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  • Bonus Drop #41 (2024-02-18): Singularly Super Simple Tools

    “Glow” is a lightweight syntax highlighter that works independently and uses minimal CSS variables. “Color” introduces Adobe Color’s theme and gradient extractor tools for creating harmonized palettes from images. “List.js” adds search, sort, and filter functionalities to HTML elements without heavy dependencies, demonstrated in a vanilla JS example.

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  • Drop #422 (2024-02-14): Weekend Project Edition

    The Daily Drop was delayed due to long COVID exhaustion but the distraction led to the discovery of Observable Framework. This open-source system allows for creating data apps, dashboards, and reports using JavaScript and any backend language. The Framework supports continuous deployment on GitHub and provides features like live preview and automatic data loading for…

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  • Drop #419 (2024-02-12): Runnin’ down the Avenue

    Bluesky, an exclusive social platform, lifted its invite barrier, resulting in a surge of 856,000 new users in one day, bringing the total to 4 million in three months. The platform has made efforts to support actual federation and foster a community feel. Additionally, it offers revamped documentation and tools for interaction. Feed management options…

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  • Drop #418 (2024-02-09): Weekend Project Edition

    Your Own Private Ephemeris CLI We spent some time talking about, well, time, this week; specifically, times of various ephemeris. While each of the sections in Drop #416 had a CLI component, we don’t need to settle for someone else’s vision of how things should work! So, today, we’ll use a starter Golang project to…

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  • Drop #416 (2024-02-08): When The 🌕 Hits Your Eye In A Cool CLI

    astral; geodate; sun Ephemerides, at their core, are astronomical almanacs that detail the positions of celestial bodies — such as planets, moons, and stars — in the sky at given times. These positions are typically presented in tabular form, making them invaluable tools for astronomers, navigators, and even astrologers. The term itself originates from Greek…

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  • Drop #413 (2024-02-01): Happy ThursdAI

    The post discusses the AI Content Declaration by Declare-ai.org, bringing transparency to generative AI in content creation. It introduces AIfont and AImoji, AI-driven typefaces, and Galah, a web honeypot powered by OpenAI, keeping attackers occupied longer. Potential downsides to the declaration are also outlined. The summary aims to foster trust and understanding in AI content…

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  • Drop #410 (2024-01-29): Your Real-time App Stack

    Fir; Alpine.js; Gofir Along with making some special dinners and desserts for $SPOUSE this weekend, I finally managed to hack on a project that’s been on the TODO for quite some time. Today’s Drop covers that, but it first introduces the components it was built with. No “TL;DR” as it doesn’t really make sense for…

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  • Drop #408 (2024-01-25): So Much For The “Daily Drivers”

    Initial Thoughts On ‘Fleet’; Peek (macOS/$); Checking In On D2 Apologies for the tardiness of today’s Drop. A bunch of U.S. states seceding from the Union distracted me for a bit this morning. TL;DR This is an AI-generated summary of today’s content. Initial Thoughts On ‘Fleet’ Well, my “daily drivers” are all up-ended thanks to some aforeblogged cool Rust projects and my abject disdain…

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  • Drop #404 (2024-01-12): Weekend Project Edition

    Topiary is a Rust-based universal source formatter part of the Tree-sitter ecosystem. It leverages syntax tree understanding to reshape code for readability. Tweag revamped its CLI, addressing simplicity, memorability, discoverability, familiarity, and clarity. Following their principles, you can level up your own CLI tool. Check out the article for detailed insights.

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  • Drop #403 (2024-01-11): Join The Cheat [Sheet] Commandos

    The post reflects on adapting to new normals, encouraging positive framing of situations, and the use of cheat sheets to manage tech tasks. It provides links to interactive cheat sheets for HTML/CSS/JS and promotes SheCodes’ free coding resources. It also suggests a Go cheat sheet for those new to Golang.

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