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

• How to not build the Torment Nexus
  

  philosophy
  

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• Setting up a CI server for Forgejo
  

  devops testing
  

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• I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Bevy's Fifth Birthday
  

  games rust
  

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• Creating the longest possible Ski Jump in The Games: Winter Challenge
  

  games retrocomputing reversing
  

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• Compiling a Lisp: Closure conversion
  

  lisp
  

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• Faster substring search with SIMD in Zig
  

  performance zig
  

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• ChaCha12-BLAKE3: Secure, Simple and Fast authenticated and committing encryption
  

  cryptography release
  

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• ohyaml.wtf | YAML Quiz
  

  devops
  

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• TCP Client Self-Connect (2013)
  

  networking
  

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• All-in on Omarchy at 37signals
  

  linux
  

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• Commit Mono
  

  programming
  

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

• Zig's Lovely Syntax
  

  zig
  

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• Lobsters client for Emacs
  

  show emacs
  

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• The First Time I Was Almost Fired From Apple
  

  design historical
  

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• JanetDocs
  

  show lisp
  

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• Why do we even need SIMD instructions ?
  

  performance
  

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• Why Racket? Why Lisp? (2014)
  

  lisp
  

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• What even is distributed systems
  

  distributed
  

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• Notes on a smaller Rust (2019)
  

  plt
  

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• GPTs and feeling left behind
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Why I prefer human-readable file formats
  

  practices
  

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• Creating high quality electronics schematics
  

  hardware
  

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• Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers
  

  networking
  

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

• The how and why of GitHub to Codeberg
  

  privacy web
  

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• Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Be Careful with Go Struct Embedding
  

  go
  

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• Gate-level emulation of an Intel 4004 in 4004 bytes of C
  

  c
  

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• We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles
  

  programming
  

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• Why are Windows semiannual updates named H1 and H2?
  

  windows
  

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• A Proper X86 Assembler in Haskell Using the Escardó-Oliva Functional
  

  compilers haskell
  

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• Digital hygiene: Emails
  

  email practices
  

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• zig-error-patterns
  

  zig
  

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• Rethinking devtools: Escaping the Cloud and SaaS trap
  

  api scaling web
  

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• Open models by OpenAI
  

  ai release
  

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• Python performance myths and fairy tales
  

  python
  

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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 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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