hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Bonus Drop #85 (2025-06-08): Simulated • Wrapped • Neologized

    The weekend Bonus Drop discusses a typewriter simulator by Marcin Wichary, mimicking the experience of traditional typing while educating users about the history of keyboards. It also examines Jonathan’s effort to recreate the effective design of the now-defunct Weatherline app, highlighting the importance of simplicity and user needs in data visualization.

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  • Drop #662 (2025-06-06): Fool Around And Find Out Friday

    The Friday Drop discusses three neat web development topics: SnapDOM, which efficiently captures HTML elements as images, Mavo, which enables folks to create reactive web applications using HTML attributes without JavaScript, and Nicola Rennie’s TARD3IS tutorial, which teaches SVG manipulation through a fun D3.js project.

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  • Drop #657 (2025-05-27): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop explores the world of sound-responsive typography which reveals how typography transcends visual design by integrating auditory elements. This innovative approach allows text to dynamically respond to sound, creating immersive experiences. Wavefont exemplifies this trend, enabling data visualization through specialized typography that reacts to audio, enhancing emotional connections and storytelling through visual transformation.

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  • Drop #654 (2025-05-16): Fool Around And Find Out Friday

    Today’s Drop highlights three spiffy tools: uchū offers a modern color palette for web design, emphasizing usability and flexibility; evildeno showcases Deno’s capabilities in offensive security operations, illustrating various attack techniques; and ThumbHash generates efficient image placeholders, enhancing website speed and user experience.

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  • Bonus Drop #83 (2025-05-11): The Mother[’s Day] Of All Drops

    The Bonus Drop returns! Today, we cover SveltePlot, a visualization framework improving upon Observable Plot with component-based reactivity; Dax, which streamlines JavaScript shell scripting across platforms; SSL libraries, highlighting the decline of OpenSSL 3.0 and alternative solutions; and an engaging web experience called Internet Roadtrip that offers a virtual group travel experience.

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  • Drop #645 (2025-04-29): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s edition of the Drop explores typographic infrastructure, highlighting IKEA’s journey from traditional fonts to modern self-hosting solutions. It also presents FontDiffuser, a framework that enhances font generation through innovative diffusion techniques. The featured free font, Costaline, balances contemporary elegance with classic elements, offering diverse styles and multilingual support.

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  • Drop #639 (2025-04-15): [Tardy] Typography Tuesday

    Today’s [tardy — due to DOGE] Typography Tuesday covers a study questioning I-beam designs using typeface cross-sections, the manicule’s historical significance as a symbol, and a modern sans serif font, Ronzino, contrasting with Arial in design and functionality.

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  • Drop #637 (2025-04-11): Ready Player One

    The Friday Drop is designed to de-stress us all with three very different games. “cereal-words” is an interactive word puzzle for **Typst**; “robotfindskitten” is an absurd ASCII art game where players seek a kitten among symbols; and, “Gorched” is a terminal artillery game reminiscent of Scorched Earth, featuring procedurally generated battlefields. Hopefully this keeps your…

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  • Drop #624 (2025-03-19): Into The [AT]proto-Verse

    Today’s Drop explores ATproto-verse & shows how to build custom records w/only Bash/curl. It highlights the atmo.lol URL shortener, & takes a first stab at analyzing the current extent of the tangled.sh universe.

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  • Bonus Drop #79 (2025-03-16): Weekend Hodge Podge

    The Weekend Bonus Drop covers Prettier, an opinionated code formatter ensuring consistent style across programming languages, and Krep, a fast C-based string search tool outperforming traditional utilities. It also includes updates to the {hrbrthemes} #RStats package.

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