hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Bonus Drop #99 (2025-09-20): Train Of Thought

    The Bonus Drop has an ASAM update; presents Sniffly, an open-source dashboard by Chip Huyen for analyzing Claude Code usage (with some code & SQL to get similar data from Zed AI); and links to PostHog’s redesigned website resembling a desktop OS for better interaction and usability.

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  • Drop #713 (2025-09-19): AVAST ME HEARTIES!

    Today’s Drop discusses accessing and utilizing U.S. maritime safety data, focusing on Anti-Shipping Activity Messages, while highlighting challenges faced due to changes in data accessibility. It describes a method to retrieve piracy-related datasets using R and DuckDB, emphasizing the need for continual data scraping to maintain a comprehensive dataset.

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  • Drop #712 (2025-09-18): Toss-Up Thursday

    Today’s Drop discusses diverse topics including readability tools to enhance writing clarity, the challenges of obtaining structured JSON from LLMs, and Apple’s introduction of a private CSS property for Liquid Glass effects.

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  • Drop #711 (2025-09-16): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop explores the significance of typography in video games, illustrating its evolution from functional necessity to a vital artistic element. It highlights how different games utilize fonts to enhance player immersion and identity, facing unique technical challenges and licensing issues. Meanwhile, the Go programming language has its own clear and…

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  • Drop #710 (2025-09-15): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop discusses FFmpeg, Linkhut, and Peekaping. FFmpeg offers a detailed guide on media processing. Linkhut is a flexible social bookmarking platform, and Peekaping serves as a self-hosted uptime monitoring solution.

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  • Bonus Drop #98 (2025-09-14): Observable Notebooks Data Loaders Example

    This week, the Bonus Drop features a practical example of using Python data loaders in Observable Notebooks 2.0. Data loaders enhance notebook performance by executing code in advance, facilitating access to diverse data formats. Observable currently supports Node.js and Python for data loaders, requiring Python 3.12+ and self-managed dependencies.

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  • Drop #709 (2025-09-12): Keeping It Super Simple

    The Friday Drop is all about reducing cognitive load & keeping things simple. It showcases incplot, a terminal plotting tool for visualizing structured data, highlights 3 classic Unix utilities, & links to a minimalist guide to Linux commands.

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  • Drop #708 (2025-09-11): Toss-Up Thursday

    More is less, in today’s Drop since it’s most-ly featuring pagers, SQL tutorials, and a bonkers number of drop-in CSS themes to make you looks like a CSS, SQL, and terminal genius.

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  • Drop #706 (2025-09-08): Idle

    Today’s Drop sits idly by while you learn about various “idle” items. (You’ll have to click into this one for the deets.)

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  • Bonus Drop #97 (2025-09-07): Bridging, Building & Browsing

    The Bonus Drop discusses the transition from Inoreader to FreshRSS, highlighting RSS-Bridge as a tool to convert websites into RSS feeds. It explores using SmolLM3 for named-entity recognition, and reviews Flow, a Chromium-based browser considered as a potential alternative to Arc after its acquisition by Atlassian.

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