The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• what is a build system, anyway?
  

  programming
  

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• Build Systems A La Carte (2018)
  

  pdf programming
  

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• Editors should have an opt-in for less assistance (2024)
  

  editors
  

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• Rats Play Doom
  

  games
  

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• Indexed Reverse Polish Notation, an Alternative to AST
  

  compilers
  

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• icl: Interactive Common Lisp: an enhanced REPL
  

  lisp
  

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• A distraction-free writing environment
  

  editors
  

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• Stop writing if statements for your CLI flags
  

  javascript
  

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• How I wrote JustHTML using coding agents
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Using nvi as a Minimal and Fast Text Editor
  

  editors
  

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• The <time> element should actually do something
  

  a11y web
  

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• Indices point between elements (2015)
  

  programming
  

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

• Announcing Rust 1.92.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Let's Embed a Go Program into the Linux Kernel
  

  linux
  

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• The Cost Of a Closure in C
  

  c
  

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• Useful patterns for building HTML tools
  

  javascript vibecoding
  

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• CDKTF has been deprecated
  

  devops
  

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• Compressing embedded files in Go
  

  go
  

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• Nature's many attempts to evolve a Nostr
  

  distributed
  

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• Using edge detection to preserve significant features while downsampling
  

  graphics javascript programming
  

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• Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained
  

  lisp
  

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• Installing Every NixOS Package
  

  nix
  

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• Fish Alpinism
  

  art openbsd
  

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• Litestream VFS
  

  databases
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Using LLMs at Oxide
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Use Python for Scripting
  

  python
  

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• Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler (yes)
  

  c compilers rust
  

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• Vanilla CSS is all you need
  

  css
  

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• FreeBSD 15: Why You’ll Want It
  

  freebsd
  

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• Discovering the indieweb with calm tech
  

  browsers web
  

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• It Is Worth It To Optimize Images For Your Site
  

  web
  

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• What I learnt about making websites by reading two thousand web pages
  

  web
  

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• When square pixels aren’t square
  

  web
  

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• The Path to Mojo 1.0
  

  plt
  

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• The Gerrit code review iceberg
  

  osdev
  

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• How to make a macOS screen saver
  

  mac
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 07, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Flow Control: a programmer's text editor
  

  editors vim zig
  

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• Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via third-party upgrade kit
  

  hardware
  

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• Reminder about Framework Laptop
  

  culture
  

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• How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM
  

  hardware
  

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• GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst
  

  security
  

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• Leaving Intel
  

  performance person
  

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• Should CSS be Constraints?
  

  css
  

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• I want a better build executor
  

  programming
  

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• Perl's decline was cultural
  

  perl
  

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• What's the Point of Learning Functional Programming?
  

  haskell
  

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• Why We Built Lightpanda in Zig
  

  zig
  

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• The Resonant Computing Manifesto
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 05, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer
  

  practices
  

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• Super-flat ASTs
  

  compilers performance
  

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• SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0
  

  security web
  

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• PGlite - Embeddable Postgres
  

  databases wasm
  

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• SWI-Prolog 10.0.0 released
  

  release
  

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• Teaching an LLM a Niche Diagraming Language
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Alpine Linux 3.23.0 Released: apk-tools v3, linux-stable replaces linux-edge
  

  linux
  

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• Critical Security Vulnerability in React Server Components
  

  javascript security
  

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• Ferrocene 25.11.0 now available
  

  release rust
  

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• Local-first is not offline-first
  

  distributed web
  

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• Marathon OS: A gesture-based mobile shell and Linux system inspired by BB10
  

  linux mobile
  

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• Django 6.0 released
  

  python web
  

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