hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Bonus Drop #74 (2025-02-02): It’s Been A Long Week

    Today’s pseudo-Bonus Drop slings your way systemd-nspawn, a lightweight containerization tool integrated with systemd, linuxpdf/doompdf; and 5 Calls, an advocacy app enabling folks to easily contact representatives for civic engagement.

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  • Drop #594 (2025-01-20): Tidying Up

    Today’s Drop discusses various technology topics, including misconceptions about Xiaohongshu’s “backdoor” , the dangers of malicious Google Ads mimicking legitimate software, enhancements for accessing Cooked.Wiki, and urgent Vite development server upgrades to address critical security vulnerabilities affecting older versions.

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  • Drop #583 (2025-01-01): Wrapping Day

    The inaugural Drop of 2025 takes a look back at the Drops of 2024, my 2025+ daily drivers, and covers a new-to-me tool: Mise.

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  • Drop #580 (2024-12-20): Safety First

    Today’s Drop puts us back into the safety zone, starting with “The 2025 Digital Security Checklist” which highlights strong passwords, encryption, and multi-factor authentication as essential for protecting digital assets. We then get introduced to systemd’s Credentials system to avoid keeping seekrits in the clear. Finally — just in time for the holiday season —…

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  • Drop #567 (2024-12-06): In Defense Of…

    Today’s Drop explores three distinct topics centered around safety. We take a deep look into DuckDB’s sophisticated query optimization capabilities, examine a new security tool for GitHub Actions workflows, and review the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s comprehensive guide to surveillance self-defense. Each section provides practical insights and actionable guidance for their respective domains.

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  • Drop #563 (2024-12-02): Awash In Advents

    December features various “technical” advent calendars, such as Advent of Code and Advent of Rust, offering daily programming challenges to enhance skills. Today’s Drop showcases a bonkers number of code, “no-code”, and absolutely no-code challenges to keep you occupied throughout December.

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  • Drop #558 (2024-11-20): Pipes • PDS Files • Proxy

    Today’s Drop discusses three data-centric tools: Vector, a high-performance observability data pipeline enhancing data collection and routing; ATFile, a shell script for storing and retrieving blobs in ATproto/PDS infrastructure; and Betwixt, a web debugging proxy for effective traffic analysis outside browsers using a familiar interface.

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  • Drop #542 (2024-10-16): Happy WebsDay

    Today’s 🕸️ web-focused Drop discusses Apple’s proposal on reducing TLS certificate lifespans to 45 days, shows how to extend the Manifest V2 extension lifespan in Chromium-based browsers, and introduces the Gosub project, which is a new Rust-based web browser engine.

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  • Bonus Drop #65 (2024-10-05): CIDR Serendipity

    The weekend Bonus Drop discusses 3 tools: cidrex, a command-line utility for expanding IP addresses and CIDR ranges; ferment, a recreation of cidrex in C that focuses on smaller binary size; and libxo, a library for generating structured output in various formats.

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  • Bonus Drop #62 (2024-09-15): Serverless Sunday

    The weekend Bonus Drop featurs Val Town: a cloud-based platform for coding and application development, offering serverless functions, persistence, cron job scheduling, REST API creation, and more. Additionally, there are examples of creating a CORS proxy for #CISA #KEV JSON, turning KEV JSON into Atom-flavored RSS XML, and a CRON job to email when new…

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