hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Bonus Drop #68 (2024-12-08): All Strings ATTACHed (CLI Version)

    Today’s Bonus Drop discusses GoReleaser, an open-source tool designed to simplify cross-platform releases of Go projects, supporting various formats and integrations. It also introduces a project for a CLI version of the DuckDB Drop viewer.

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  • Drop #567 (2024-12-06): In Defense Of…

    Today’s Drop explores three distinct topics centered around safety. We take a deep look into DuckDB’s sophisticated query optimization capabilities, examine a new security tool for GitHub Actions workflows, and review the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s comprehensive guide to surveillance self-defense. Each section provides practical insights and actionable guidance for their respective domains.

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  • Drop #566 (2024-12-05): Prompts, Two Ways

    Today’s Drop discusses three tools: Plop, Lit Starter Kit, and Elia. Plop is a micro-generator framework for creating boilerplate code efficiently. The Lit Starter Kit simplifies web component development with the Lit framework, while Elia is a terminal app for interacting with large language models, ensuring a user-friendly experience.

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  • Drop #563 (2024-12-02): Awash In Advents

    December features various “technical” advent calendars, such as Advent of Code and Advent of Rust, offering daily programming challenges to enhance skills. Today’s Drop showcases a bonkers number of code, “no-code”, and absolutely no-code challenges to keep you occupied throughout December.

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  • Bonus Drop #67 (2024-12-01): How Is It December Already?

    Today’s Drop presents three useful tools: Qlty, a Rust-based multi-language code quality tool that simplifies static analysis and formatting; untls, a Golang CLI tool enabling seamless TCP and TLS connections; and Censeye, developed by Censys Research to help identify and analyze hosts with similar characteristics to specified targets.

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  • Drop #561 (2024-11-25): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop sports a Bluesky follower export tool for CSV files, the Shebanger CLI tool that reconfigures shell scripts into multiple shebang files, and Onefetch, a Rust-based CLI for offline Git analytics.

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  • Bonus Drop #69 (2024-11-24): Blue Skies, Four Squares, And Federated Blogs

    Today’s Bonus Drop covers spatial data visualization using Foursquare’s open-source POI dataset and decentralized blogging via WhiteWind’s platform built on AT Protocol. It also covers setting up an ATproto Personal Data Server (PDS).

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  • Drop #560 (2024-11-22): Quack • Post • Code

    Today’s Drop features DuckDB’s API integration with Hono.js for SQL queries, turning RSS feeds into automated Bluesky posts, and resources for learning Deno 2.x.

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  • Bonus Drop #68 (2024-11-17): Drinking From A More Civilized Firehose

    Bluesky introduced “Starter Packs” to help users build their feeds, accumulating nearly 30,000 packs. The Jetstream service, replacing the more complex firehose, simplifies data streaming, using JSON for easier access. Today’s Bonus Drop discusses leveraging Deno, Red Panda, and DuckDB for effectively managing and processing Starter Pack events via the Jetstream.

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  • Drop #555 (2024-11-15): Finally Friday

    Today’s Drop covers a CLI tool to work with Bluesky Starter Packs to enhance user onboarding by personalizing curated account lists; Libravatar, a federated alternative to Gravatar, which ensures consistent avatars across platforms; and shpool which offers lightweight shell session maintenance, persisting connections even when SSH drops.

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