hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #776 (2026-02-25): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses the role of typography as a uniquely human design element amidst an advancing “AI” landscape. It emphasizes that tools like “AI” struggle to replicate the nuance and cultural significance of human-crafted typefaces. Featured fonts include Television Sans, inspired by 1980s ads, and Sobremesa, designed for warmth and comfort.

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  • Drop #774 (2026-02-20): Let’s Get Visual

    Today’s themed! Drop features 2 spiffy CSS resources and a rly cool tool. Modern CSS Code Snippets compares legacy and modern CSS patterns; ASCII Silhouettify converts images to ASCII art; and CSS Doodle is for creating generative art using CSS-like rules.

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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 #772 (2026-02-16): Editorially Speaking

    Today’s Drop takes a big look at Vim 9.2’s release and finally pokes at Fresh, a new Rust-built terminal editor that offers an intuitive editing experience with tmux-like session persistence and robust features like LSP integration and lazy loading.

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  • Bonus Drop #110 (2026-02-14): Talk About The Weather

    Today’s Drop discusses three tools: Kaku, a macOS WezTerm fork enhancing ergonomics; Pake, a Tauri tool creating cross-platform desktop apps from URLs; and Fair Weather, a vanilla JS weather app scoring activities based on conditions.

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  • Drop #768 (2026-02-05): Docs & Diagrams

    Today’s Drop covers the release of Pandoc 3.9, whcih features a WASM build for client-side document processing, enhanced PDF support and configuration flexibility with JSON. It also pokes at mermaid-rs-renderer, a Rust-based tool for rendering Mermaid diagrams in various formats, and introduces Pretty Mermaid Skills which allows LLMs to generate and render Mermaid syntax into…

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  • Bonus Drop #108 (2026-01-25): Llamas; Maps; & Cats

    As promised, the weekend Bonus Drop covers Ollama’s launch of launch: a new feature enabling Claude Code to work with local models using a modified API. It also showcases Sightline which offers efficient searching for infrastructure assets within OpenStreetMap data. And it closes with “Kitty Cards”.

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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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  • Drop #751 (2026-01-02): Fool Around And Find Out Friday

    The Friday Drop covers: lint-http, a Rust-based forward proxy tool for analyzing HTTP traffic; a Cooked.wiki FOSS alternative along with the challenges food blogs face due to AI and LLMs in recipe content; and Columnar’s predictions for data infrastructure in 2026, focusing on Apache Arrow’s growth and the need for improved interoperability and accessibility in…

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