  

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• JavaScript engines zoo
  

  javascript performance
  

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• Production-Grade Container Deployment with Podman Quadlets
  

  devops linux systemd virtualization
  

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• Pre-PEP: Rust for CPython
  

  python rust
  

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• The Cameras Tracking You = A Security Nightmare
  

  video security
  

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• Launching the 2025 State of Rust Survey
  

  rust
  

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• Giving C a Superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h)
  

  c programming
  

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• Goofing on Meta's AI Crawler
  

  ai
  

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• Towards interplanetary QUIC traffic
  

  networking rust science
  

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• Typechecking is undecideable when 'type' is a type (1989)
  

  pdf math plt
  

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• Oblique Strategies: Prompts for Programmers (2015)
  

  practices programming
  

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• sit: Create StuffIt archives on Unix systems
  

  retrocomputing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Unix V4 tape found at The University of Utah
  

  retrocomputing unix
  

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• I use Typst now
  

  programming
  

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• Mastodon 4.5
  

  distributed release
  

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• Error Codes for Control Flow
  

  plt zig
  

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• What the hell have you built
  

  rant
  

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• Firefox Forcing LLM Features
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Typst-Unlit: Write literate Haskell programs in Typst
  

  pdf haskell
  

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• You Should Write An Agent
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Building blobd: single-machine object store with sub-millisecond reads and 15 GB/s uploads
  

  performance programming
  

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• Radiant Computer
  

  osdev programming vibecoding
  

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• Why Nextcloud feels slow to use
  

  performance web
  

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• Introduction to IncusOS
  

  release virtualization
  

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