hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #701 (2025-08-28): Thursday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop discusses advancements in CSS, highlighted by the calc() function, and its surprising applications, particularly regarding infinity in calculations. It also examines vulnerabilities in AI image scaling as reported by Trail of Bits. Lastly, it mentions Yamanotes, a music box featuring JR Yamanote Line melodies.

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  • Drop #697 (2025-08-21): Editor-ial Edition

    Today’s Drop explores 3 distinct text editing perspectives: Zedless prioritizes privacy & community ownership by forking the Zed editor, Neovim serves static content efficiently through a Lua plugin leveraging its async capabilities, and MCP Text Editor Server offers line-based editing with secure operations.

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  • Bonus Drop #94 (2025-08-17): /security

    The weekend Bonus Drop discusses current issues in XML security, notably the libxml2 maintainer’s frustrations with unpaid vulnerability triaging, as well as a proposal to remove XSLT, citing its obsolescence and security risks. Additionally, it introduces Slash Pages, a directory for personal web pages, emphasizing concerns about content theft by AI bots.

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  • Drop #694 (2025-08-14): Miles & Miles Of CSS Styles

    Today’s Drop showcases two CSS frameworks: Missing and Web Awesome. Missing emphasizes semantic HTML and customization through CSS properties, suited for smaller projects. Web Awesome, built on Shoelace, offers framework-agnostic components, Font Awesome support, and accessibility focus. A demo showcases their application in a CVE lookup app, highlighting their effectiveness.

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  • Drop #690 (2025-08-06): It’s All A Game To You, Isn’t It

    Today’s Drop discusses three online games aimed at enhancing visual perception and design skills. “Hued” challenges players to match daily color hues; “It’s Centred That” tests visual precision with dot alignment; and “Can’t Unsee” sharpens attention to UI/UX differences in design choices. Each game emphasizes detail and creativity in design.

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  • Drop #689 (2025-08-05): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop looks at three topics: Flexflex, a JavaScript library that reshapes uppercase letters within defined boundaries; Fit, a variable font emphasizing geometric design and space usage; and the concept of overshoots, which ensures visual balance in letterforms.

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  • Bonus Drop #92 (2025-07-27): What The Shell?

    The Weekend Bonus Drop highlights three command-line tools: “Fortune Favors The Forgetful,” which creates custom reminders for command usage; “prettyping,” a colorful ping wrapper for better network diagnostics; and “zx,” a JavaScript/TypeScript library for easier shell scripting. Each tool enhances terminal productivity and usability in unique ways.

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  • Drop #681 (2025-07-17): Front and Center

    Today’s Drop explores 3 resources focusing on front-end technology. David Gerrells demonstrates JavaScript’s potential through a simulation of 20 million particles, while canidev.tools offers a comprehensive guide to DevTools across browsers. Jo Wood highlights modern color spaces’ importance in visual storytelling and data visualization, urging continued exploration of evolving technologies.

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  • Drop #669 (2025-06-23): Monday Morning (Barely) Grab Bag

    The Monday Drop discusses 3 main topics: a Rube Goldberg-inspired data pipeline to archive X posts into #DuckDB, the #RStats package {fplot} for automating distribution plot creation in R, and an article from CSS-Tricks on advanced CSS color techniques, detailing color spaces and models for modern web development.

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  • Drop #666 (2025-06-17): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s ominously numbered typography edition of the Drop explores the darker aspects of typography, focusing on Zalgo text, a chaotic representation achieved through Unicode, and Hellvetica, a subversively broken Helvetica font that distorts readability. It also discusses the Seven Deadly Sins of Typography, named after common mistakes, emphasizing how design can influence communication and provoke…

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