hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #498 (2024-07-101): HTTP Toolbox Companions

    It’s a 🕸️🕷️-focused Drop, today, with two tools (well, one tool and one tool/library/ecosystem) for slurping content up (responsibly!), and one TUI for helping craft perfect APIs

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  • Bonus Drop #53 (2024-07-14): You’ve Been Frame[worked]!

    Today’s drop is all about Observable Framework version 1.9.0! This June update introduces new features, including support for React & JSX and improved inline javascript expressions. The Observable HQ team replaced tags marking inline code blocks with comments, allowing much easier and far more powerful dynamic content creation. Dive into a larger example to explore…

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  • Drop #499 (2024-07-12): Hulk BASH!

    Today’s Drop highlights some Bash tricks, including process substitution, indented heredocs, and the use of readarray and jq for efficient data operations. It emphasizes the benefits and usage of these methods (with examples), and encourages readers to explore Bash builtins and source code for deeper understanding.

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  • Drop #496 (2024-07-09): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop has a cryptically titled section “Inter Typus Enim GNOME Defectu” that you’ll have to read to find out more, plus a deep dive on a super cool font family that’s great for prose and coding/terminals, and also introduces the world’s smallest, readable font.

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  • Bonus Drop #52 (2024-07-07): Knowledge Drop

    Today’s Knowledge Drop is a first attempt at helping me avoid doomscrolling by using AI to summarize missed socmed content. Perplexity successfully generates accurate summaries; and local LLM/GPT Gemma v2 27b also provides fast summarization (on Apple Silion, anyway). There’s even a bit of #RStats code that works with Mastodon feed output and POSTing to…

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  • Drop #493 (2024-07-05): Fresh Friday

    Today’s Drop takes a quick look at the recent POSIX.1-2024 Standard, showcases the new digs for Mozilla’s HTTP Observatory, and covers Portier — a self-hostable, password-less login service that intermediates between websites and authentication providers.

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  • Drop #490 (2024-07-01): X-CMD

    Today’s Drop features X-CMD: a versatile POSIX script framework for CLI enhancement, supporting over 500 open-source tools, language runtimes, and AI/LLM services. It offers themes, navigation, shell completion, and interactive CLI tools. It integrates with AI/LLM services like GPT models, Gemini, and Ollama, and provides access to information sources. X-CMD also offers enhanced shell commands…

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  • Drop #489 (2024-06-28): Format Friday

    Code formatting is essential in software development to maintain consistency and readability across projects. Today’s Drop explores single- and multi-purpose formatters like jqfmt for jq programs, Unibeautify for over 20 languages, and dprint for multiple language support using Rust-based WASM modules. These tools offer granular control and automation for consistent code styling.

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  • Drop #486 (2024-06-24): Monday Afternoon Grab Bag

    New tools included in today’s grab bag Drop are: qq, a CLI transcoder, and Gotenberg, a document format converter. Additionally, “Anonymous Letters” offers a service for your more criminal endeavours.

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  • Bonus Drop #50 (2024-06-23): Something For Everyone

    The weekend Bonus Drop offers something for everyone, including Reasonable Colors for accessible, high-contrast color combinations, RoosterJS for rich text editing, and insight into extreme UV index conditions. Learn about the UV Index’s origins and global standardization, and the availability of mobile apps to track UV radiation levels for public health safety.

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