hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #775 (2026-02-23): Another Regularly Expressive Drop

    Today’s Drop discusses portit, a Rust TUI for managing TCP ports; MinRX, a new regex engine in GNU gawk focusing on performance and POSIX compliance; and Regexle, a puzzle game that blends Wordle mechanics with regex challenges.

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  • Bonus Drop #111 (2026-02-22): Screech • Spruce Up • Sandbox

    The weekend Bonus Drop covers three key topics: an AWK script simulating a Bell 103 modem for data exfiltration, the revamped Go 1.26 ‘go fix’ tool enhancing code modernization, and Scraping Sandbox, an open-source web scraping platform offering a playground for developers to practice with synthetic e-commerce data in a “modern” site.

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  • Bonus Drop #110 (2026-02-14): Talk About The Weather

    Today’s Drop discusses three tools: Kaku, a macOS WezTerm fork enhancing ergonomics; Pake, a Tauri tool creating cross-platform desktop apps from URLs; and Fair Weather, a vanilla JS weather app scoring activities based on conditions.

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  • Drop #767 (2026-02-04): If It Walks Like A…

    Today’s make-up Drop discusses two new #DuckDB community extensions: duckdb_mcp, which integrates SQL with Model Context Protocol servers for advanced data analysis, and dns, enabling versatile DNS lookups. Additionally, DuckDB has enhanced its logging capabilities to support detailed debugging across multiple log types, improving usability and troubleshooting efficiency.

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  • Drop #761 (2026-01-22): If It Walk Like A Duck…

    Today’s 🦆 Drop covers several notable enhancements in the #DuckDB ecosystem, including a new Go-based duckdb-mcp server for improved LLM interaction with databases, the Yardstick extension for reusable SQL calculations at varying aggregation levels, and the DataSketches extension facilitating efficient streaming algorithms for data analysis.

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  • Drop #745 (2025-12-23): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop covers the RFSL’s “Human Writes” font designed to evade Meta’s ad ban, allowing messages deemed political to be visually obscured. It also covers David Jones “pay-what-you-want” bundle of fourteen fonts, “Advent of Type 2025.” And, shows how to “hack” Adobe to use their fonts without breaking the bank.

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  • Drop #737 (2025-11-25): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses the intersection of typography and AI, featuring the Gregory Grotesk typeface, characterized by its versatility and clarity. It also highlights Monotype’s Human Types project, exploring designers’ collaborations with AI. Additionally, the ~new CSS line-height unit enhances web typography, resolving spacing issues for cleaner layouts, emphasizing simplicity and effectiveness.

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  • Drop #736 (2025-11-24): In Living Color

    Today’s color-full Drop covers Color.js, a revolutionary JavaScript color library that excels in advanced color operations, offering accurate gamut mapping and ΔE calculations across many color spaces. It also showcases Color Palette Pro, a tool that simplifies color selection with intuitive palette generation, and introduces Super Coloring which provides engaging adult coloring pages (for printing…

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  • Drop #735 (2025-11-21): Retro Edition

    The Friday Drop highlights three retro resources: Microsoft’s open-sourcing of Zork I-III for interactive fiction preservation, DOCTYPE magazine which revives hands-on web coding, and Retro Game Coders offering tutorials for 8-bit game creation. Each resource emphasizes education through tactile engagement with technology, preserving historical programming techniques.

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  • Drop #731 (2025-11-13): That’s So Random

    Today’s Drop digs into Homebrew’s big 5.0 release, Chaser System’s research into just what these coding agents do on/from your system, and ends with a way to get rid of some “AI” frustration.

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