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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 08, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Firefox is the superior browser
  

  browsers
  

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• Writing down (and searching through) every UUID
  

  math programming
  

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• Lies I was Told About Collaborative Editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing
  

  distributed
  

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• Advent of Criminally Bad Ruby Code
  

  ruby
  

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• The Biggest Shell Programs in the World (wiki)
  

  programming unix
  

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• Turn Android Phone to Batteryless Home Server
  

  hardware
  

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• Historically, 4NF explanations are needlessly confusing
  

  databases historical
  

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• Debian opens a can of username worms
  

  linux
  

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• Box64 v0.3.2 and Box86 v0.3.8 released
  

  assembly games linux
  

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• Understanding the Odin Programming Language
  

  book programming
  

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• funding.json - an open manifest for describing financial requirements for FOSS projects
  

  a11y practices
  

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• Why it took a long time to build that tiny link preview on Wikipedia [2018]
  

  web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 03, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Bicameral, Not Homoiconic
  

  lisp plt
  

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• You Have One Voice
  

  plt programming
  

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• RAII and the Rust/Linux Drama
  

  linux rust
  

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• Atomics for Humans
  

  programming
  

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• The Linux Kernel Driver Interface
  

  linux practices
  

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• Breakout in Decker, Three Ways
  

  apl art games
  

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• A KeyLogger using eBPF
  

  linux rust security
  

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• Category Theory in Programming
  

  education lisp math
  

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• What implementation-independent test file formats exist for language tooling?
  

  ask testing
  

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• How do Time Travel Debuggers Work?
  

  video debugging
  

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• Experimenting with Rust, Nix, K6 and Parca
  

  nix performance rust
  

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• DELETEs are difficult
  

  databases
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 30, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The UX of LEGO Interface Panels
  

  design historical
  

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• tk9.0 - Go GUI library
  

  go
  

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• Storing times for human events
  

  programming
  

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• Gleam's Lustre is Frontend Development's Endgame
  

  gleam
  

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• Why Can't We Make Simple Software?
  

  video practices
  

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• I stan clearing maps, no cap
  

  go performance
  

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• jank is now running on LLVM IR
  

  clojure compilers plt
  

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• Using Pandoc and Typst to Produce PDFs
  

  design
  

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• Why CLISP is under GPL (1992; email exchanges)
  

  law
  

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• The Perk Weighting Issue
  

  games
  

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• How Much Memory Do You Need in 2024 to Run 1 Million Concurrent Tasks
  

  performance
  

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• Python type hints may not be not for me in practice
  

  python
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 29, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• You Have Built an Erlang
  

  distributed erlang
  

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• Redis Inc seeks control over future of Rust redis-rs client library, amid talk of trademark concerns
  

  law
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.83.0
  

  release rust
  

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• if constexpr requires requires { requires }
  

  c++
  

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• I'm a developer not a compiler
  

  programming
  

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• TrunkVer
  

  practices
  

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• Elm & The Future of Open Source (with Evan Czaplicki)
  

  video elm
  

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• Jaq 2.0 released with lots of improvements and jqjq support
  

  release
  

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• Introduction to retrogame programming with Pyxel
  

  games python
  

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• Emacs Arbitrary Code Execution and How to Avoid It
  

  emacs security
  

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• Python dependency management is a dumpster fire
  

  python
  

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• Shrinking a Postgres Table
  

  databases
  

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