hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Bonus Drop #96 (2025-09-01): Labor-free Edition

    Today’s Bonus Drop looks at resources aimed at reducing labor: Lorem++ API for text and object generation, Zola for fast static site creation using TOML and Tera templates, and Symbols for quick symbol lookup.

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  • Drop #701 (2025-08-28): Thursday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop discusses advancements in CSS, highlighted by the calc() function, and its surprising applications, particularly regarding infinity in calculations. It also examines vulnerabilities in AI image scaling as reported by Trail of Bits. Lastly, it mentions Yamanotes, a music box featuring JR Yamanote Line melodies.

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  • Bonus Drop #95 (2025-08-24): Vibe-less Coding; Vibe-ful Checking

    The weekend Bonus Drop emphasizes the importance of security for vibe or vibe-less personal web apps, highlighting key strategies such as SSRF protection, rate limiting, robust CSRF tokens, & more. It also provides a plethora of prompts to help you infuse security into your vibe-coded creations.

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  • Drop #698 (2025-08-22): Friday Morning Grab Bag

    The Friday Drop presents a novelist’s tiny model improving creative writing through Fibonacci word intervals, MDN’s redesign enhancing usability for web developers, and Lucide, an open-source icon library featuring customizable, scalable icons for various projects.

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  • Drop #697 (2025-08-21): Editor-ial Edition

    Today’s Drop explores 3 distinct text editing perspectives: Zedless prioritizes privacy & community ownership by forking the Zed editor, Neovim serves static content efficiently through a Lua plugin leveraging its async capabilities, and MCP Text Editor Server offers line-based editing with secure operations.

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  • Drop #696 (2025-08-19): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop explores three retro mono fonts: Epson MX-80, DSEG, and IBM Courier. The Epson MX-80 was a pioneering dot matrix printer known for precision, capturing significant market share. DSEG emulates digital display fonts, including weather symbols, while IBM Courier offers a digitized version for coding. Each provides a nostalgic connection…

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  • Drop #695 (2025-08-18): Monday Afternoon Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop features Overtype, a lightweight markdown editor, focuses on user-friendly design and minimal size. It further showcases SystemD Service Hardening which provides methods to enhance security for services. And concludes with a GH Migration script to automate moving GitHub repositories to Forgejo, supporting various configurations and strategies.

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  • Bonus Drop #94 (2025-08-17): /security

    The weekend Bonus Drop discusses current issues in XML security, notably the libxml2 maintainer’s frustrations with unpaid vulnerability triaging, as well as a proposal to remove XSLT, citing its obsolescence and security risks. Additionally, it introduces Slash Pages, a directory for personal web pages, emphasizing concerns about content theft by AI bots.

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  • Drop #694 (2025-08-14): Miles & Miles Of CSS Styles

    Today’s Drop showcases two CSS frameworks: Missing and Web Awesome. Missing emphasizes semantic HTML and customization through CSS properties, suited for smaller projects. Web Awesome, built on Shoelace, offers framework-agnostic components, Font Awesome support, and accessibility focus. A demo showcases their application in a CVE lookup app, highlighting their effectiveness.

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  • Drop #693 (2025-08-11): Long-form Monday

    Today’s Drop features Jimmy Hartzell’s critique of LLMs as unreliable assistants needing human oversight, Ian Ireland’s explanation of SpiderMonkey’s innovative four-tier execution model enhancing JavaScript performance, and concerns about Flock’s AI surveillance system flagging individuals based on travel patterns, raising issues of transparency, bias, and surveillance.

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