hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • 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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  • Bonus Drop #76 (2025-02-16): I’m Sensing A Theme

    The weekend Bonus Drop has a concise overview of the Rosé Pine and Catppuccin theme suites, and introduces a tutorial on creating JavaScript-free scroll progress indicators using modern CSS techniques.

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  • Drop #604 (2025-02-13): Toss-Up Thursday

    Today’s Drop features treefmt (a multi-language source formatter orchestrator; a framework for evaluating technological progress (w/emphasis on AI); and, introducesCLI tool for selectively downloading GitHub repository content.

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  • Drop #603 (2025-02-12): Suggest • Static • Search

    The Drop has returned after a hiatus, and we focus, today, on some tech that was partly responsible for said hiatus. Zed’s new beta Edit Predictions kicks coding efficiency up a few notches; Eleventy (11ty) facilitates data-driven site generation, and Pagefind offers robust static site search capabilities.

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  • Drop #602 (2025-02-03): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s missed flight-enabled Drop talks Kata Containers, a secure container runtime using lightweight VMs for enhanced workload isolation; LosslessCut, a cross-platform, FFmpeg-based video editing tool that allows lossless trimming and manipulation of media files; and a CMU seminar series addressing SQL optimization and potential alternatives.

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  • Drop #599 (2025-01-27): Contain Your Enthusiasm

    Today’s Drop starts a theme for the week — containers — starting with Linux namespaces. We break things up with a look at Apple’s design philosophy for rounded corners, and upcoming improvements in the Go programming language.

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  • Bonus Drop #73 (2025-01-25): Crawl • Slice • Learn

    The Weekend Bonus Drop introduces three innovative resources: Lightpanda, a fast, efficient browser automation tool; Yek, a Rust-based solution for processing codebases for LLMs; and ManKier, which transforms Unix man pages into interactive HTML5 documentation. Each tool enhances efficiency and accessibility in their respective domains.

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