hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • 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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  • Drop #554 (2024-11-14): What The Shell?

    Today’s Drop discusses 3 shell-related resources: ‘up,’ a utility for efficient directory navigation in Bash/Zsh; ‘BATS,’ a Bash testing framework that isolates test execution; and ‘cmdx,’ a Golang module for streamlined command-line operations with error handling.

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  • Drop #553 (2024-11-11): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s diverse Drop covers a tiny JavaScript library for webpage minimaps, Adobe’s Spectrum design system for accessible data visualizations, and “The Copilot Pause,” which addresses cognitive effects when AI code completion tools are disabled. The latter highlights concerns about skill erosion and emphasizes the importance of maintaining programming proficiency.

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  • Bonus Drop #67 (2024-11-09): If It 🚁 Like A 🦆

    Today’s Bonus Drop covers 3 #DuckDB extensions.GSheets allows seamless data interaction with Google Sheets via SQL. MyDuck Server bridges MySQL and DuckDB for improved analytics. And,, the DuckDB HTTP Client extension facilitates direct HTTP requests in queries, enhancing data processing capabilities through API integration. (I’ve got an NVD CVE API example for the last one).

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  • Drop #551 (2024-11-06): Web Slinging Wednesday

    Today’s Drop discusses three main topics: Cash, a lightweight JavaScript library for DOM manipulation similar to jQuery; the CSS :has() selector, which enables quantity queries for adaptive layouts; and custom CSS cursors that display favicons on external links but present usability and security challenges. The author announces potential interruptions due to personal circumstances.

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  • Drop #550 (2024-11-05): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses Google’s initiatives to enhance typography through projects like Oxidize and Fontations, focusing on migrating font manipulation to Rust for better performance and memory safety. It also covers type revival for film and TV, emphasizing the importance of recreating vintage typefaces to achieve historical accuracy while accommodating modern production…

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  • Bonus Drop #66 (2024-11-03): Eye Sea Ewe

    Today’s Drop talks about ICU (International Components for Unicode), whic is essential for Unicode support in software. The recent ICU 76 release improves character handling and formatting capabilities. Tools like opstr and go-icu-regex enhance string operations and regex handling, while Intl.NumberFormat in JavaScript simplifies numeric formatting across various styles and currencies, ensuring robust functionality.

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