hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #485 (2024-06-21): Potential Weekend Distractions

    Today’s Drop features 3 JS-adjacent resources. The es-toolkit is a JS utility library with performance + size advantages; intro.js is a lightweight library for creating product tours, & kuma is a self-hosted site monitoring tool with various features.

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  • Drop #484 (2024-06-20): Data All The Way Down

    Today’s Drop is all “data infrastructure”-focused and covers a new event streaming platform in Go, a high-performance query engine in Rust, and Haskell middleware for integrating websockets with PostgreSQL.

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  • Drop #482 (2024-06-17): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    The Drop is back from holiday and starting the week with a grab bag of resources, including a deep-dive into Apple’s new AI ecosystem, a *blazing* fast Rust HTML-to-Markdown converter, and something spiffyfor the cartographers out there to drool over.

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  • Drop #475 (2024-05-28): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Typography Tuesday Drop dives into technical aspects of fonts, highlighting Glyph-ByT5’s character-level text enhancement, opentype.js’s font manipulation capabilities, and Spotify’s new customizable font, Spotify Mix.

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  • Drop #474 (2024-05-23): Holiday D20 Edition

    A extra random Drop is out today featuring edge functions for AI bot blocking, “abort bars”, NextDNS in context, and updates to Zed & llamafile.

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  • Drop #473 (2024-05-23): What The Shell?!

    Today’s Drop discusses three tools for, er, “modernizing” shell scripting. Amber and Bish are languages that compile into Bash, offering modern features and a more intuitive syntax. Meanwhile, bash_tls is a pure Bash script that provides minimal TLS 1.2 client implementation. This is def a “use at your own peril” Drop.

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  • Bonus Drop #49 (2024-05-19): 🦙s All The Way Down

    The weekend Bonus Drop covers various AI-centric tools like llamafile, whisperfile, and Firecrawl. llamafile simplifies the deployment of LLM/GPT models for local use, while whisperfile focuses on converting audio files. Firecrawl is a tool for crawling web content and converting it into Markdown format, and is 100% usable in a non-AI context.

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  • Drop #468 (2024-05-17): The One Without A Clever Tagline

    Today’s Friday Drop introduces a tool to “ping” HTTP/3-enabled sites, showcases a partnership miracle between rival tech giants that should help us all be a bit safer in meatspace, and some Rust katas to help learn or reinforce your knowledge of that spiffy language.

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  • Drop #463 (2024-05-10): Everybody’s [Workin|Playin]’ For The Weekend

    Today’s Drop features a new markup language called MinTyML that has been introduced, aiming to simplify HTML coding by providing a more concise syntax and reducing redundancy. It further features Go Katas covering various programming idioms to improve proficiency in Go. And, multiplayer Zork allows playing the classic game with friends for an enhanced experience.

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  • Drop #461 (2024-05-07): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Typography Tuesday edition of the Drops has some font intrigue, improved ways to wield web fonts, and an update to a Drop fav typeface.

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