hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Bonus Drop #47 (2024-05-05): Publisher DoS Recovery Edition

    The Drop is off of hiaitus! Today, we cover Debian’s efforts to address the “2038 problem” by transitioning to a 64-bit time_t, the benefits of the REST Client extension for VS Codium, and the value of curated, opinionated lists of programming tools and libraries.

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  • Drop #459 (2024-04-26): It’s All Fun And Games

    Today’s game-centric Drop features Lantern, Hexcodle, and JS Challenger. Lantern uses JavaScript and D3 for a reimagined Zork I experience, Hexcodle tests RGB knowledge, and JS Challenger provides JavaScript coding tasks for skill improvement and practice.

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  • Drop #457 (2024-04-24): Wednesday Wanderings

    It’s been a minute since a proper Wednesday edition was out! Today we cover SkyBridge, a platform connecting Mastodon and Bluesky social media, Scroll as a new language and static site generator, and Pico, a service allowing content publishing without installations using SSH tools (and mroe). SkyBridge centralizes social media, while Scroll and Pico offer…

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  • Bonus Drop #44 (2024-04-07): Combined Make-Up Bonus + WPE Drop

    Today’s Bonus + WPE Drop is cull of ctags crunchy goodness. Universal ctags is a tool that generates an index file for programming languages to enable easy navigation within text editors. Geany, an IDE with extensive functionality, showcases the usage of ctags. Quickwit, an alternative tool, allows users to retrieve code-level information from projects using…

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  • Bonus Drop #36 (2023-12-16): Knowl-Edge Drop

    The content discusses setting up self-hosted “edge” functions using Deno and Supabase FOSS. It explains the concept of “Serverless Edge” and provides examples of creating random data and placeholder images as edge services. The goal is to inspire and simplify the process of setting up edge microservices.

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  • Drop #432 (2024-03-25): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    In today’s Daily Drop, we have the regular Monday grab bag of resources. We highlight Fedica, a platform for posting to Mastodon and Bluesky, the Navy’s Solar Eclipse Computer, and Vanilla Breeze, a tool for converting Tailwind-classed HTML tags to semantic CSS.

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  • Drop #431 (2024-03-22): hrbrtips & hrbrtricks

    Today’s Drop shows how to convert data from Postgres to Parquet safely & painlessly, shows how to hack x-callback-urls @ the CLI for inter-app communication on macOS, and enhancing Bash scripts with LLM/GPTs. It emphasizes technical details and tools for each topic, providing insights and tips for data professionals and developers.

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  • Bonus Drop #45 (2024-03-17): Command & Conquer: JavaScript Edition

    Today’s Drop discusses the use of Thorium and mprocs for efficient web development, as well as the VS Code remote debugging experience. It emphasizes the importance of using the right tools for productivity and enjoyment. It also provides examples of configurations for different types of projects in VS Code. These tools and practices aim to…

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  • Drop #427 (2024-03-15): Beware The IDEs Of March

    Today, we have a (somewhat) light and (hopefully) informative overview of modern and past integrated development environments (IDEs). It introduces Theia IDE, an open-source environment for building custom IDEs, and Replit Desktop, a standalone application offering a distraction-free coding environment. It also reflects on the evolution of IDEs over the past 30 years and the…

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  • Drop #424 (2024-03-11): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop features three resources: Reqable, a closed-source freemium app for API development; The Minimum Vi(m) You Need To Know, a guide for Vi(m) users; and Ahab’s Leg Dilemma, an intriguing exploration. Reqable acts as a GUI on top of MITMproxy, offering various features. The Minimum Vi(m) provides essential idioms and a helpful cheat sheet,…

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