hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #778 (2026-05-05): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s sleep-deprived-originated Typography Tuesday features Lilex, a ligature-enhanced font, and D.I.Y. ’75, a typewriter font derived from 1970s fanzine materials. It also highlights FontBob’s interactive game that teaches type design through hands-on practice, encouraging users to create and optically correct their own alphabets.

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  • Bonus Drop #115 (2026-05-03): Terminal Velocity

    The latest (and, hopefully final only- Bonus Drop) showcases a cadre of terminal emulators, highlighting their unique features and technologies. It covers OpenWarp, Macterm, rootshell, Rio, and Foot, each with distinct attributes related to performance, design, and underlying technology. The author discusses usability for different systems, emphasizing safety and configurations while noting trends toward AI…

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  • Bonus Drop #114 (2026-04-26): Let’s Get Visual

    Seeing is believing in the weekend Bonus Drop! Posit has launched an alpha version of ggsql, a SQL syntax extension for visualizations, allowing folks to create charts directly from SQL queries without additional programming languages. It utilizes database computation for efficiency and offers a clean interface for SQL practitioners. Additionally, chartli provides a CLI tool…

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  • Bonus Drop #113 (2026-04-19): A Safety Throughline

    Managed to crank out another Bonus Drop after a firehose of an onboarding week @ Censys. Today, we’ve got Kula, a Linux server monitoring tool that emphasizes security with deliberate mitigation measures. Also: SSH certificates improve key management, addressing the flaws of public key systems. Finally, an iTerm2 bug demonstrates vulnerabilities in terminal emulators, highlighting…

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  • Bonus Drop #112 (2026-04-12): The Drops Are (Mostly) Back!

    The first Bonus Drop in quite a while has some seekrit updates and a new method for setting up S3-object storage at home using Versity S3 Gateway and Tailscale, detailing installation steps and configurations for enhanced security and accessibility.

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  • Drop #777 (2026-02-27): It’s Always DNS

    It’s all about DNS in today’s Drop! Geoff Huston developed ipasn.net, a user-friendly DNS-based IP-to-ASN lookup service that avoids complex query formatting. Hickory DNS is a Rust-native implementation, addresses memory safety issues in traditional DNS stacks, with future production plans by Let’s Encrypt. And Miek Gieben’s revised Go DNS library boasts significant performance enhancements, optimizing…

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  • Drop #775 (2026-02-23): Another Regularly Expressive Drop

    Today’s Drop discusses portit, a Rust TUI for managing TCP ports; MinRX, a new regex engine in GNU gawk focusing on performance and POSIX compliance; and Regexle, a puzzle game that blends Wordle mechanics with regex challenges.

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  • Bonus Drop #111 (2026-02-22): Screech • Spruce Up • Sandbox

    The weekend Bonus Drop covers three key topics: an AWK script simulating a Bell 103 modem for data exfiltration, the revamped Go 1.26 ‘go fix’ tool enhancing code modernization, and Scraping Sandbox, an open-source web scraping platform offering a playground for developers to practice with synthetic e-commerce data in a “modern” site.

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  • Drop #774 (2026-02-20): Let’s Get Visual

    Today’s themed! Drop features 2 spiffy CSS resources and a rly cool tool. Modern CSS Code Snippets compares legacy and modern CSS patterns; ASCII Silhouettify converts images to ASCII art; and CSS Doodle is for creating generative art using CSS-like rules.

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  • Drop #774 (2026-02-19): Secured, Saved, Savvied, and Sublimed

    Today’s theme-less Drop discusses 4 topics: dotenvx, an enhanced .env management tool that improves security and multi-environment support; factbook.json, a project preserving the CIA World Factbook as structured JSON; and alpinestuff, a resource for learning Alpine.JS. Kanso Ink is also mentioned, offering terminal theme configurations.

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