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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 7, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Editing stuff in prod
  practices
  Comments
• Why I invented “dash encoding”, a new encoding scheme for URL paths
  python web
  Comments
• Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA
  privacy
  Comments
• How did you learn AWS?
  ask devops
  Comments
• Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (1998)
  historical osdev windows
  Comments
• Alfis: Alternative Free Identity System
  merkle-trees networking rust
  Comments
• Kensington Microware's System Saver
  historical
  Comments
• Untangling mechanized proofs
  formalmethods
  Comments
• Which browsers are best for privacy?
  browsers privacy
  Comments
• ReScript on Deno: Declarative Command Line Tools
  javascript
  Comments
• Web-dev advice for building a localhost app w/o a steep learning curve?
  ask web
  Comments
• CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database
  databases distributed
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 9, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• My first impressions of web3
  merkle-trees
  Comments
• Lobsters battlestations and screenshots (2022)
  ask practices
  Comments
• good-cat, a cat that hates pipes
  show programming satire
  Comments
• Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista? (2012)
  windows
  Comments
• Make the Internet Yours Again With an Instant Mesh Network
  networking
  Comments
• Where is every IP Address?
  networking
  Comments
• Bevy 0.6 Released
  games release rust
  Comments
• Towards a hybrid snapshot/patch version control system
  release rust vcs
  Comments
• Shell Eval
  unix
  Comments
• Porting a Poker Hand Evaluator from C to Factor (2010)
  programming
  Comments
• How Effective Is Copyleft with Commercial Licensing at Making Money?
  ask law
  Comments
• mouseable: replace a mouse or tackpad with the keyboard
  hardware
  Comments

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

• How not to learn Rust
  rust
  Comments
• The Web3 Fraud
  distributed finance merkle-trees
  Comments
• mold 1.0
  release
  Comments
• Why I wrote my own Go HTTP client
  go
  Comments
• New Oberon+ to C99 transpiler for near native performance
  c compilers programming
  Comments
• Kinesis Advantage360 Ergonomic Keyboard
  hardware
  Comments
• Firefox 91ESR with Baseline Compiler/Baseline wasm for POWER9
  browsers javascript
  Comments
• Forth BBS 2, 1985 Bulletin Board software written in Forth
  historical programming
  Comments
• A brutally effective hash function in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Building a simple room-based chat application in Nim (using HTMX)
  programming
  Comments
• A Beginner's Guide to Parsing in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 11, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Are Dockerfiles good enough?
  devops
  Comments
• By default, scp(1) now uses SFTP protocol
  linux openbsd unix
  Comments
• Proof-of-work based captcha which is lightweight, self-hosted and GPLv3 licensed
  a11y security wasm web
  Comments
• Thoughts on Clojure UI framework
  clojure
  Comments
• Tailscale at DeepSource
  devops networking security
  Comments
• Can we add the -graphy to the crypto tag?
  merkle-trees meta
  Comments
• Providing a Public Salary History Page
  job
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• W X Y Z
  graphics linux unix
  Comments
• Clearing up Myths about Ada
  programming
  Comments
• Arris Cable Modem Teardown
  hardware reversing
  Comments
• Exercism v3 has launched
  education
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 20, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A day in the life of a professional software engineer
  satire
  Comments
• Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server
  email go
  Comments
• State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10?
  design windows
  Comments
• Blurring the lines between shell and editor
  emacs programming
  Comments
• The Wrong Way to Switch Operating Systems on Your Server
  devops linux
  Comments
• Reverse engineering and fixing a bug in the firmware of a "ThinkPad Compact USB Keyboard with TrackPoint"
  reversing
  Comments
• Verkle trees
  compsci merkle-trees
  Comments
• What does First Normal Form actually mean?
  databases
  Comments
• Licenses Alone Do Not Govern Behavior in Open Source
  culture
  Comments
• Data-Oriented Design (Or Why You Might Be Shooting Yourself in The Foot With OOP)
  performance practices programming
  Comments
• Video: Creating a macOS Droplet with AppleScript
  video mac
  Comments
• Sudoku as a SAT Problem (2006)
  pdf compsci
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 28, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
  programming
  Comments
• Why I still like C and strongly dislike C++
  c c++
  Comments
• Freaking blockchains: How do they work?
  merkle-trees
  Comments
• Small things that make APIs a litte bit better for its users
  api programming
  Comments
• Why is JRuby Slow?
  java performance ruby
  Comments
• Summoning Cthulhu by Parsing HTML with Regular Expressions
  programming
  Comments
• How to to_string() in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• AI has cracked a key mathematical puzzle for understanding our world
  ai math
  Comments
• JsonLogic
  plt
  Comments
• Here's an easier way to try Fuchsia OS on your computer
  osdev
  Comments
• immudb v1.0 - A key-value database with built-in cryptographic proof and verification
  crypto databases merkle-trees
  Comments
• Updating GCC GNAT (Ada) in pkgsrc/NetBSD
  netbsd programming unix
  Comments

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

• Magit 3.0 released
  emacs release vcs
  Comments
• Rust is a wave of the future
  rust
  Comments
• How we went from supporting 50 languages to all of them
  programming
  Comments
• rpg-cli - your filesystem as a dungeon
  games rust
  Comments
• Google is releasing Fuchsia OS, starting w/ 1st-gen Nest Hub
  osdev release
  Comments
• How software gets color wrong
  graphics
  Comments
• Marking up my Curriculum Vitae with Microformats2
  web
  Comments
• Ode to the Robot Butt
  erlang
  Comments
• RefinedC: Automating the Foundational Verification of C Code with Refined Ownership Types
  c formalmethods
  Comments
• Shrinking your Python application’s Docker image: an overview
  devops python
  Comments
• Zero to Monero - Second Edition
  pdf merkle-trees
  Comments
• Introducing Half-Double: New hammering technique for DRAM Rowhammer bug
  security
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 25, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Should we rebrand REST?
  api browsers web
  Comments
• Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1
  games performance
  Comments
• Urbit :: the good, the bad, and the insane
  osdev
  Comments
• Vim Modes Transition Diagram
  vim
  Comments
• You've got to upgrade Rebar3
  erlang security
  Comments
• Doom Engine source code review
  games graphics historical
  Comments
• Why the sad face?
  python
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• In praise of --dry-run
  dotnet ml programming
  Comments
• Why I prefer making useless stuff
  programming
  Comments
• How Blockchains Work
  merkle-trees
  Comments
• NetBSD/macppc on a PowerPC G4 Mac Mini
  mac netbsd osdev
  Comments

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

• What exactly was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]?
  historical unix
  Comments
• Playing the Open Source Game
  culture zig
  Comments
• RMS addresses the free software community
  culture person
  Comments
• Emacs JIT ready to merge
  emacs
  Comments
• zhuowei/nft_ptr
  c++ merkle-trees
  Comments
• Requesting an "incident" tag
  meta
  Comments
• Build a Raspberry Pi Linux System the Hard Way
  linux
  Comments
• Wing: blog engine in CHICKEN Scheme
  lisp web
  Comments
• Introducing Pipeworld: Spreadsheet Dataflow Computing
  show unix
  Comments
• Mugo, a toy compiler for a subset of Go that can compile itself
  assembly compilers go
  Comments
• Why does SSL client report google's certificate "self-signed"?
  security
  Comments
• guile's reader, in guile
  lisp
  Comments