hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #613 (2025-02-27): Let’s Get Visual

    Today’s Drop sports a timeline visualizing the evolution of Unix shells, the rDNS Map project mapping the IPv4 space using ClickHouse, and a digital recreation of Moses Harris’ 1766 color theory work.

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  • Drop #612 (2025-02-25): Typopgraphy Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop features Tendrilis, a script replacing the Latin alphabet with vine-like characters. It also takes a look at the serif revolution, and features two “instrumental” (free) fonts.

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  • Drop #609 (2025-02-20): The “Not Everything Is Horrible In 2025” Drop

    Today’s un-horrible Drop covers a cool Typst package to use Markdown for content and introduces Typst’s new preliminary support for HTML output. It closes with some Datawrapper and #RStats crunchy goodness.

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  • Drop #607 (2025-02-18): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop is a deep dive into typography’s dual role in power dynamics: from authoritarian control to resistance movements, featuring the Fonts for Freedom initiative and the accessible Inclusive Sans typeface.

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  • Bonus Drop #76 (2025-02-16): I’m Sensing A Theme

    The weekend Bonus Drop has a concise overview of the Rosé Pine and Catppuccin theme suites, and introduces a tutorial on creating JavaScript-free scroll progress indicators using modern CSS techniques.

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  • Drop #605 (2025-02-14): Free-For-All Friday

    Today’s Drop sports Cockpit, a user-friendly web-based server management tool; an in-depth look at HTML whitespace challenges and solutions; and the latest DuckDB 1.2.0 release featuring improved performance, enhanced CSV/Parquet handling, and new SQL features.

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  • Drop #600 (2025-01-28): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop takes a gander at the music of type scales, hellboxes in traditional typesetting, and features the free font, Bricolage Grotesque.

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  • Drop #599 (2025-01-27): Contain Your Enthusiasm

    Today’s Drop starts a theme for the week — containers — starting with Linux namespaces. We break things up with a look at Apple’s design philosophy for rounded corners, and upcoming improvements in the Go programming language.

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  • Drop #598 (2025-01-24): Development Distractions

    Today’s Drop features Fixi.js—a compact hypermedia control framework beneficial for inline editing, search interfaces, and lazy loading with modern JavaScript features. There’s a new CSS attr() function in town, and we peek at how use it to work with all CSS properties for dynamic styles. And, the CSS Flexbox Playground let us to experiment with…

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  • Drop #597 (2025-01-23): Toss-Up Thursday

    Today’s diverse Drop showcases a proposed DNS-based authentication system allowing universal identities for digital logins, Tarjetas Rojas as tools to protect immigrants’ rights during encounters with authorities, and Sprinter, a distraction-free writing platform that integrates with Postbox.

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