hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Bonus Drop #89 (2025-06-28): Shop^wInfer Local

    The Weekend Bonus Drop highlights 2 projects using local inference models for generating alt text and enhancing OCR, encouraging experimentation with these tools as a safeguard against the impending instability of mainstream AI services.

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  • Drop #675 (2025-07-03): drop –upgrade

    Today’s Drop features three kind-of-major updates to some froody FOSS. Deno 2.4 enhances developer experience with features like raw imports, OpenTelemetry integration, and improved Node.js compatibility; SQLite marks its 25th anniversary with performance upgrades like the sqlite3_rsync feature for faster sync; and, Ligolo-ng v0.8 introduces a web interface for collaborative tunneling, supporting multiple users effectively.

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  • Drop #672 (2025-06-27): If It Walks Like A…

    We have another 🦆-billed Drop today, featuring: DuckPlot — an open-source JavaScript library for generating charts from DuckDB with automatic SQL generation; The mcp-visualization-duckdb package, which allows users to create visualizations through natural language queries, bypassing SQL; & DuckDB-QuickJS which integrates a JavaScript engine for flexible data processing within SQL, enhancing DuckDB’s analytical capabilities.

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  • Drop #671 (2025-06-26): On Display

    Today’s Drop covers the recent, er…, “drop” of the W3C’s PNG-3 standard which introduces significant improvements, including official support for Animated PNG (APNG), enhanced color management, and EXIF data integration. It also covers Keith Clark’s RichInput web component enhances form inputs with real-time feedback; and links to a humorous post discussing the inevitable complexity in…

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  • Drop #670 (2025-06-24): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop features 3 monospaced fonts: Wumpus Mono, a freemium font designed for programming; Annotation Mono, a customizable variable font; and 🍁 Mono, a multilingual offering. Each font caters to specific needs in coding aesthetics and functionality, with a focus on legibility and innovative design.

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  • Drop #669 (2025-06-23): Monday Morning (Barely) Grab Bag

    The Monday Drop discusses 3 main topics: a Rube Goldberg-inspired data pipeline to archive X posts into #DuckDB, the #RStats package {fplot} for automating distribution plot creation in R, and an article from CSS-Tricks on advanced CSS color techniques, detailing color spaces and models for modern web development.

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  • Bonus Drop #87 (2025-06-22): Taking One For The Team

    The weekend Bonus Drop reviews Microsoft’s basic terminal text editor, edit, deemed unremarkable due to its lack of features. It highlights the Raycast Ollama extension, showcasing its capabilities for efficiently managing local and remote LLM models with advanced integrations. Finally, it introduces ttl.sh, an ephemeral Docker image registry for secure, temporary sharing without authentication.

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  • Drop #667 (2025-06-19): Jora Making Me Crazy

    Today’s Drop is all aboutJora: a versatile search tool designed for efficient information retrieval and organization in data files. It supports easy query writing, handles errors gracefully, removes duplicates, and preserves original data. The ecosystem includes jora-cli for JSON processing, Discovery.js for visualization, and JsonDiscovery for browser-based exploration of JSON data.

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  • Drop #664 (2025-06-12): A Cadre Of Clever CLIs

    Today’s CLI-focused Drop introduces 3 neaat utilities: sasqwatch enhances the Unix watch command with output history navigation and diff highlighting for better command monitoring. sizeof simplifies measuring sizes of strings or files in bytes, promoting LLM-assisted development. srgn leverages tree-sitter and regex for precise, language-aware code manipulation, aiding large-scale refactoring.

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  • Drop #662 (2025-06-06): Fool Around And Find Out Friday

    The Friday Drop discusses three neat web development topics: SnapDOM, which efficiently captures HTML elements as images, Mavo, which enables folks to create reactive web applications using HTML attributes without JavaScript, and Nicola Rennie’s TARD3IS tutorial, which teaches SVG manipulation through a fun D3.js project.

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