The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 26, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Big problems at the timezone database
  java
  Comments
• Why I Use Nim instead of Python for Data Processing
  programming
  Comments
• OCaml 4.13.0
  ml release
  Comments
• Why We Killed Our End-to-End Test Suite
  practices programming testing
  Comments
• No, We Won’t Have a Video Call for That
  practices
  Comments
• A terminal case of Linux
  linux rust
  Comments
• Fedora Workstation: Our Vision for Linux Desktop
  linux
  Comments
• Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (2007)
  security
  Comments
• Vectorizing xxHash for Fun and Profit (2013)
  c performance
  Comments
• Roots (PDP-8 emulator for the iPad)
  ios virtualization
  Comments
• Transactional Tests for Rails running outside of rails (react, detox, cypress)
  ruby testing
  Comments
• Code Smell: Primitive Obsession
  video plt practices
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 18, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ditch your version manager
  programming
  Comments
• Where are IPv3 and IPv5?
  historical networking
  Comments
• Using Podman with BuildKit, the better Docker image builder
  devops
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Shenandoah in OpenJDK 17: Sub-millisecond GC pauses
  java performance
  Comments
• Easy Type-Safe Integer Types In C++
  c++
  Comments
• Version Control Without Git
  vcs
  Comments
• the keyword `class` has no more reason to exist
  c++
  Comments
• Building Common Lisp Executables
  lisp
  Comments
• Chatons
  culture philosophy
  Comments
• chibicc can bootstrap cproc
  show c compilers
  Comments
• Linux Executables Deployed as Stealth Windows Loaders
  security
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 9, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Maintain it With Zig
  c c++ zig
  Comments
• tree-grepper
  release
  Comments
• sunfishcode/mustang: Program startup written in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• trash-d: A near drop-in replacement for rm that uses the trash bin
  show d unix
  Comments
• Bits relating to Alpine security initiatives in August
  linux security
  Comments
• Pumpkin OS
  osdev
  Comments
• Decoding Voyager 1
  science
  Comments
• rpg-cli [v1.0.0] - your filesystem as a dungeon
  games rust
  Comments
• A cult I almost joined (2005)
  lisp satire
  Comments
• FD 100
  programming
  Comments
• Monads, part six: But, really, what is a monad?
  compsci
  Comments
• Crux is evolving into XTDB
  clojure databases
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 6, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Paragon NTFS driver approved and merged into Linux kernel
  linux
  Comments
• Progress on C23
  c
  Comments
• Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC
  historical
  Comments
• x11docker: Run GUI applications and desktops in docker
  linux
  Comments
• Cache splash in Telum means seventh heaven for POWER11?
  hardware
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Javascript Anti Debugging — Some Next Level Sh*t (Part 2— Abusing Chromium Devtools Scope Pane)
  javascript
  Comments
• kubescape: a tool for testing if Kubernetes is deployed securely
  devops security
  Comments
• Programming with Proofs
  video plt
  Comments
• Caches, Modes, and Unstable Systems
  distributed
  Comments
• isValid()? Establish invariants and avoid zombie objects
  c++
  Comments
• A Retrospective on the Dorado, A High-Performance Personal Computer (1983)
  pdf hardware historical practices
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 5, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Wheel Reinvention Jam
  event
  Comments
• Making world-class docs takes effort
  practices
  Comments
• nntpserver.py, no external dependency NNTP server library for writing server/bridges with ease
  show python
  Comments
• Pirating GPL Software
  culture law
  Comments
• Yet another reason to not use printf (or write C code in general)
  c c++
  Comments
• yad: create ad-hoc gtk GUIs from shell
  c graphics linux programming
  Comments
• PC-86-DOS
  historical
  Comments
• What’s in a license
  security
  Comments
• The Descent to C (2013)
  c
  Comments
• NEC’s Forgotten FPUs
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Arctic Adventure: A Lost 1981 TRS-80 Adventure Game
  games historical
  Comments
• How to use bookmarks in bash/zsh
  linux mac
