hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #488 (2024-06-27): “No, Thanks. I’m Just Browsing.”

    Today’s Drop covers a variety of browser-related topics. It discusses alternatives to console.log, the impact of AI on browsers, and [re-]introduces Ladybird, a new HTML/CSS/JS-rendering engine.

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  • Drop #487 (2024-06-25): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of “The Drop” features a full inference engine in a font, some longform blathering on fonts and road signs, and a featured set of fun pixel fonts.

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  • Drop #486 (2024-06-24): Monday Afternoon Grab Bag

    New tools included in today’s grab bag Drop are: qq, a CLI transcoder, and Gotenberg, a document format converter. Additionally, “Anonymous Letters” offers a service for your more criminal endeavours.

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  • Drop #482 (2024-06-17): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    The Drop is back from holiday and starting the week with a grab bag of resources, including a deep-dive into Apple’s new AI ecosystem, a *blazing* fast Rust HTML-to-Markdown converter, and something spiffyfor the cartographers out there to drool over.

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  • Drop #480 (2024-06-06): Happy ThursdAI

    Today’s AI-centric edition of the Drop covers ChatDB, a browser-based tool for text-to-SQL ops; DataTrove, a platform-agnostic framework designed to simplify data processing tasks for AI pipelines; and, Google (et al.’s) attempt to use AI to envirowash AI.

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  • Drop #476 (2024-05-30): Happy ThursdAI!

    Another AI edition of the Drop! Today’s focus is on “research”. Perplexity introduces “Pages”, a feature for creating visually appealing deep content. HyperMink develops “HyperMink Desktop” to locally run large language models for privacy. And, the AI paper mills’ proliferation poses a threat to scientific integrity.

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  • Drop #475 (2024-05-28): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Typography Tuesday Drop dives into technical aspects of fonts, highlighting Glyph-ByT5’s character-level text enhancement, opentype.js’s font manipulation capabilities, and Spotify’s new customizable font, Spotify Mix.

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  • Drop #474 (2024-05-23): Holiday D20 Edition

    A extra random Drop is out today featuring edge functions for AI bot blocking, “abort bars”, NextDNS in context, and updates to Zed & llamafile.

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  • Drop #472 (2024-05-22): Happy ThursdAI

    Today’s AI-focused edition of the Drop we cover the need to defend against AI misuse. First, we introduce the concept of ai.txt for controlling data mining. We then look at strategies for blocking malicious AI bots and take a look at what we might be able to do w/r/t poisoning AI models. These strategies aim…

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  • Bonus Drop #49 (2024-05-19): 🦙s All The Way Down

    The weekend Bonus Drop covers various AI-centric tools like llamafile, whisperfile, and Firecrawl. llamafile simplifies the deployment of LLM/GPT models for local use, while whisperfile focuses on converting audio files. Firecrawl is a tool for crawling web content and converting it into Markdown format, and is 100% usable in a non-AI context.

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