hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • 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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  • Drop #510 (2024-08-02): SQLite Vector Search

    Today’s Drop covers the introduction of two SQLite extensions, sqlite-vec and sqlite-rembed, designed to facilitate vector search operations. These extensions provide fast and efficient vector search functionality, sponsored by the Mozilla Builders project, and enable easy integration of text embeddings from “remote” APIs (which included ollama/llamafile). With further development potential, these extensions aim to democratize…

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  • Drop #508 (2024-07-31): Wild, Wild, Wednesday

    The Drop is caught up to Wed! Trail of Bits conducted a security audit of Homebrew, uncovering some concerns including executable code vulnerabilities and CI/CD issues. We look at the highlights in the Drop and shunt readers to the completel report for more details. I expanded my Mastodon-thread of the initial features of Apple Intelligence…

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