The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Parse, don’t validate (2019)
  

  programming
  

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• How do you backup your non-work-related data?
  

  ask practices
  

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• Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie
  

  programming
  

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• People still use our old-fashioned Unix login servers
  

  historical unix
  

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• Tagged Unions are actually quite sexy
  

  zig
  

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• The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble
  

  games math
  

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• A real PowerBook: the Macintosh Application Environment on a PA-RISC laptop
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• C Language Enum Tips & Tricks (2021)
  

  c
  

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• Keep calm and carry on
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Unit Testing Principles
  

  practices testing
  

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• Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
  

  c
  

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• candyfloss: an ergonomic python library for running video pipelines
  

  python
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 03, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Jujutsu For Busy Devs, Part 2: "How Do I...?"
  

  vcs
  

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• How to help someone use a computer
  

  a11y education
  

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• Wayback 0.2 released
  

  linux release
  

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• Vibe code is legacy code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Long Term Support
  

  databases release
  

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• The /o in Ruby regex stands for “oh the humanity!”
  

  compilers ruby
  

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• Reflections on Matrix criticism over the last week
  

  video distributed
  

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• Less Glue, More Product: Why Elixir Shrinks Architectural Complexity
  

  distributed elixir erlang
  

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• This Month in Ladybird - July 2025
  

  browsers
  

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• What Declarative Languages Are (2013)
  

  plt
  

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• Ramblings
  

  practices
  

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• Schematra: Sinatra inspired Chicken web framework
  

  lisp web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I'm never going back to Matrix
  

  rant
  

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• I designed my own ridiculously fast game streaming video codec
  

  graphics performance
  

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• Printing a Book at Home with Minimal Equipment
  

  show education historical
  

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• Weather Model based on ADS-B
  

  hardware visualization
  

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• Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
  

  vim vscode
  

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• No more Erlang manuals
  

  erlang
  

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• 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
  

  practices programming
  

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• Linux 6.16 changelog
  

  linux release
  

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• rules_derive: deriving using macro_rules
  

  release rust
  

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• The Bard and The Shell
  

  unix
  

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• From XML to JSON to CBOR
  

  historical
  

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• Make Your Own Backup System – Part 2: Forging the FreeBSD Backup Stronghold
  

  freebsd
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 29, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Redditor Speculates that EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google
  

  android security
  

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• An AI tool I find useful
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• How I hacked my washing machine
  

  reversing
  

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• [trane]
  

  art lisp
  

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• On designing application UIs for children
  

  design
  

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• Enough AI copilots! We need AI HUDs
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation (3rd edition)
  

  book pdf lisp plt
  

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• How to Make Websites That Will Require Lots of Your Time and Energy
  

  rant web
  

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• No moar cookies
  

  privacy programming
  

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• The many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade
  

  historical javascript
  

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• Revontuli Colorscheme Collection
  

  design
  

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• Following up on the Python JIT
  

  performance python
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 28, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Wren - a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language
  

  plt
  

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• TIL: Exception.add_note
  

  python
  

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• copyparty: portable file server with resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, and more
  

  privacy python
  

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• Development shells with Nix: four quick examples
  

  nix
  

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• The JJ VCS Workshop: A Zero-to-Hero Speedrun
  

  vcs
  

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• Resizable structs in Zig
  

  zig
  

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• Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e'
  

  practices programming
  

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• Test results for AMD Zen 5
  

  hardware performance
  

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• Optimi-Zi(n)g Sudoku-Solving
  

  performance zig
  

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• Protest footage blocked as online safety act comes into force
  

  law
  

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• Specials (2021)
  

  satire unix
  

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• LLMs are bad at returning code in JSON
  

  vibecoding
  

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