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  • Drop #524 (2024-09-02): clang-format Two Ways

    Today’s holiday Drop is — as promised — all about clang-foramt. This is a pretty powerful tool for automatic code formatting in C, C++, and Objective-C (and more). It ensures consistent style, saves time, and reduces conflicts. With customizable options and integrations, it supports various languages and IDEs. A WebAssembly version allows running it in…

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  • Bonus Drop #60 (2024-09-01): A Flare For Change: Part Deux

    Today’s Bonus-Bonus Drop expands on the theme of the previous Drop, and turns the somewhat static version into an interactive one where you can select which tagged DuckDB version to compare with ‘main’ when it comes to included core extension functions. Includes links to an Observable notebook and Observable Framework version as well.

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  • Bonus Drop #59 (2024-08-31): A Flare For Change

    The weekend Bonus Drop covers the exploration of DuckDB’s core extension functions and creating a visualization tool for tracking changes between the published release, and in-dev new functions We use GitHub’s API in the browser to extract and format extension function data for visualization in Observable Plot.

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  • Drop #522 (2024-08-28): Wacky Wednesday

    Wednesday’s Drop had three diverse resources folks can explore. ES2024 introduces new JavaScript features. EditorConfig maintains consistent coding styles across different editors using a simple .editorconfig file. And, see which classic Linux command-line tools are now considered obsolete.

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  • Drop #519 (2024-08-22): Cache Me If You Can

    Today’s Drop discusses creating a lightweight internet research setup by integrating SearXNG, Jina, and a small Go program to provide a caching layer for search results. SearXNG is a self-hostable metasearch engine, while Jina’s Reader endpoint converts URLs to Markdown. Through a combined CLI, we can preview search results in the terminal and access cached…

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  • Bonus Drop #58 (2024-08-18): One-Thing Well

    The weekend Bonus Drop features 3 projects, sfeed, gen-license, and gitnx. Each excel at specific functions. sfeed offers command-line tools for processing RSS and Atom feeds, gen-license generates software licenses through a simple command, and gitnr creates .gitignore files using templates from various sources.

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  • Drop #518 (2024-08-16): Clean As A Whistle

    The demand for SSDs is spiking due to AI infrastructure needs. To avoid the price hike, try cleaning up your existing storage! Today’ Drop explores tools like kondo for automatic artifact removal, sn for faster directory processing, and dust for a visual representation of disk usage. These tools can free up significant space in various…

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  • Drop #515 (2024-08-12): Starting The Week In Style[s]

    Today’s Drop gets back to basics and introduces 3 CSS resources: new.css, Almond.CSS, and Effective CSS One-Liners. Each is great for simple and efficient HTML styling.

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  • Bonus Drop #57 (2024-08-03): Vector Similarly Search And RAG-Lite

    The weekend Bonus Drop concludes a miniseries on vector search operations with VSS in R. But wait! There’s more! We also work with Ollama and three models to build a “lite” retrieval augmented generation application over the CISA KEV corpus. #RStats

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  • Bonus Drop #56 (2024-08-03): Knowledge Drop

    In today’s Knowledge Drop, we take a look at Vitale: a new TypeScript/JavaScript notebook system focusing on moldable development, enabling rapid feedback and supporting interactive React component development, data wrangling, and more.

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