The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• They're putting blue food coloring in everything
  

  culture rant
  

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• Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org
  

  rant
  

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• Why you should choose HTMX for your next web-based side project - and ditch the crufty MPA and complex SPA
  

  programming web
  

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• Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 (an update)
  

  vibecoding
  

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• I’m Tired of Talking About AI
  

  culture rant vibecoding
  

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• The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Introducing XMLUI
  

  web
  

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• Rust Clippy performance status update
  

  rust
  

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• Async I/O on Linux and durability
  

  performance
  

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• Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts
  

  devops freebsd
  

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• Using leaked data to examine vulnerabilities in SMS routing and SS7 signalling
  

  security
  

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• FAQ: What’s a @KevlinHenney?
  

  culture person
  

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

• Do you understand f-strings?
  

  python
  

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• Async Rust Is A Bad Language (2023)
  

  rust
  

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• Pimping my Casio: Part Deux
  

  hardware
  

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• Jsonptr: Using Wuffs’ Memory-Safe, Zero-Allocation JSON Decoder (2020)
  

  c compilers performance
  

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• The current technology is not ready for proper blending
  

  graphics
  

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• Shutting down Clear Linux OS
  

  linux
  

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• How I Fixed Ruby's Most Annoying Problem: 60-Second Gem Installs
  

  ruby
  

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• Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration
  

  linux security
  

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• polycode: Encode a binary file as a rational polynomial function
  

  math rust
  

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• When Root Meets Immutable: OpenBSD chflags vs. Log Tampering
  

  openbsd security
  

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• My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup
  

  devops
  

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• Frequently Asked Questions about FHE
  

  cryptography math
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Death by a thousand slops
  

  security
  

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• Trying Guix: A Nixer's Impressions
  

  nix
  

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• OpenZFS Bug Ported to Zig
  

  zig
  

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• Automerge 3.0
  

  distributed release
  

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• The sound of inevitability
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Diving into Plasma Bigscreen
  

  linux
  

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• Bedrock: A tiny, portable 8-bit virtual computer (uxn fork)
  

  osdev virtualization
  

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• Wikipedia outage report for May's Pope traffic spike
  

  devops
  

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• Helix 25.07 Highlights
  

  editors
  

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• Game of Trees Hub
  

  openbsd
  

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• Initial implementation of the experimental C++ Lifetime Safety Analysis (-Wexperimental-lifetime-safety) has just landed in Clang
  

  c++
  

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• Adding lookbehinds to rust-lang/regex
  

  rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Faking a JPEG
  

  graphics security
  

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• Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD
  

  networking openbsd
  

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• Measuring power network frequency using junk you have in your closet
  

  hardware programming
  

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• Placing functions
  

  rust
  

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• Dyson Sphere Program's new multithreading framework
  

  games performance
  

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• Working through ‘Writing A C Compiler’
  

  c compilers
  

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• Not So Fast: AI Coding Tools Can Actually Reduce Productivity
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Request
  

  law
  

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• Hanami and the elephant in the room
  

  ruby
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Computer Scientists Figure Out How To Prove Lies
  

  cryptography
  

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• Multi-player Durable Stream Playground
  

  databases distributed
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Variadic Generics ideas that won’t work for Rust
  

  plt rust
  

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• Monitoring my Homelab, Simply
  

  distributed go networking
  

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• Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
  

  vibecoding
  

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• About Clew
  

  web
  

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• Get the location of the ISS using DNS
  

  distributed
  

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• An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too)
  

  c rust
  

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• Kubernetes is not just for Black Friday
  

  devops
  

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• MicroHs, a tiny Haskell Compiler
  

  video compilers haskell
  

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• (Quite) A Few Words About Async
  

  distributed programming
  

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• What's //go:nosplit for?
  

  go
  

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• Lessons From Creating My First Text Adventure
  

  games
  

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• Using fs_usage to see what files a process is using
  

  mac
  

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