hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #506 (2024-07-29): Content-Type: text/html/markdown

    The super-tardy Monday Drop introduces the “url-knife” JavaScript library for manipulating plaintext and XML/HTML contents, as well as a “Gather CLI” tool for converting web URLs to Markdown documents, particularly useful for note-taking and RAG

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  • Bonus Drop #55 (2024-07-07): Untangling The Web 🕸️

    The weekend Bonus Drop features SigmaOS, an alternative browser with similar goals Arc has, but using WebKit. Additionally, a new query language “get” for web data extraction is introduced, and a CORS proxy “corsproxy.io” is mentioned, with some example usage.

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  • Drop #505 (2024-07-25): Toss Up Thursday

    Today’s Drop discusses Zed remote development/editing, now available for all users, a Go module and CLI tool for Open Graph tags, and Itsy Gitsy, a Rust-tool that generates static websites from Git repositories with customizable templates for various output formats.

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  • Drop #504 (2024-07-24): Sometimes You Feel Like A 🥜

    There was not going to be a Drop today, but something I found was just too bonkers cool to not talk about today.

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  • Drop #434 (2024-03-28): The One With The JavaScript Resources

    WinterJS is a new serverside Javascript option developed by Winter Community Group (WinterCG). It’s written in Rust, uses Mozilla’s SpiderMonkey engine, and can handle over 150,000 requests-per-second. It supports various JavaScript runtimes and can be compiled down to WebAssembly. Echochamber.js is a script for creating a comment form that saves comments to users’ LocalStorage. Codeacademy…

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  • 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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