hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • 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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  • Drop #583 (2025-01-01): Wrapping Day

    The inaugural Drop of 2025 takes a look back at the Drops of 2024, my 2025+ daily drivers, and covers a new-to-me tool: Mise.

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  • Drop #572 (2024-12-16): Mixed-up Monday

    Today’s Drop introduces three distinct resources: MarkItDown, a Markdown conversion tool by (ugh) Microsoft; the “4 Colors Formula” for effective design using four color roles; and Hyperfine, a Rust-based benchmarking tool for performance measurement.

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