hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #742 (2025-12-17): The Rumors Of The Drop’s DemAIse Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

    Today un-hiatus’d Drop discusses a proposed AI URI scheme governed by the fictitious Artificial Intelligence Internet Foundation, raising concerns about its legitimacy and origins. It also outlines the features of Deno 2.6, including improved type-checking, new utilities, and enhanced security tools.

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  • Drop #739 (2025-12-01): Web-Slinging Monday

    Today’s Drop discusses the growing problem of excessive web page weight, highlighting a median size of 2.6 MB that impacts load times and accessibility. It features two lightweight web development resources: Pure Web Bottom Sheet for building efficient UI components and PicoStitch’s method for creating responsive bar charts using minimal CSS.

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  • Drop #738 (2025-11-28): PCAPs Or It Didn’t Happen

    Today’s Drop discusses the integration of Wireshark’s capabilities into web environments through Wiregasm, a WebAssembly version enabling packet analysis directly in browsers. It introduces tools like Wireview, WebShark, and Packet Dissector leveraging Wiregasm, and highlights WireMCP for real-time traffic analysis, enhancing network inspection accessibility across various platforms.

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  • Drop #735 (2025-11-21): Retro Edition

    The Friday Drop highlights three retro resources: Microsoft’s open-sourcing of Zork I-III for interactive fiction preservation, DOCTYPE magazine which revives hands-on web coding, and Retro Game Coders offering tutorials for 8-bit game creation. Each resource emphasizes education through tactile engagement with technology, preserving historical programming techniques.

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  • Drop #732 (2025-11-17): Reliable Sources

    Today’s Drop explores the evolving landscape of coding tools and resources, particularly emphasizing AI’s impact on the decline of small npm packages like blob-util. It introduces Brimstone, a Rust-based JavaScript engine aiming for high ECMAScript compliance, and discusses optimizing DNS lookups to enhance website performance, recommending strategies like dns-prefetch and preconnect.

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  • Drop #731 (2025-11-13): That’s So Random

    Today’s Drop digs into Homebrew’s big 5.0 release, Chaser System’s research into just what these coding agents do on/from your system, and ends with a way to get rid of some “AI” frustration.

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  • Drop #730 (2025-11-11): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop introduces three unique typefaces: Myrna, which enhances code readability by equalizing symbols and letters; Tongari Display, inspired by Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai; and Avería, generated by averaging various fonts on the creator’s computer. Each font showcases innovative design principles.

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  • Drop #727 (2025-11-06): Forgotten But Not Gone

    Today’s Drop brings some items from simpler times back into active memory: the HTMLTableElement API for creating data tables without libraries, the ‘leave’ terminal command for GTHeckO reminders, and an effective modern use for the HTML element.

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  • Drop #725 (2025-11-03): Monday Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop pits terminal emulators against each other (and the results are sad + surprising). It also showcases a11y.css, a lightweight tool for instant accessibility checks on webpages, and Ben Joffe’s fast-date algorithm, which improves date conversion speeds by 2-10% through a simplified approach.

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  • Drop #724 (2025-10-31): If It Walks Like A Duck

    The Friday Drop is just super ducky! It highlights the integration of mlpack as a DuckDB extension, enabling machine learning models like AdaBoost directly within SQL queries. Additionally, the Dash extension provides a user-friendly data exploration and dashboard tool, while the experimental magic extension offers file classification capabilities.

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