hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Bonus Drop #99 (2025-09-20): Train Of Thought

    The Bonus Drop has an ASAM update; presents Sniffly, an open-source dashboard by Chip Huyen for analyzing Claude Code usage (with some code & SQL to get similar data from Zed AI); and links to PostHog’s redesigned website resembling a desktop OS for better interaction and usability.

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  • Drop #712 (2025-09-18): Toss-Up Thursday

    Today’s Drop discusses diverse topics including readability tools to enhance writing clarity, the challenges of obtaining structured JSON from LLMs, and Apple’s introduction of a private CSS property for Liquid Glass effects.

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  • Bonus Drop #97 (2025-09-07): Bridging, Building & Browsing

    The Bonus Drop discusses the transition from Inoreader to FreshRSS, highlighting RSS-Bridge as a tool to convert websites into RSS feeds. It explores using SmolLM3 for named-entity recognition, and reviews Flow, a Chromium-based browser considered as a potential alternative to Arc after its acquisition by Atlassian.

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  • Drop #705 (2025-09-05): If It Walks Like A 🦆…

    Today’s 🦆 Drop showcases DuckDB’s capabilities for processing NGINX logs and integrating with Observable Notebooks 2.0 for interactive SQL querying. It also introduces the Textplot extension for real-time visualizations in #DuckDB SQL queries.

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  • Drop #704 (2025-09-04): Toss Up Thursday

    This unplanned anti-“AI” themed Drop covers: FreshRSS, a powerful self-hosted RSS aggregator; Compromise, a JavaScript NLP library for practical text analysis; and “Clankers Die on Christmas,” a satirical take on artificial intelligence.

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  • Drop #701 (2025-08-28): Thursday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop discusses advancements in CSS, highlighted by the calc() function, and its surprising applications, particularly regarding infinity in calculations. It also examines vulnerabilities in AI image scaling as reported by Trail of Bits. Lastly, it mentions Yamanotes, a music box featuring JR Yamanote Line melodies.

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  • Bonus Drop #95 (2025-08-24): Vibe-less Coding; Vibe-ful Checking

    The weekend Bonus Drop emphasizes the importance of security for vibe or vibe-less personal web apps, highlighting key strategies such as SSRF protection, rate limiting, robust CSRF tokens, & more. It also provides a plethora of prompts to help you infuse security into your vibe-coded creations.

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  • Drop #698 (2025-08-22): Friday Morning Grab Bag

    The Friday Drop presents a novelist’s tiny model improving creative writing through Fibonacci word intervals, MDN’s redesign enhancing usability for web developers, and Lucide, an open-source icon library featuring customizable, scalable icons for various projects.

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  • Drop #693 (2025-08-11): Long-form Monday

    Today’s Drop features Jimmy Hartzell’s critique of LLMs as unreliable assistants needing human oversight, Ian Ireland’s explanation of SpiderMonkey’s innovative four-tier execution model enhancing JavaScript performance, and concerns about Flock’s AI surveillance system flagging individuals based on travel patterns, raising issues of transparency, bias, and surveillance.

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  • Drop #691 (2025-08-07): Short & Sweet

    The post expresses strong discontent regarding Perplexity.ai’s partnership with Truth Social, viewing it as empowering misinformation and contributing to societal division. The author shares frustrations about the difficulty in terminating the service and reflects on past utility, while ultimately concluding with a resolute rejection of the platform.

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