hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #592 (2025-01-15): In Living Color

    Today’s colorful drop features Flexoki, a color scheme for coding and prose; the “Definitive Ranking of Pantone Colors of the Year”, and. Colorify Rocks’ tools for discovering harmonious color combinations, emphasizing accessibility through various free resources.

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  • Drop #591 (2025-01-14): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop pulls out the legal pad to scribble some prose about the intricate world of font licensing. It also celebrates `womxn` designers in typography, and showcases an elegant font family from a featured collection.

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  • Drop #589 (2025-01-10): In The Zone

    Today’s Drop features three resources from HTML.ZONE: WASM’d and webbed MarkItDown; Awesome Homelab, a curated directory for open-source applications in personal server experimentation; and Beauty.Codes, which allows customizable code screenshots and snippet management.

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  • Drop #587 (2025-01-07): (Tardy) Typography Tuesday

    Today’s (tardy) typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses kinetic typography, a technique that animates text to express ideas through motion, and the Fast Font typeface, which enhances reading speed by bolding word beginnings. It also introduces CSS’s text-wrap: balance property, improving visual text layouts by evenly distributing text across lines for better readability.

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  • Drop #586 (2025-01-06): Scroll Out The Barrel

    Today’s Drop is all about “scrolling”, just in very different contexts. Blogscroll is a curated directory of personal websites, the seekrit middle section is all about accessibility; and Scrollama is a JavaScript library for implementing scrollytelling features efficiently.

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  • Bonus Drop #71 (2025-01-05): A ‘Flare’ For The Dramatic

    The 2025 inaugural Bonus Drop discusses Cap’n Proto—a high-performance data interchange format—and Cloudflare’s workerd, which enables running serverless functions using Cap’n Proto files. It also gives the lo-down on Cloudflare Workers AI, which offers free access to AI models via REST APIs, providing a foundation for deploying AI-powered applications easily.

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  • Drop #585 (2025-01-03): Cruftless

    Today’s crufty/cruftless Drop: shows how to simplify recipes from blogs/videos and access to daily top news items; and also offers a detailed analysis of the state of USB-C[ruft].

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  • Drop #584 (2025-01-02): Looking Back To Move Forward

    Today’s Drop discusses the 2024 digital landscape which shows that global internet access is unequal, with only two-thirds online and substantial disparities between income levels; IPv6 adoption surpassed 30%, and decentralized networks like Threads and Bluesky gained millions of users. 👀 to see where we’ve been and where we might be headed in these areas.

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  • Drop #583 (2025-01-01): Wrapping Day

    The inaugural Drop of 2025 takes a look back at the Drops of 2024, my 2025+ daily drivers, and covers a new-to-me tool: Mise.

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  • Drop #580 (2024-12-20): Safety First

    Today’s Drop puts us back into the safety zone, starting with “The 2025 Digital Security Checklist” which highlights strong passwords, encryption, and multi-factor authentication as essential for protecting digital assets. We then get introduced to systemd’s Credentials system to avoid keeping seekrits in the clear. Finally — just in time for the holiday season —…

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