hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #627 (2025-03-25): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop covers Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, introduces. Hyperglot, and showcases the Kyiv Type Foundry.

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  • Drop #626 (2025-03-24): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop discusses Djot, a new markup language enhancing Markdown’s capabilities, and Bean CMS, a minimal content management system built on redbean. It also outlines a “Clean Slate Protocol” to remove ⭐️’d GH repos.

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  • Drop #625 (2025-03-20): I’ll Be RFCing You In All The Old Familiar Standards

    Today’s Drop visits three recent RFCs. RFC 9755, which enables UTF-8 support in IMAP4rev1 for international characters. RFC 9745 which introduces a standardized Deprecation header for APIs to inform users about endpoint lifecycle effectively; and, RFC 9748 which enhances NTP registries to improve security in time synchronization protocols.

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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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  • Drop #623 (2025-03-18): Typography^WResistance Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the drop tells the stories of three typefaces: VTC Garibaldi, VTC Ruby, and VTC Tatsuro. Each is designed to inspire hope and resistance.

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  • Drop #619 (2025-03-11): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric Drop highlights Mixfont, a font generator for visualizing typeface pairings; Words of Type, a multilingual encyclopedia providing expert typography terms and community access; and Fleckled, a digital archive preserving letterpress fonts for modern designers, emphasizing authenticity and handcrafted quality.

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  • Drop #618 (2025-03-10): Nothin’ But Bluesky

    Today’s thematic Drop features “The Blue Report,” which analyzes trending links on Bluesky using a scoring formula. It also explores the AT Protocol’s applications, emphasizing practical development. And, it introduces a study by Quelle and Bovet examines Bluesky’s network, revealing a left-center political bias and similarities to traditional social media, despite its decentralized nature. It…

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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 #615 (2025-03-03): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop includes a grab bag of tools and packages including MDB Tools for accessing Microsoft Access databases, unenv for ensuring JavaScript code runs consistently across environments, and uptasticsearch for simplifying data extraction from Elasticsearch into tabular formats.

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  • Drop #614 (2025-02-28): Friday Morning Grab Bag

    The Friday Drop discusses enhancing productivity through macOS tips, the introduction of SmallJS as a modern web development tool inspired by Smalltalk, and emphasizes the significance of digital preservation tools

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