hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Bonus Drop #81 (2025-04-06): Bonus²

    This weekend Bonus Drop discusses DuckDB’s integration with dbt for effective data transformation, enhancing workflows with features like spatial functions and reverse ETL. It also highlights shell command efficiency improvement tools and introduces Ollamacommit for generating Git commit messages locally, improving privacy and workflow for developers.

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  • Drop #633 (2025-04-04): Friday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s theme-less Drop showcases Hollama, a user-friendly web interface for LLMs; Tactile Vega-Lite, which enhances accessibility in data visualization for blind users; and Pussh, a parallel SSH tool for managing commands across multiple servers.

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  • Bonus Drop #77 (2025-02-23): Hidden Agendas

    The weekend Bonus Drop showcases how to encode hidden data within Unicode characters, the Atlas of Surveillance which documents law enforcement technologies, and a crowdsourced Project 2025 “progress” tracker.

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  • Drop #604 (2025-02-13): Toss-Up Thursday

    Today’s Drop features treefmt (a multi-language source formatter orchestrator; a framework for evaluating technological progress (w/emphasis on AI); and, introducesCLI tool for selectively downloading GitHub repository content.

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  • Drop #603 (2025-02-12): Suggest • Static • Search

    The Drop has returned after a hiatus, and we focus, today, on some tech that was partly responsible for said hiatus. Zed’s new beta Edit Predictions kicks coding efficiency up a few notches; Eleventy (11ty) facilitates data-driven site generation, and Pagefind offers robust static site search capabilities.

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  • Bonus Drop #74 (2025-02-02): It’s Been A Long Week

    Today’s pseudo-Bonus Drop slings your way systemd-nspawn, a lightweight containerization tool integrated with systemd, linuxpdf/doompdf; and 5 Calls, an advocacy app enabling folks to easily contact representatives for civic engagement.

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  • Drop #587 (2025-01-07): (Tardy) Typography Tuesday

    Today’s (tardy) typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses kinetic typography, a technique that animates text to express ideas through motion, and the Fast Font typeface, which enhances reading speed by bolding word beginnings. It also introduces CSS’s text-wrap: balance property, improving visual text layouts by evenly distributing text across lines for better readability.

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  • Drop #586 (2025-01-06): Scroll Out The Barrel

    Today’s Drop is all about “scrolling”, just in very different contexts. Blogscroll is a curated directory of personal websites, the seekrit middle section is all about accessibility; and Scrollama is a JavaScript library for implementing scrollytelling features efficiently.

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  • Bonus Drop #71 (2025-01-05): A ‘Flare’ For The Dramatic

    The 2025 inaugural Bonus Drop discusses Cap’n Proto—a high-performance data interchange format—and Cloudflare’s workerd, which enables running serverless functions using Cap’n Proto files. It also gives the lo-down on Cloudflare Workers AI, which offers free access to AI models via REST APIs, providing a foundation for deploying AI-powered applications easily.

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  • Drop #585 (2025-01-03): Cruftless

    Today’s crufty/cruftless Drop: shows how to simplify recipes from blogs/videos and access to daily top news items; and also offers a detailed analysis of the state of USB-C[ruft].

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