hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #661 (2025-06-05): Context Is Critical

    Today’s drop reflects on Postman’s MCP “factory” which simplifies MCP server generation, but raises security concerns, as Virus Total reports nearly 8% of deployed servers (not just from Postman’s tool) showing vulnerabilities. It also talks about and posits on the “Natural Language Web” (NLWeb) — a protocol for querying websites in natural language, prompting debates…

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  • Drop #660 (2025-06-04): Cyber Cyber Cyber 👨🏼‍🍳 🤖

    Today’s Drop is 100% focused on CyberChef👨🏼‍🍳! CyberChef is an intuitive browser-based tool for data manipulation and cryptography, allowing users to create recipes for data transformations effortlessly. The CyberChef Server offers a RESTful API for automated operations, while the CyberChef MCP server enables AI agents to perform tasks autonomously, enhancing data analysis capabilities. Explore these…

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  • Bonus Drop #84 (2025-05-31): Shop^w Infer Local With Context

    Today’s Bonus Drop discusses the integration of an MCP server within a local Ollama workflow for improved contextual inference. It emphasizes the importance of model selection, particularly favoring qwen2.5-coder for its performance and context handling. The MCP paradigm enhances modularity and flexibility, streamlining tool calling processes while maintaining conversation state effectively. Includes links to working…

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  • Drop #658 (2025-05-28): CLI Thursday

    Today’s Drop introduces three command-line tools: Yazelix, sad, and angle-grinder. Yazelix integrates terminal-based development tools for efficient workflows; sad enables interactive file modifications with a preview-first approach for safety; and angle-grinder allows real-time log file analysis using a structured, pipeline-oriented method. Each tool enhances productivity in development.

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  • Drop #657 (2025-05-27): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop explores the world of sound-responsive typography which reveals how typography transcends visual design by integrating auditory elements. This innovative approach allows text to dynamically respond to sound, creating immersive experiences. Wavefont exemplifies this trend, enabling data visualization through specialized typography that reacts to audio, enhancing emotional connections and storytelling through visual transformation.

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  • Drop #656 (2025-05-26): A Different Kind Of Memor[y|ial] Day

    Today’s Drop emerges from a brutal travel/work week for a Memor[y|ial] focused issue that takes a peek at the DuckDB 1.3.0 release, which enhances data analysis with external file caching, improving performance by 75%, and introduces recursive query functionality for complex data structures. It further showcases jOOQ enables type-safe SQL queries in Java/Kotlin and features…

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  • Drop #654 (2025-05-16): Fool Around And Find Out Friday

    Today’s Drop highlights three spiffy tools: uchū offers a modern color palette for web design, emphasizing usability and flexibility; evildeno showcases Deno’s capabilities in offensive security operations, illustrating various attack techniques; and ThumbHash generates efficient image placeholders, enhancing website speed and user experience.

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  • Drop #649 (2025-05-05): A Python State Of Mind

    Today’s Drop discusses 3 Python (yes…*python*) projects: Docling, a library focused on accurate document processing; Notary, which generates badges to verify the provenance of Python packages on PyPI; and CVE Search MCP, a server for querying CVE data. Each serves distinct roles in enhancing software reliability and security.

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  • Drop #648 (2025-05-02): Happy FridAI!

    Today’s Drop discusses the integration of MCP protocol with AI tools like llama3.2, oterm, Context7, and Zed AI to enhance coding assistance and information retrieval. It emphasizes MCP’s role in structured data interaction, Context7’s up-to-date documentation for better coding accuracy, and Zed AI’s robust features, highlighting the evolution and benefits of these technologies in AI-assisted…

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  • Drop #644 (2025-04-28): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop covers Wave, a versatile terminal combining command-line and graphical features with AI integration; Geolocus, an open IP geolocation database offering physical and logical location data; and Lichen, a Rust-based tool for managing software license files and headers. Each tool aims to enhance productivity and accessibility.

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