hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • 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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  • Bonus Drop #44 (2024-03-09): WebR + Observable Framework

    The post highlights Framework’s new features like raw SQL cell support, Node.js v18.x compatibility, and Apache ECharts integration. It also introduces modern WebR integration for enhanced plotting and data manipulation. For detailed examples and source code, visit https://hrbrmstr.app/webr-framework/. Follow @dailydrop.hrbrmstr.dev on Mastodon for more content.

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  • Bonus Drop #43 (2024-03-05): Adding A Bit More Structure To [Self-Hosted] Framework

    The weekend’s Bonus Drop was delayed due to unforeseen circumstances, and plans to move paid subscriptions to WordPress were disrupted by WordPress turning AI-evil. The post also discusses a new project example involving the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog and the use of components, data loaders, and Markdown pages to structure the project. The…

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  • Drop #429 (2024-02-29): Multi-Threaded Edition v2024.02

    The Missing Semester of Your CS Education by MIT offers practical coursework covering essential tools for computer science students and professionals. Positive feedback highlights immediate applicability in internships and jobs. WARC-GPT is an AI tool for exploring web archives, enabling accurate and contextually relevant responses. Web-Check analyzes and secures websites, providing valuable on-demand intelligence.

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  • Drop #426 (2024-02-23): Weekend Project Edition

    Give Pixi A Chance (Apologies for no Thursday Drop, again. I got stuck in Kubernetes limbo, which — oddly enough — is a redundant term.) Ev’rybody’s talking about uv, venv, poetry, and renv. Nixs and condas, and Cargos, and spacks. And, aye yai yai (with apologies to Mr. Lennon, RIP). These days, things move way too fast, and that pace of change is a huge…

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  • Drop #423 (2024-02-19): If It Walks Like A…

    In this content, the author discusses three main topics: SQL Workbench with DuckDB-WASM, the Tabulator JavaScript library, and DuckDB Remote Parquet. The SQL Workbench section focuses on building a SQL workbench with DuckDB-WASM, while the Tabulator section introduces the features and versatility of the Tabulator library. The content ends with a link to explore further…

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