hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • 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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  • Drop #610 (2025-02-21): The Authentic Drop

    This Friday Drop explores various aspects of authenticity through 3 distinct perspectives. The Content Authenticity Initiative focuses on ensuring digital content provenance, URLQuery enhances URL security via multi-layered threat detection, & The Authentic Personality Scale assesses individual authenticity’s impact on psychological well-being.

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  • Drop #609 (2025-02-20): The “Not Everything Is Horrible In 2025” Drop

    Today’s un-horrible Drop covers a cool Typst package to use Markdown for content and introduces Typst’s new preliminary support for HTML output. It closes with some Datawrapper and #RStats crunchy goodness.

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  • Drop #607 (2025-02-18): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop is a deep dive into typography’s dual role in power dynamics: from authoritarian control to resistance movements, featuring the Fonts for Freedom initiative and the accessible Inclusive Sans typeface.

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  • Drop #605 (2025-02-14): Free-For-All Friday

    Today’s Drop sports Cockpit, a user-friendly web-based server management tool; an in-depth look at HTML whitespace challenges and solutions; and the latest DuckDB 1.2.0 release featuring improved performance, enhanced CSV/Parquet handling, and new SQL features.

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  • Drop #603 (2025-02-12): Suggest • Static • Search

    The Drop has returned after a hiatus, and we focus, today, on some tech that was partly responsible for said hiatus. Zed’s new beta Edit Predictions kicks coding efficiency up a few notches; Eleventy (11ty) facilitates data-driven site generation, and Pagefind offers robust static site search capabilities.

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  • Drop #602 (2025-02-03): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s missed flight-enabled Drop talks Kata Containers, a secure container runtime using lightweight VMs for enhanced workload isolation; LosslessCut, a cross-platform, FFmpeg-based video editing tool that allows lossless trimming and manipulation of media files; and a CMU seminar series addressing SQL optimization and potential alternatives.

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  • Bonus Drop #74 (2025-02-02): It’s Been A Long Week

    Today’s pseudo-Bonus Drop slings your way systemd-nspawn, a lightweight containerization tool integrated with systemd, linuxpdf/doompdf; and 5 Calls, an advocacy app enabling folks to easily contact representatives for civic engagement.

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