hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • 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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  • Drop #614 (2025-02-28): Friday Morning Grab Bag

    The Friday Drop discusses enhancing productivity through macOS tips, the introduction of SmallJS as a modern web development tool inspired by Smalltalk, and emphasizes the significance of digital preservation tools

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  • Drop #613 (2025-02-27): Let’s Get Visual

    Today’s Drop sports a timeline visualizing the evolution of Unix shells, the rDNS Map project mapping the IPv4 space using ClickHouse, and a digital recreation of Moses Harris’ 1766 color theory work.

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  • Bonus Drop #77 (2025-02-23): Hidden Agendas

    The weekend Bonus Drop showcases how to encode hidden data within Unicode characters, the Atlas of Surveillance which documents law enforcement technologies, and a crowdsourced Project 2025 “progress” tracker.

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  • Drop #609 (2025-02-20): The “Not Everything Is Horrible In 2025” Drop

    Today’s un-horrible Drop covers a cool Typst package to use Markdown for content and introduces Typst’s new preliminary support for HTML output. It closes with some Datawrapper and #RStats crunchy goodness.

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