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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 13, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The yaml document from hell
  programming rant
  Comments
• What if writing tests was a joyful experience?
  testing
  Comments
• Conc: Better structured concurrency for Go
  go
  Comments
• Grayscale on 1-bit LCDs (2022)
  programming
  Comments
• Turn-based strategy card game Duelyst open-sourced
  games
  Comments
• Why Polars uses less memory than Pandas
  performance python
  Comments
• NetBSD ASCII flag for the bootloader
  art netbsd
  Comments
• The Go runtime isn't aware of CFS quotas
  go performance
  Comments
• Writing a TLA⁺ tree-sitter grammar: my foray into free software
  formalmethods
  Comments
• C-- (2008)
  assembly compilers
  Comments
• Pictures of a Working Garbage Collector
  programming unix
  Comments
• My org-roam workflows for taking notes and writing articles
  emacs
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 11, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Architecture diagrams should be code
  programming
  Comments
• HAMMER2 file system for NetBSD
  dragonflybsd netbsd
  Comments
• Safari is released to the world (2013)
  browsers historical mac
  Comments
• Compiled and Interpreted Languages: Two Ways of Saying Tomato
  compilers plt
  Comments
• OpenZFS - The Final Word in File Systems
  osdev
  Comments
• PEP 703 – Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython
  performance python
  Comments
• Surprising Consequences of macOS’s Environment Variable Sanitization
  mac security
  Comments
• Native technologists ask Apache Software Foundation to change name
  culture
  Comments
• Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE
  hardware
  Comments
• Why deadlines are pointless and what to do instead
  practices
  Comments
• Pagination and the problem of the total result count
  databases performance
  Comments
• CVE-2022-46176: Cargo does not check SSH host keys
  rust security
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 8, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• CGI WTF
  web
  Comments
• A Brief Defense of XML
  practices
  Comments
• Production Twitter on One Machine: 100Gbps NICs and NVMe are fast
  performance rust
  Comments
• Memoirs from the old web: The GateKeeper access control system
  historical web
  Comments
• ChatGPT in DR SBAITSO
  ai
  Comments
• Dissecting Guix, Part 1: Derivations
  linux lisp nix
  Comments
• The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Comes to Guix Containers
  nix
  Comments
• Databases in 2022: A Year in Review
  databases
  Comments
• Rainbow Sort (sorting algorithm visualisation)
  visualization
  Comments
• I feel for the NetBSD community
  culture netbsd
  Comments
• “RSS” feed without separate XML?
  ask web
  Comments
• MacLynx beta 4: now with scrollbars and dialogue boxes
  browsers
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 3, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11?
  windows
  Comments
• Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"
  programming
  Comments
• Modeling Database Tables in Alloy
  formalmethods
  Comments
• Building a Frankenstein C64
  hardware
  Comments
• weathering software winter
  practices
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Classifying Python virtual environment workflows
  python
  Comments
• What to do about hotlinking
  web
  Comments
• From delimited continuations to algebraic effects in Haskell
  haskell
  Comments
• DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1000, 2 January 2023
  linux
  Comments
• The Next-Generation Universal Hlang compiler
  compilers wasm
  Comments
• NetBSD at Reproducible Builds Summit Venice 2022
  netbsd
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 21, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Sigils are an underappreciated programming technology
  apl programming
  Comments
• Boring Python: code quality
  practices python
  Comments
• Dr. Futamura's Projection Machine: From Interpreters to Compilers through a Marvelous Device
  slides compilers
  Comments
• Faster Go code by being mindful of memory
  go performance
  Comments
• Control-flow integrity
  compilers security
  Comments
• How to draw ugly lines really fast
  graphics
  Comments
• Upgrading my old Chumby 8 Linux kernel part 1: U-Boot
  hardware linux
  Comments
• NetBSD 10.0 BETA available
  netbsd unix
  Comments
• The topologist's world map
  graphics math
  Comments
• An Ode to Unit Tests: In Defense of the Testing Pyramid
  testing
  Comments
• Feature Preview: Gitea Actions
  devops
  Comments
• What not to forget when implementing a pattern-matching in Ruby for custom objects
  ruby
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 26, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The MIPS ThinkPad, kind of
