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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 18, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I've started using Mozilla Firefox and now I can never go back to Google Chrome
  browsers
  Comments
• How efficient can cat(1) be?
  performance unix
  Comments
• WIP Revised 7 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme
  lisp
  Comments
• ed cheatsheet
  unix
  Comments
• In Praise of Stacked PRs
  practices vcs
  Comments
• Logic as algebra
  math
  Comments
• Announcing Pyston-lite: our Python JIT as an extension module
  python
  Comments
• Pleasant debugging with GDB and DDD
  debugging
  Comments
• git-story: Create mp4 video animations of your Git commit history with 1 command
  vcs
  Comments
• What worries me about AI tooling
  ai philosophy
  Comments
• quickenv: An unintrusive environment manager
  show programming
  Comments
• Every programmer should care about UI design
  programming
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 15, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Porting OpenBSD pledge() to Linux
  linux openbsd
  Comments
• DNS Esoterica - Why you can't dig Switzerland
  networking
  Comments
• The Slow March of Progress in Programming Language Tooling
  programming
  Comments
• The Verification Gap: A Major Hurdle for the Industry Adoption of Formal Methods
  formalmethods
  Comments
• Plan B for UUIDs: double AES-128
  databases performance
  Comments
• Chinese numerals and char::is_numeric
  api philosophy rust
  Comments
• 1024cores
  programming
  Comments
• Functional programming is finally going mainstream
  plt
  Comments
• Quark Word Juggler
  historical
  Comments
• Nix – taming Unix with functional programming
  nix unix
  Comments
• Emacs zones to lift you up
  emacs
  Comments
• hunt-rs: Simplified Find command made with Rust
  linux rust
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 6, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• “Magic links” can end up in Bing search results — rendering them useless
  privacy security
  Comments
• Your next C compiler is a D compiler
  c d
  Comments
• Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation
  practices programming
  Comments
• Bun is a fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime
  javascript web
  Comments
• Superficial Simplicity
  philosophy plt
  Comments
• Did Microsoft violate OSS licenses with CoPilot?
  law
  Comments
• The History and Mystery Of Eliza
  transcript ai
  Comments
• A Note About Git Commit Messages (2008)
  practices vcs
  Comments
• immutable backups so simple that unborkable
  programming
  Comments
• tao: A hobbyist statically-typed functional language
  compilers plt
  Comments
• Watch Andreas Kling port SerenityOS's web engine to Linux in <2hrs
  video browsers linux programming
  Comments
• The SQLite Index Suggester
  databases
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 29, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I've locked myself out of my digital life
  security
  Comments
• Vim 9.0 released
  release vim
  Comments
• PRQL: a modern language for transforming data — a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement
  databases plt
  Comments
• Elligator: Hiding cryptographic key exchange as random noise
  cryptography
  Comments
• Notes on WebAssembly
  wasm
  Comments
• Mapping over table rows in org-mode
  emacs
  Comments
• Clang IR (CIR): a new IR for Clang
  compilers
  Comments
• Implementing RSS for my blog (yes, this one!)
  go
  Comments
• Highlights from Git 2.37
  release vcs
  Comments
• tolower() in bulk at speed
  performance
  Comments
• Throwaway development environments with Nix
  nix
  Comments
• Aphoristic noodling
  philosophy programming
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 14, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Foone reverse engineering Skifree (Twitter thread)
  reversing
  Comments
• Revealed: Our Plans For Thunderbird On Android
  email
  Comments
• Update to RFC4122: new UUID formats
  programming
  Comments
• Don't be that open-source user, don't be me
  philosophy programming
  Comments
• Smaller Static Sites with New Formats
  performance web
  Comments
• What I miss in Java, the perspective of a Kotlin developer
  java
  Comments
• JavaScript Hydration Is a Workaround, Not a Solution
  javascript web
  Comments
• Overview over how hyperlink operates (or: why is it so fast?)
