hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #730 (2025-11-11): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop introduces three unique typefaces: Myrna, which enhances code readability by equalizing symbols and letters; Tongari Display, inspired by Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai; and Avería, generated by averaging various fonts on the creator’s computer. Each font showcases innovative design principles.

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  • Drop #727 (2025-11-06): Forgotten But Not Gone

    Today’s Drop brings some items from simpler times back into active memory: the HTMLTableElement API for creating data tables without libraries, the ‘leave’ terminal command for GTHeckO reminders, and an effective modern use for the HTML element.

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  • Drop #725 (2025-11-03): Monday Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop pits terminal emulators against each other (and the results are sad + surprising). It also showcases a11y.css, a lightweight tool for instant accessibility checks on webpages, and Ben Joffe’s fast-date algorithm, which improves date conversion speeds by 2-10% through a simplified approach.

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  • Drop #724 (2025-10-31): If It Walks Like A Duck

    The Friday Drop is just super ducky! It highlights the integration of mlpack as a DuckDB extension, enabling machine learning models like AdaBoost directly within SQL queries. Additionally, the Dash extension provides a user-friendly data exploration and dashboard tool, while the experimental magic extension offers file classification capabilities.

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  • Drop #723 (2025-10-29): CSS • JS • HTML

    Today’s Drop discusses three core web topics: CSS’s 239 methods of representing the color blue (O_O), the inefficiencies of using await in JavaScript loops, and the HTML Popover API for creating overlays. It emphasizes the complexities arising from legacy choices in CSS, performance patterns in JavaScript, and the [in]accessibility features of popovers.

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  • Bonus Drop #101 (2025-10-26): Really Random Resources

    The weekend Bonus Drop covers Typst 0.14.0 which introduces significant enhancements, including automatic tagging for accessible PDFs, improved HTML export, and character-level justification. We also link to Phil Gyford’s memoir that reflects on his nostalgic first experiences with the internet in 1995. Finally, it covers and provides a Dockerfile for Restring, a SvelteKit web app…

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  • Drop #719 (2025-10-17): Free-Form Friday

    Today’s Drop covers Gephi Lite, a user-friendly, browser-based tool for network visualization, allowing exploration of graphs on mobile devices without installation. It also digs a little into Isochrones which represent areas reachable within specified travel times, accounting for real-world conditions. And, it links to the prompts in The Obsidian AI tagger which enhances note-taking through…

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  • Drop #718 (2025-10-16): Toss-Up Thursday

    Today’s Drop shares insights on three resources: WorkKit, which decodes Apple’s iWork formats; a critique on software “un-quality” normalization; and AstroDither, a creative coding project for audio-visual interaction.

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  • Drop #717 (2025-10-14): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop explores comic book lettering as a visual language with distinct grammar, emphasizing artistic conventions. It features the New Heterodox Mono font, blending elegance with functionality in programming. Additionally, it highlights the necessity of using relative CSS units for accessible web design and mastering modern typography principles for improved user experience.

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  • Drop #716 (2025-10-13): If You Build It, It Will (Probably) Run

    Today’s Drop has a focus on Meson, a build system/toolkit that streamlines builds and dependency management. Qman (build with Meson) modernizes Unix manual pages with user-friendly features, while mpv (also built with Meson) delivers a minimalist, high-performance media playback experience, focusing on control and extensibility.

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