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 30, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A new way of blogging about Golang
  go
  Comments
• Hell Is Other REPLs
  lisp
  Comments
• Moving to modern Neovim
  vim
  Comments
• Introduction to Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations (HoTT/UF) with Agda
  math plt
  Comments
• Let's get hands-on with QBE
  compilers
  Comments
• Reverse engineering software licencing from early-2000s abandonware – Part 1
  reversing
  Comments
• Big company tale: six months for a list and a button
  culture
  Comments
• taviso/nntpit: minimalist reddit2nntp gateway
  c
  Comments
• The (too) many pitfalls of VLA in C
  c
  Comments
• wuffs: Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely
  plt security
  Comments
• Building solutions to problems that no one knows exist yet
  compsci
  Comments
• vm86-based Venix emulator
  unix virtualization
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 23, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• First class comments
  programming
  Comments
• Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century
  historical unix
  Comments
• Linux is dead, long-live Docker monoculture
  devops freebsd rant
  Comments
• Remote desktop on NetBSD with Xnest (no VNC)
  netbsd
  Comments
• mojozork: Online, multiplayer Zork
  c games
  Comments
• The Perils of File Typing
  historical programming
  Comments
• Large Rust Workspaces
  practices rust
  Comments
• One week with FreeBSD 13 on an Acer Aspire One ZG5
  freebsd hardware
  Comments
• GitUI v0.17 adds: compare commits
  release rust vcs
  Comments
• Speeding up IndexedDB reads and writes
  browsers performance web
  Comments
• PlsExplain: A small dynamic programming language where every value is explained by a comment
  programming
  Comments
• FreeBSD development on Docker support
  devops freebsd osdev
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 18, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• The Quest for Very Wide Outlines
  graphics
  Comments
• How Free Monads Yield Extensible Effects
  haskell programming
  Comments
• Programming Language Fragility
  compilers
  Comments
• Speeding up `atan2f` by 50x
  assembly c math performance
  Comments
• New Heterodox Mono: A Didone-esque Monospaced Typeface based on Alexey Kryukov's Old Standard TT
  design
  Comments
• Announcing Delta – Operational Transform in Elixir
  elixir
  Comments
• Adventures in WebRTC: Making Phone Calls from XMPP
  networking
  Comments
• Introducing incomplete: A Simple Clojure Code Completion Library
  clojure
  Comments
• Another year of Sofle keyboard
  hardware
  Comments
• Contributing to emacs
  emacs
  Comments
• Mapping concepts to colors (terribly) with the Oklab perceptual colospace
  graphics
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 14, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Rust GUI Infrastructure
  a11y design graphics rust
  Comments
• PackagingCon 2021 - a conference for package manager developers and packagers
  event
  Comments
• TLDs -- Putting the 'Fun' in the top of the DNS
  networking
  Comments
• Should the browser use all available memory?
  osdev performance
  Comments
• That One Cool Reader Trick
  haskell programming
  Comments
• Why Observability Requires a Distributed Column Store
  distributed
  Comments
• User Methods
  programming
  Comments
• Supporting half-precision floats is really annoying
  compilers plt
  Comments
• Thunderbird 91 Available Now
  email release
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Atkinson Dithering (2020)
  design graphics mac
  Comments
• Your First THINK C Program (2020)
  c historical mac
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 13, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Breaking the web forward
  browsers web
  Comments
• Kind: A modern proof language
  formalmethods plt
  Comments
• Paranoid NixOS on AWS
  devops linux
  Comments
• FreeBSD Experiment Rethinks The OS Install
  freebsd
  Comments
• A future for SQL on the web
  databases javascript web
  Comments
• Session switching with the tmux menu
  unix
  Comments
• C programming language extension: Cedro pre-processor
  show c compilers plt
  Comments
• New features in Neovim 0.5
  vim
  Comments
• Essence
  osdev
  Comments
• Procedurally generated fish drawings in javascript
  graphics javascript
  Comments
• GitHub’s Engineering Team has moved to Codespaces
  practices release
  Comments
• String Interpolation in C# 10 and .NET 6
  dotnet
  Comments