hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Bonus Drop #87 (2025-06-22): Taking One For The Team

    The weekend Bonus Drop reviews Microsoft’s basic terminal text editor, edit, deemed unremarkable due to its lack of features. It highlights the Raycast Ollama extension, showcasing its capabilities for efficiently managing local and remote LLM models with advanced integrations. Finally, it introduces ttl.sh, an ephemeral Docker image registry for secure, temporary sharing without authentication.

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  • Bonus Drop #86 (2025-06-15): I Think You May Be Projecting

    The Weekend Bonus Drop covers two data engineering projects utilizing #DuckDB. The first project improves rock-climbing trip planning by integrating climbing routes with precise weather forecasts. The second project organizes Garmin activity data into a clean database. Both exemplify real-world engineering challenges for personal projects, emphasizing practical problem-solving and hands-on learning in data management.

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  • Drop #663 (2025-06-11): Wednesday Morning Grab Bag

    The midweek Drop covers MarkText, a FOSS Markdown editor with real-time preview and advanced features; fingerprinting w/WASM, highlighting its precision + privacy implications; & Cerberus, a Caddy plugin that implements SHA-256 challenges to combat automated AI bot abuse, prioritizing service protection over user convenience.

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  • Drop #661 (2025-06-05): Context Is Critical

    Today’s drop reflects on Postman’s MCP “factory” which simplifies MCP server generation, but raises security concerns, as Virus Total reports nearly 8% of deployed servers (not just from Postman’s tool) showing vulnerabilities. It also talks about and posits on the “Natural Language Web” (NLWeb) — a protocol for querying websites in natural language, prompting debates…

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  • Drop #660 (2025-06-04): Cyber Cyber Cyber 👨🏼‍🍳 🤖

    Today’s Drop is 100% focused on CyberChef👨🏼‍🍳! CyberChef is an intuitive browser-based tool for data manipulation and cryptography, allowing users to create recipes for data transformations effortlessly. The CyberChef Server offers a RESTful API for automated operations, while the CyberChef MCP server enables AI agents to perform tasks autonomously, enhancing data analysis capabilities. Explore these…

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  • Bonus Drop #84 (2025-05-31): Shop^w Infer Local With Context

    Today’s Bonus Drop discusses the integration of an MCP server within a local Ollama workflow for improved contextual inference. It emphasizes the importance of model selection, particularly favoring qwen2.5-coder for its performance and context handling. The MCP paradigm enhances modularity and flexibility, streamlining tool calling processes while maintaining conversation state effectively. Includes links to working…

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  • Drop #649 (2025-05-05): A Python State Of Mind

    Today’s Drop discusses 3 Python (yes…*python*) projects: Docling, a library focused on accurate document processing; Notary, which generates badges to verify the provenance of Python packages on PyPI; and CVE Search MCP, a server for querying CVE data. Each serves distinct roles in enhancing software reliability and security.

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  • Drop #648 (2025-05-02): Happy FridAI!

    Today’s Drop discusses the integration of MCP protocol with AI tools like llama3.2, oterm, Context7, and Zed AI to enhance coding assistance and information retrieval. It emphasizes MCP’s role in structured data interaction, Context7’s up-to-date documentation for better coding accuracy, and Zed AI’s robust features, highlighting the evolution and benefits of these technologies in AI-assisted…

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  • Drop #647 (2025-05-01): Toss-Up Thursday

    Today’s theme-less Drop covers two projects: Bluefish, a web diagramming framework emphasizing relations for flexible diagram creation, and Quartz, a static-site generator focused on Markdown support and speed. It discusses experiences with LLMs, warnings about misleading outputs, and mentions innovative protections against malicious bots using zip bombs.

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  • Drop #645 (2025-04-29): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s edition of the Drop explores typographic infrastructure, highlighting IKEA’s journey from traditional fonts to modern self-hosting solutions. It also presents FontDiffuser, a framework that enhances font generation through innovative diffusion techniques. The featured free font, Costaline, balances contemporary elegance with classic elements, offering diverse styles and multilingual support.

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