The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 18, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• CRUNCH - a compiler for statically typed Scheme with a minimal runtime
  

  compilers lisp plt
  

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• Everyone gets bidirectional BFS wrong
  

  programming
  

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• Let's Encrypt will begin offering 6-day certificates
  

  security
  

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• Go Protobuf: The new Opaque API - The Go Programming Language
  

  go
  

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• Go's Weird Little Iterators
  

  go
  

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• Moon
  

  visualization
  

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• Tools for Go modules
  

  go
  

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• What's new in Ruby 3.4
  

  ruby
  

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• Why Should a Unix Shell Have Objects?
  

  programming unix
  

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• Contributing an mdoc reader to Pandoc
  

  haskell programming
  

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• Golang 1.24 is looking seriously awesome
  

  go
  

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• 20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 2)
  

  historical
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 16, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Xfce 4.20 released
  

  release
  

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• Load is not what you should balance: Introducing Prequal
  

  distributed performance
  

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• Should Programming Languages be Safe or Powerful?
  

  plt
  

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• Fully documented and annotated source code for Elite on the Commodore 64
  

  historical
  

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• Far From Random: Three Mistakes From Dart/Flutter's Weak PRNG
  

  cryptography
  

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• Solving Advent of Code at Compile Time with Rust Macros
  

  rust
  

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• Energy-Harvesting Electronic Holiday Card 2024
  

  hardware
  

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• Swift Language focus areas heading into 2025
  

  swift
  

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• WebTransport (WebSockets 2.0) talk at RubyConf
  

  video networking ruby web
  

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• Garbage Collected Smart Pointers in Rust via Concurrent Cycle Collection
  

  compsci plt rust
  

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• Performance of Rust's match vs. lookup tables (2019)
  

  performance rust
  

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• Now we’re all Forked
  

  swift
  

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

• Nobody Gets Fired for Picking JSON, but Maybe They Should?
  

  api
  

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• Forced to upgrade
  

  hardware
  

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• All Your Codebase
  

  c c++ zig
  

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• Mozilla Firefox removes "Do Not Track"
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• A brief history of Mac servers
  

  historical mac
  

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• The Google Willow thing
  

  programming
  

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• Rails is better low code than low code
  

  ruby
  

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• The new Vim project - What has changed after Bram
  

  video vim
  

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• Decentralised Open Indexes for Discovery (DOID)
  

  web
  

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• How to Actually Migrate Complex Systems in Infrastructure
  

  devops
  

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• Binary Versioning 1.0.0
  

  practices satire
  

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• Render README.org as HTML on Sourcehut
  

  emacs
  

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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 05, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Egoless Engineering
  

  scaling
  

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• Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here! - Phoenix Blog
  

  elixir release
  

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• A Brief Introduction to OCI Containers on FreeBSD
  

  freebsd
  

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• Speeding up Ruby by rewriting C in Ruby
  

  c compilers ruby rust
  

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• The Tube Computer: wall-mounted 8-bit homebrew computer from vintage thermionic valves
  

  hardware historical retrocomputing
  

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• Transferring Python Build Standalone Stewardship to Astral
  

  python
  

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• Rust9x update: Rust 1.84.0-beta
  

  release retrocomputing rust
  

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• Precomputation
  

  compsci
  

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• The Return of Procedural Programming
  

  video historical plt
  

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• New era of slop security reports for open source
  

  ai security
  

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• The Next Generation of the Heroku Platform
  

  devops
  

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• Designing Wild's incremental linking
  

  compilers
  

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