hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #587 (2025-01-07): (Tardy) Typography Tuesday

    Today’s (tardy) typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses kinetic typography, a technique that animates text to express ideas through motion, and the Fast Font typeface, which enhances reading speed by bolding word beginnings. It also introduces CSS’s text-wrap: balance property, improving visual text layouts by evenly distributing text across lines for better readability.

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  • Drop #586 (2025-01-06): Scroll Out The Barrel

    Today’s Drop is all about “scrolling”, just in very different contexts. Blogscroll is a curated directory of personal websites, the seekrit middle section is all about accessibility; and Scrollama is a JavaScript library for implementing scrollytelling features efficiently.

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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 #582 (2024-12-31): Typography Tuesday

    The final Typography Tuesday of 2024 reviews a novel font ownership model that offers royalties for designers. Additionally, notable typography talks from the Letterform Archive explored data visualization, icon technologies, and historical design influences, emphasizing unique contributions from diverse designers. We can’t leave 2024 w/o a present, in the form of free fonts from the…

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  • Drop #573 (2024-12-17): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Typography-centric edition of the Drop features Badkeming’s exploration of kerning failures, the unique Alpha Lyrae font with glitch effects, and the narrative importance of comic lettering.

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  • Drop #572 (2024-12-16): Mixed-up Monday

    Today’s Drop introduces three distinct resources: MarkItDown, a Markdown conversion tool by (ugh) Microsoft; the “4 Colors Formula” for effective design using four color roles; and Hyperfine, a Rust-based benchmarking tool for performance measurement.

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  • Drop #570 (2024-12-11): Miles & Miles Of The CSS Styles

    Today’s Drop reviews 2024’s latest CSS advancements, [re]visits a CSS lightweight framework designed for simplicity, and explores a quick trick for creating color palettes using CSS.

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  • Drop #569 (2024-12-10): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop features Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps which showcase remarkable artistry with unique, hand-drawn letterforms that create a distinct typographic style for each location. Additionally, two free fonts, 3270font and Libre Caslon Condensed, offer modern adaptations of classic typography.

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  • Bonus Drop #68 (2024-12-08): All Strings ATTACHed (CLI Version)

    Today’s Bonus Drop discusses GoReleaser, an open-source tool designed to simplify cross-platform releases of Go projects, supporting various formats and integrations. It also introduces a project for a CLI version of the DuckDB Drop viewer.

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  • Bonus Drop #69 (2024-11-24): Blue Skies, Four Squares, And Federated Blogs

    Today’s Bonus Drop covers spatial data visualization using Foursquare’s open-source POI dataset and decentralized blogging via WhiteWind’s platform built on AT Protocol. It also covers setting up an ATproto Personal Data Server (PDS).

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