hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • 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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  • Drop #617 (2025-03-07): Themeless

    The Friday Drop highlights Xit, an experimental version control system built in Zig, and advocates for the use of text labels to improve user interface clarity. It also showcases a creative interpretation of the “Bad Apple” animation using SSH key randomart images.

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  • 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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  • Bonus Drop #77 (2025-02-23): Hidden Agendas

    The weekend Bonus Drop showcases how to encode hidden data within Unicode characters, the Atlas of Surveillance which documents law enforcement technologies, and a crowdsourced Project 2025 “progress” tracker.

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