hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • 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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  • Drop #624 (2025-03-19): Into The [AT]proto-Verse

    Today’s Drop explores ATproto-verse & shows how to build custom records w/only Bash/curl. It highlights the atmo.lol URL shortener, & takes a first stab at analyzing the current extent of the tangled.sh universe.

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  • Drop #622 (2025-03-17): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop covers Plonk.li — a new gist service on the ATproto network, storing pastes in Personal Data Servers to enhance data portability; Nash — a portable web-based note-taking app without server dependencies, supporting various formatting options;; and highlights Arc Browser’s new integrated ad blocker.

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  • Bonus Drop #79 (2025-03-16): Weekend Hodge Podge

    The Weekend Bonus Drop covers Prettier, an opinionated code formatter ensuring consistent style across programming languages, and Krep, a fast C-based string search tool outperforming traditional utilities. It also includes updates to the {hrbrthemes} #RStats package.

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  • Drop #618 (2025-03-10): Nothin’ But Bluesky

    Today’s thematic Drop features “The Blue Report,” which analyzes trending links on Bluesky using a scoring formula. It also explores the AT Protocol’s applications, emphasizing practical development. And, it introduces a study by Quelle and Bovet examines Bluesky’s network, revealing a left-center political bias and similarities to traditional social media, despite its decentralized nature. It…

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  • Bonus Drop #78 (2025-03-09): Knot Your Parents’ Social-Enabled Git Collaboration Platform

    The Weekend Bonus Drop features Tangled, a new decentralized platform for Git-based collaboration, designed to enhance social coding while ensuring data ownership and ease of entry. Built on the AT Protocol, it allows developers to create “knots” for hosting repositories. The platform emphasizes community governance, security, and user-friendly interactions within a decentralized environment.

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  • Drop #615 (2025-03-03): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop includes a grab bag of tools and packages including MDB Tools for accessing Microsoft Access databases, unenv for ensuring JavaScript code runs consistently across environments, and uptasticsearch for simplifying data extraction from Elasticsearch into tabular formats.

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