hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • 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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  • Drop #692 (2025-08-08): Counting Sheep

    Today’s late Drop introduces “rawk,” an enhanced AWK compiler with modern features, discusses the accessibility benefits of the CSS pseudo-element “::after” for click targets, and explains “Markdown Monster,” a decision tree for identifying different Markdown parsers.

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  • Bonus Drop #93 (2025-08-03): Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad?

    The weekend Bonus Drop discusses the tension between technological advancement and accessibility, highlighting how specialized knowledge and costs limit benefits. It covers Shift browser’s workspace management features and critiques self-hosting AI models for their impractical costs. Additionally, it describes ADS-B WX’s innovative use of aircraft data to generate detailed wind maps.

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  • Bonus Drop #92 (2025-07-27): What The Shell?

    The Weekend Bonus Drop highlights three command-line tools: “Fortune Favors The Forgetful,” which creates custom reminders for command usage; “prettyping,” a colorful ping wrapper for better network diagnostics; and “zx,” a JavaScript/TypeScript library for easier shell scripting. Each tool enhances terminal productivity and usability in unique ways.

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  • Drop #684 (2025-07-24): Fixing A Hole

    Today’s Drop discusses the importance of moving away from centralized platforms due to security and privacy concerns. It also highlights the need for better approaches in web accessibility, specifically through the introduction of “color comfort scores.” Additionally, a tool is showcased for transforming long YouTube videos into web pages for easier consumption.

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  • Drop #682 (2025-07-21): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s theme-less Drop covers 3 topics: a guide on systemd’s internals, detailing D-Bus and cgroups; the OpenCLI Specification, which seeks to standardize command-line interfaces for better automation and discovery; and a humorous essay from the em dash addressing AI-related allegations.

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  • Bonus Drop #91 (2025-07-20): Back To Basics

    The weekend Bonus Drop highlights foundational tech topics: Shell, Grid/Flex, and Regex. It emphasizes the importance of revisiting these fundamentals, providing resources for enhanced command-line skills, modern CSS layouts, and mastering regular expressions.

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  • Bonus Drop #90 (2025-07-13): A Very Utilitarian Drop

    The weekend Bonus Drop features three useful resources: urltomarkdown, which converts web pages to Markdown; utiluti, providing command-line control for app associations; and Small Utilities, offering various helpful scripts for tasks like media conversion and file management.

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  • Drop #679 (2025-07-10): No, Thanks. I’m Just Browsing.

    Today’s Drop discusses 2 new “AI”-driven browsers: Dia & Comet, + introduces Kite. Dia offers an “AI”-laden browsing experience but lacks functionality and has privacy issues. Comet provides better integration and automation but is/will be costly. Kagi’s Kite focuses on delivering concise news summaries while ensuring user privacy.

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  • Drop #677 (2025-07-07): Just Another Manic Monday

    Today’s Drop ntroduces three useful tools: systemd-lsp, a Rust-based LSP for systemd unit files that provides syntax analysis and autocompletion; oh-my-logo, a Node.js CLI for creating ASCII art logos with customizable colors; and Mercure, an open protocol for real-time data updates via HTTP and Server-Sent Events.

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