hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #502 (2024-07-19): Fun? Friday

    Today’s (late) Drop includes discussions on terminal colors, Google’s URL shortener discontinuation, authenticity in AI-driven content, and a new heat stress measurement called ‘stickiness’.

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  • Bonus Drop #52 (2024-07-07): Knowledge Drop

    Today’s Knowledge Drop is a first attempt at helping me avoid doomscrolling by using AI to summarize missed socmed content. Perplexity successfully generates accurate summaries; and local LLM/GPT Gemma v2 27b also provides fast summarization (on Apple Silion, anyway). There’s even a bit of #RStats code that works with Mastodon feed output and POSTing to…

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  • Drop #490 (2024-07-01): X-CMD

    Today’s Drop features X-CMD: a versatile POSIX script framework for CLI enhancement, supporting over 500 open-source tools, language runtimes, and AI/LLM services. It offers themes, navigation, shell completion, and interactive CLI tools. It integrates with AI/LLM services like GPT models, Gemini, and Ollama, and provides access to information sources. X-CMD also offers enhanced shell commands…

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  • Drop #488 (2024-06-27): “No, Thanks. I’m Just Browsing.”

    Today’s Drop covers a variety of browser-related topics. It discusses alternatives to console.log, the impact of AI on browsers, and [re-]introduces Ladybird, a new HTML/CSS/JS-rendering engine.

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  • Drop #487 (2024-06-25): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of “The Drop” features a full inference engine in a font, some longform blathering on fonts and road signs, and a featured set of fun pixel fonts.

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  • Drop #486 (2024-06-24): Monday Afternoon Grab Bag

    New tools included in today’s grab bag Drop are: qq, a CLI transcoder, and Gotenberg, a document format converter. Additionally, “Anonymous Letters” offers a service for your more criminal endeavours.

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  • Drop #482 (2024-06-17): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    The Drop is back from holiday and starting the week with a grab bag of resources, including a deep-dive into Apple’s new AI ecosystem, a *blazing* fast Rust HTML-to-Markdown converter, and something spiffyfor the cartographers out there to drool over.

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  • Drop #480 (2024-06-06): Happy ThursdAI

    Today’s AI-centric edition of the Drop covers ChatDB, a browser-based tool for text-to-SQL ops; DataTrove, a platform-agnostic framework designed to simplify data processing tasks for AI pipelines; and, Google (et al.’s) attempt to use AI to envirowash AI.

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  • Drop #476 (2024-05-30): Happy ThursdAI!

    Another AI edition of the Drop! Today’s focus is on “research”. Perplexity introduces “Pages”, a feature for creating visually appealing deep content. HyperMink develops “HyperMink Desktop” to locally run large language models for privacy. And, the AI paper mills’ proliferation poses a threat to scientific integrity.

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  • Drop #475 (2024-05-28): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Typography Tuesday Drop dives into technical aspects of fonts, highlighting Glyph-ByT5’s character-level text enhancement, opentype.js’s font manipulation capabilities, and Spotify’s new customizable font, Spotify Mix.

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