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Glamorize your problem domain
  plt
  Comments
• On the strange joys of mainframe OSes and legacy tech that has survived into modern times
  hardware philosophy
  Comments
• IBM AIX for IA64 (Itanium) aka Project Monterey runs again
  hardware unix
  Comments
• WHOIS: Fragile, unparseable, obsolete... and universally relied upon
  networking
  Comments
• The Geeks way of checking what the outside wheather is like
  netbsd
  Comments
• Practical Systems Awareness
  distributed rust
  Comments
• What’s your favorite go to documentation tool for building team knowledge base
  ask practices programming
  Comments
• Notes from Tail Latency Aware Caching Paper by RobinHood
  performance
  Comments
• Applying TDD to Classes Accessing Files
  c++ testing
  Comments
• Xen Summit 2022: a recap
  event virtualization
  Comments
• Timeworks Word Writer 6 for the Commodore 64 Source Code (1991)
  assembly historical
  Comments

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

• Our roadmap for Nix
  nix
  Comments
• Kanye West's Stem Player - An engineering disaster
  hardware javascript
  Comments
• Why Programmers Can’t Stop Programs With Ctrl-C, but Used to Be Able To, and Why They Should Be Able to Again
  practices
  Comments
• NSA, NIST, and post-quantum cryptography
  cryptography security
  Comments
• Cramming 'Papers, Please' Onto Phones
  games mobile
  Comments
• NetBSD 9.3 released
  netbsd release
  Comments
• Air quality station built with Elixir
  elixir
  Comments
• Rust Analyzer's structural search and replace
  rust
  Comments
• Stack frame layout on x86-64
  assembly programming
  Comments
• Monad Confusion and the Blurry Line Between Data and Computation
  haskell
  Comments
• how floating point works
  video math programming
  Comments
• I solved Matt Parker's Wordle puzzle 100000 times faster
  video performance programming
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 1, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What's a condition system and why do you want one?
  plt
  Comments
• Nixpacks beat Buildpacks by almost two minutes
  nix
  Comments
• Going from Python to Guile Scheme
  lisp plt python
  Comments
• The Cell Programming Language
  plt
  Comments
• Building a Secure Software Supply Chain with GNU Guix
  nix security
  Comments
• OpenBSD has two new C compilers: chibicc and kefir
  c compilers openbsd
  Comments
• Abusing Cloudflare Workers
  security
  Comments
• What Metric to Use When Benchmarking?
  performance
  Comments
• Announcing the pkgsrc-2022Q2 branch
  netbsd unix
  Comments
• Live-patching security vulnerabilities inside the Linux kernel with eBPF Linux Security Module
  linux security
  Comments
• nettlep/magic: Scanner for decks of cards with bar codes printed on card edges
  hardware ios
  Comments
• Give Up GitHub
  law practices
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 19, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• V Language Review (2022)
  plt
  Comments
• Speeding up autoconf with caching
  freebsd netbsd unix
  Comments
• Switch to VPC Endpoints from NAT Gateways to Reduce Bandwidth Charges
  devops networking
  Comments
• rsync, article 1: Scenarios
  devops linux
  Comments
• The Connection Machine
  pdf distributed hardware programming
  Comments
• Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
  c devops netbsd osdev programming unix
  Comments
• Common DB schema change mistakes
  databases
  Comments
• Intel’s Netburst: Failure is a Foundation for Success
  hardware historical performance
  Comments
• Binary Golf Grand Prix: Crash
  event reversing
  Comments
• What’s the state of IDLs for JSON API?
  ask api
  Comments
• Is FreeBSD a Real UNIX?
  freebsd
  Comments
• Alternatives to installing npm packages globally
  javascript nodejs
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 5, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Move away from streaming platforms & take your music offline
  android linux
  Comments
• Benchmarking Malloc with Doom 3
  performance
  Comments
• Remembering Ned Freed (1959-2022)
  email historical person
  Comments
• WorldWideWeb, Part II
  web
  Comments
• PJW's Face (2018)
  historical
  Comments
• Boot drive encryption security on Windows
  security windows
  Comments
• C++20’s parenthesized aggregate initialization has some downsides
  c++
  Comments
• Prevent your computer sleeping with a webpage
  javascript
  Comments
• Smooth, non-invasive Haskell Stack and Nix shell integration
  haskell nix
  Comments
• Compiling a Subset of JavaScript to ARM Assembly in Haskell
  compilers haskell javascript
  Comments
• Lisp Machine Inc. K-machine
  hardware historical lisp
  Comments
• NetBSD and Friends :MCH2022
  devops netbsd osdev programming unix
  Comments