hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Bonus Drop #69 (2024-11-24): Blue Skies, Four Squares, And Federated Blogs

    Today’s Bonus Drop covers spatial data visualization using Foursquare’s open-source POI dataset and decentralized blogging via WhiteWind’s platform built on AT Protocol. It also covers setting up an ATproto Personal Data Server (PDS).

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  • Drop #551 (2024-11-06): Web Slinging Wednesday

    Today’s Drop discusses three main topics: Cash, a lightweight JavaScript library for DOM manipulation similar to jQuery; the CSS :has() selector, which enables quantity queries for adaptive layouts; and custom CSS cursors that display favicons on external links but present usability and security challenges. The author announces potential interruptions due to personal circumstances.

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  • Drop #540 (2024-10-04): Friday Fun!

    Today’s Drop features three text- or terminal-based games: CortexForge, a challenging puzzle game; AI Dungeon 2, an AI-driven text adventure offering interactive storytelling; and Ninvaders, a command-line version of Space Invaders.

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  • Drop #535 (2024-09-24): Typography Tuesday

    Discover TODS for optimized web typography, explore vintage font collections in the Internet Archive, and learn about Unicode 16.0’s new characters in this Typography Tuesday edition of the Drop.

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  • Bonus Drop #59 (2024-08-31): A Flare For Change

    The weekend Bonus Drop covers the exploration of DuckDB’s core extension functions and creating a visualization tool for tracking changes between the published release, and in-dev new functions We use GitHub’s API in the browser to extract and format extension function data for visualization in Observable Plot.

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  • Drop #509 (2024-08-01): SQL Shenanigans

    Today’s Drop has some unique ways to use SQL ops in unconventional data sources through various tools. “pickaxe” allows SQL operations for web scraping’ “fselect” & “fsql” enables running SQL over the filesystem; and, “shellfs” is a DuckDB extension allowing shell command execution within SQL queries.

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  • Drop #463 (2024-05-10): Everybody’s [Workin|Playin]’ For The Weekend

    Today’s Drop features a new markup language called MinTyML that has been introduced, aiming to simplify HTML coding by providing a more concise syntax and reducing redundancy. It further features Go Katas covering various programming idioms to improve proficiency in Go. And, multiplayer Zork allows playing the classic game with friends for an enhanced experience.

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  • Drop #459 (2024-04-26): It’s All Fun And Games

    Today’s game-centric Drop features Lantern, Hexcodle, and JS Challenger. Lantern uses JavaScript and D3 for a reimagined Zork I experience, Hexcodle tests RGB knowledge, and JS Challenger provides JavaScript coding tasks for skill improvement and practice.

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  • Drop #458 (2024-04-25): Design Time

    Today’s Drop discusses the importance of thoughtful URL design, the exploration of avatar creation resources, and the introduction of Bento Grids as a resource for overcoming creative blocks in UX layout design. It highlights creative URL examples, avatar creation tools, and layout styles to enhance the design process.

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  • Drop #432 (2024-03-25): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    In today’s Daily Drop, we have the regular Monday grab bag of resources. We highlight Fedica, a platform for posting to Mastodon and Bluesky, the Navy’s Solar Eclipse Computer, and Vanilla Breeze, a tool for converting Tailwind-classed HTML tags to semantic CSS.

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