hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #640 (2025-04-17): Twisted Topics Thursday

    Today’s Drop discusses MotherDuck’s #DuckDB Model Context Protocol server with a walk through a look at my sensor network data. It further highlights the rise of automated bots, which now constitute 51% of web traffic, and, lastly, emphasizes the privacy concerns surrounding modern web browsers’ telemetry practices.

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  • Drop #638 (2025-04-14): You Call That A Theme?

    Today’s cobbled together themed Drop sports Browser MCP, a tool that integrates LLMs with web browsers for automation tasks; Arc Export which helps convert pinned tabs from the Arc browser to HTML bookmarks, and a D2 extension for Zed, w/a bonus link to Jumping River’s excellent low-down on R’s 4.5.0 release.

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  • Drop #636 (2025-04-10): Three Off The Top

    Today’s Drop sports “Bare”, a lightweight JavaScript runtime optimizing for modular app development; JAWSM, a project executing JavaScript directly in WebAssembly, enhancing performance and reducing file size; and Remind, a command-line calendar tool for managing complex schedules through text files, catering to users who prefer simplicity in scheduling.

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  • Drop #635 (2025-04-09): Happy WednesdAI!

    Today’s “AI”-centric edition of the Drop focuses on the “Model Context Protocol” (MCP). This new, standardized integration system for LLM/GPT-ops enhances data connectivity and addresses prior fragmentation. However, it significantly lacks security measures, making it vulnerable to command injection and tool poisoning. Practical examples, including a Star Wars API implementation, highlight MCP’s potential while also…

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  • Bonus Drop #81 (2025-04-06): Bonus²

    This weekend Bonus Drop discusses DuckDB’s integration with dbt for effective data transformation, enhancing workflows with features like spatial functions and reverse ETL. It also highlights shell command efficiency improvement tools and introduces Ollamacommit for generating Git commit messages locally, improving privacy and workflow for developers.

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  • Drop #633 (2025-04-04): Friday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s theme-less Drop showcases Hollama, a user-friendly web interface for LLMs; Tactile Vega-Lite, which enhances accessibility in data visualization for blind users; and Pussh, a parallel SSH tool for managing commands across multiple servers.

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  • Bonus Drop #80 (2025-03-30): Shameless

    The Weekend [Shameless] Bonus Drop showcases a spiffy accessible color palette generator, a project that will help turn the “news” into a research corpus, and some updates on various personal projects.

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  • Drop #630 (2025-03-28): Fool Around To Find Out Friday

    Today’s Drop discusses recent tools and experiments in document preparation and bookmarking. John Maxwell shares insights on Typst as a LaTeX alternative, highlighting its ease of use and integration with Pandoc. Additionally, Shaarli is introduced as a self-hosted bookmarking tool, while Shellfirm aids terminal command safety through verification prompts.

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  • Drop #628 (2025-03-26): Web-Slinging Wensday

    Today’s Drop discusses two new packages, hmmfetch and {headrs}, designed to generate realistic HTTP headers for #JavaScript and #RStats respectively, aiding developers in avoiding detection from automated traffic. Additionally, Anthony Fu promotes transitioning to ESM-only packages, highlighting the growth of ESM adoption and addressing challenges of dual CJS/ESM formats in JavaScript development.

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  • Drop #626 (2025-03-24): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop discusses Djot, a new markup language enhancing Markdown’s capabilities, and Bean CMS, a minimal content management system built on redbean. It also outlines a “Clean Slate Protocol” to remove ⭐️’d GH repos.

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