The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 26, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Chrome registers a global shortcut for Gemini popup window
  

  browsers mac windows
  

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• A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway
  

  programming
  

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• Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap
  

  dotnet go performance
  

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• stinkpot: sqlite-backed shell history
  

  show go
  

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• Zig by Example
  

  zig
  

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• Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB, Affecting Shizuku, libadb and Developers
  

  android
  

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• We Are Not Special (2021)
  

  practices
  

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• Your harddrive is probably full
  

  culture performance practices
  

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• Interview with a Maintainer
  

  satire
  

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• git rebase -i is not that scary
  

  vcs
  

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• Systems and Delays (2026)
  

  math
  

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• the perils of parsing type inference declarations in c
  

  c
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 25, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Don't take the black pill
  

  video culture
  

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• Making GIFs from 35mm film photography
  

  art
  

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• You should selfhost your mail (in 2026)
  

  email
  

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• Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out
  

  video c c++
  

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• FreeBSD ports frozen after someone commits the entire 150MB Linux Copilot binary
  

  freebsd
  

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• Software Should Work Worked
  

  event
  

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• Jolt: running Clojure on Chez Scheme
  

  clojure lisp programming vibecoding
  

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• On Accountability
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The PImpl idiom and the C++26 std::indirect type
  

  c++
  

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• Prompt Caching In Agents
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Spatial languages: writing code in 2D
  

  plt
  

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• The case for MUDs in modern times
  

  games retrocomputing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 24, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Calm technologies that excite me
  

  hardware
  

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• I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
  

  security
  

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• Justif: Knuth-Plass justification and microtypography for the web
  

  show design vibecoding web
  

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• Everyone Should Know SIMD
  

  performance zig
  

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• John C. Dvorak has died
  

  person
  

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• Why care about programming languages
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• Your analytics are lying to you
  

  web
  

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• Taking OCaml and Eio for a spin
  

  ml
  

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• Unicode Variation Selector-15 and some of my tears
  

  programming
  

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• Silent Replacement of Trusted macOS App Executables
  

  mac security
  

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• Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++
  

  c++ graphics
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 21, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I wrote an API client for my water-cooled bed
  

  hardware zig
  

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• Gitolite
  

  practices vcs
  

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• Meta Garbage Collection: Using OCaml's GC to GC Rust
  

  ml rust
  

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• InvisiCaps: The Fil-C Capability Model
  

  c compilers
  

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• Minimal Git CI using hooks
  

  programming
  

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• Cagire - Forth-based live coding sequencer
  

  concatenative
  

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• Git email patch review addon for Thunderbird
  

  show email vcs vibecoding
  

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• email encryption
  

  cryptography email
  

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• Running microVMs in Proxmox VE, The Easy Way
  

  linux virtualization
  

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• Building an AmigaOS Development Environment in 2026
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Shake Blog
  

  haskell release
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What is your favorite blog to read recently?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Gleam has mirrored its source code on tangled (an AT-protocol based forge)
  

  gleam vcs
  

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• Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers
  

  math
  

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• wp2shell: Pre Authentication RCE in WordPress Core
  

  security web
  

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• The computer at the bottom of a canal
  

  historical
  

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• The death and rebirth of my home server
  

  linux nix
  

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• Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
  

  practices web
  

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• More emulation goodness, an Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows
  

  retrocomputing virtualization
  

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• Haunt 0.4.0 released
  

  lisp
  

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• How does Pangram work?
  

  ai
  

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• PowerShell over SSH in 2026: OpenSSH on Windows, Key Auth, and PowerShell 7 Remoting
  

  windows
  

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• The Java Story | The Official Documentary
  

  video java
  

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