  performance programming
  Comments
• Assembly instructions distribution
  assembly compilers
  Comments
• Making popular Ruby packages more secure
  ruby security
  Comments
• A review of Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps
  devops science
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 13, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• APE Loader
  osdev
  Comments
• A new protocol (IndieWeb adjacent): “Spring '83”
  release web
  Comments
• Computers are an inherently oppressive technology
  philosophy
  Comments
• Common Crawl
  web
  Comments
• Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview
  ai
  Comments
• Running Windows NT 4 MIPS on Qemu in 3 easy steps
  virtualization windows
  Comments
• The UNIX Time-Sharing System [1978]
  historical
  Comments
• Juni: a one-handed, 12-key chorded keyboard
  hardware
  Comments
• "We Really Don't Know How to Compute!" (2011)
  video distributed practices programming scaling
  Comments
• SIMD accelerated sorting in Java - how it works and why it was 3x faster
  java performance
  Comments
• Program = Proof
  pdf formalmethods
  Comments
• ProleText, encoding HTML before Markdown (and a modern reimplementation)
  historical perl
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 10, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The collapse of complex software
  philosophy
  Comments
• Solving Sudoku with Poetry's dependency resolver
  python
  Comments
• Quick look at user-mode file systems on macOS Ventura
  mac
  Comments
• Whiley gets Rusty
  compilers rust
  Comments
• Get Things Done with Emacs
  emacs
  Comments
• Handling Concurrency Without Locks
  python
  Comments
• Haiku Activity & Contract Report: May 2022
  osdev
  Comments
• Private Access Tokens: eliminating CAPTCHAs on iPhones and Macs with open standards
  release security web
  Comments
• When bad things happen to fast code
  web
  Comments
• Why We're Sticking with Ruby on Rails at GitLab
  ruby
  Comments
• Rust without the async (hard) part
  rust
  Comments
• Why I often implement things from scratch (2006)
  erlang
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 28, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Writing like a pro with vale & neovim
  vim
  Comments
• A City in a Bottle
  graphics javascript web
  Comments
• Thoughts on Forth Programming
  philosophy programming
  Comments
• How I built zig-sqlite
  c zig
  Comments
• Where Contributors Have Problems with Oil
  programming unix
  Comments
• QuickLook plugins list
  mac
  Comments
• Finding and fixing a bug in a C++ toolchain
  compilers debugging
  Comments
• On removing APIs - Linux status bar, GNOME system tray and ElementaryOS AppIndicators
  api historical linux
  Comments
• Tetra - Full stack reactive component framework for Django using Alpine.js
  javascript python web
  Comments
• rqlite – distributed SQLite: v7.5.0 trading durability for higher write performance
  databases distributed
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• A Conference About Software You Can Love
  programming
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 16, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Operator precedence by textual substitution
  fortran historical plt
  Comments
• Fly.io: the Reclaimer of Heroku's Magic
  devops programming
  Comments
• The “Activate Windows” watermark ported to Linux
  c linux
  Comments
• Golang Diaries: Generics
  go
  Comments
• Wrong by Default
  practices
  Comments
• The Dawn of Lightweight Concurrency for Java and Clojure
  clojure
  Comments
• wttr.in: cURL the weather
  web
  Comments
• glibc_version_header: Build portable Linux binaries without using an ancient distro
  linux
  Comments
• sqlite-utils: a nice way to import data into SQLite for analysis
  databases
  Comments
• The overengineered Solution to my Pigeon Problem
  ai go hardware python
  Comments
• A passion for programming
  philosophy
  Comments
• GPU-Centered Font Rendering Directly from Glyph Outlines (2017)
  pdf graphics
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 11, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Programming Style Influences
  education openbsd philosophy
  Comments
• If Programming Languages Were Futurama Characters
  programming satire
  Comments
• Announcing the PyOxy Python Runner
  python
  Comments
• Fedora 36 released
  linux release
  Comments
• Using Java's Project Loom to build more reliable distributed systems
  distributed java
  Comments
• Fitting Everything Together
  linux systemd
  Comments
• Security advisory: malicious crate rustdecimal
  security
  Comments
• Mastodon IP anonymization
  privacy security
  Comments
• Python 3.11: possessive quantifiers and atomic grouping added to re module
  python
  Comments
• The Two Generals Problem
  distributed
  Comments
• Existential optics
  haskell
  Comments
• Adding CSV support to (Go)AWK
  compilers go
  Comments