hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Bonus Drop #115 (2026-05-03): Terminal Velocity

    The latest (and, hopefully final only- Bonus Drop) showcases a cadre of terminal emulators, highlighting their unique features and technologies. It covers OpenWarp, Macterm, rootshell, Rio, and Foot, each with distinct attributes related to performance, design, and underlying technology. The author discusses usability for different systems, emphasizing safety and configurations while noting trends toward AI…

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  • Bonus Drop #113 (2026-04-19): A Safety Throughline

    Managed to crank out another Bonus Drop after a firehose of an onboarding week @ Censys. Today, we’ve got Kula, a Linux server monitoring tool that emphasizes security with deliberate mitigation measures. Also: SSH certificates improve key management, addressing the flaws of public key systems. Finally, an iTerm2 bug demonstrates vulnerabilities in terminal emulators, highlighting…

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  • Bonus Drop #111 (2026-02-22): Screech • Spruce Up • Sandbox

    The weekend Bonus Drop covers three key topics: an AWK script simulating a Bell 103 modem for data exfiltration, the revamped Go 1.26 ‘go fix’ tool enhancing code modernization, and Scraping Sandbox, an open-source web scraping platform offering a playground for developers to practice with synthetic e-commerce data in a “modern” site.

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  • Drop #774 (2026-02-19): Secured, Saved, Savvied, and Sublimed

    Today’s theme-less Drop discusses 4 topics: dotenvx, an enhanced .env management tool that improves security and multi-environment support; factbook.json, a project preserving the CIA World Factbook as structured JSON; and alpinestuff, a resource for learning Alpine.JS. Kanso Ink is also mentioned, offering terminal theme configurations.

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  • Drop #769 (2026-02-09): Mostly Mail And Meetings

    Today’s Drop discusses two tools in the Google Workspace ecosystem: gog, a CLI that simplifies API access for Gmail and other services + msgvault, a local Gmail archiver enabling offline analysis using DuckDB; It also covers duckdb-oast, a community extension for analyzing OAST domains.

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  • Drop #767 (2026-02-04): If It Walks Like A…

    Today’s make-up Drop discusses two new #DuckDB community extensions: duckdb_mcp, which integrates SQL with Model Context Protocol servers for advanced data analysis, and dns, enabling versatile DNS lookups. Additionally, DuckDB has enhanced its logging capabilities to support detailed debugging across multiple log types, improving usability and troubleshooting efficiency.

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  • Drop #765 (2026-01-30): Stashing Commands, Parsing the Future

    The Friday Drop covers cli-stash, a Bubble Tea-based micro-TUI for managing shell commands efficiently, and llparse with llhttp, a TypeScript-based parser generator.

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  • Drop #757 (2026-01-12): Monday Afternoon Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop discusses three projects: a cybersecurity-focused AI project using Shannon entropy to filter content, Gitingest for converting Git repositories into digestible formats, and S3Shells, a tool that allows users to interact with S3-compatible storage as if navigating a local filesystem.

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  • Drop #753 (2026-01-05): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop discusses advancements in scrollytelling using CSS rather than JavaScript, the CSVW/FDP standards for enhancing CSV files with structured metadata, and Craig Silverman’s new OSINT media venture, Indicator, aimed at teaching verification skills amid rising disinformation.

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  • Bonus Drop #106 (2026-01-04): K.I.S.S.

    The first Bonus Drop of 2026 presents three simplified tools: Mastoshare enhances Mastodon link sharing by routing users to their home instances without tracking; doxx allows terminal viewing of .docx files with formatting; nettool.sh is a Bash script that consolidates networking tasks for sysadmins. Each tool boosts efficiency in its respective domain.

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