hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • 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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  • Drop #571 (2024-12-13): Frantic Friday

    Today’s Drop discusses the BlogFlock platform, which enhances RSS feeds through communal curation; the impact of generative AI on hiring practices, making resumes less reliable; and Matt Might’s shell scripts that improve clarity in writing by detecting passive voice and weasel words.

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  • Drop #566 (2024-12-05): Prompts, Two Ways

    Today’s Drop discusses three tools: Plop, Lit Starter Kit, and Elia. Plop is a micro-generator framework for creating boilerplate code efficiently. The Lit Starter Kit simplifies web component development with the Lit framework, while Elia is a terminal app for interacting with large language models, ensuring a user-friendly experience.

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  • Drop #563 (2024-12-02): Awash In Advents

    December features various “technical” advent calendars, such as Advent of Code and Advent of Rust, offering daily programming challenges to enhance skills. Today’s Drop showcases a bonkers number of code, “no-code”, and absolutely no-code challenges to keep you occupied throughout December.

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  • Drop #540 (2024-10-04): Friday Fun!

    Today’s Drop features three text- or terminal-based games: CortexForge, a challenging puzzle game; AI Dungeon 2, an AI-driven text adventure offering interactive storytelling; and Ninvaders, a command-line version of Space Invaders.

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  • Drop #539 (2024-10-03): Toss-Up Thursday

    Today’s Drop highlights three main topics: Pipet, a Golang tool for web scraping; “Need For Speed”, featuring resources like speedtest-rs and LibreSpeed for measuring internet speed; and techniques for poisoning AI scrapers to protect content.

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  • Bonus Drop #64 (2024-09-22): Extensionating Circumstances

    In today’s Bonus Drop we build a very basic, local-first VS Codium (also works in VS Code) extension for generating TL;DR summaries from a local Ollama prompt. Should be super straightforward to modify for other generation needs in VS Codium.

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  • Drop #531 (2024-09-17): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop takes another peek into the world of font creation, explores the historical intersection of typography and automation, and showcases a unique (free) display font that challenges our visual perception.

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  • Drop #528 (2024-09-12): Happy ThursdAI

    Another ThursdAI Drop is upon us! In it, we cover Reader-LM, a small language model by Jina AI, for HTML-to-Markdown conversion; Janelle Shane’s exploration of AI-generated paint colors; Jon Evans’ frustrations with large language models (LLMs); and Space-Man, a showcase game using OpenAI’s new technologies.

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