hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #578 (2024-12-18): Wonkish Wednesday

    Today’s very wonky Drop showcases 3 RFCs: HTTP Message Signatures enhance message integrity beyond TLS; RFC 9620 emphasizes designing protocols considering human rights; and RFC 9557 improves timestamp formats, allowing for rich metadata.

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  • Drop #572 (2024-12-16): Mixed-up Monday

    Today’s Drop introduces three distinct resources: MarkItDown, a Markdown conversion tool by (ugh) Microsoft; the “4 Colors Formula” for effective design using four color roles; and Hyperfine, a Rust-based benchmarking tool for performance measurement.

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  • Bonus Drop #70 (2024-12-14): Knowledge Drop

    Today’s Bonus [Knowledge] Drop takes you on my journey to add CIDR handling to DuckDB’s INET extension, which stores IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. It outlines the process of developing a function to expand CIDR notation into a list of IP addresses, detailing technical steps and functions involved.

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  • Drop #571 (2024-12-13): Frantic Friday

    Today’s Drop discusses the BlogFlock platform, which enhances RSS feeds through communal curation; the impact of generative AI on hiring practices, making resumes less reliable; and Matt Might’s shell scripts that improve clarity in writing by detecting passive voice and weasel words.

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  • Drop #570 (2024-12-11): Miles & Miles Of The CSS Styles

    Today’s Drop reviews 2024’s latest CSS advancements, [re]visits a CSS lightweight framework designed for simplicity, and explores a quick trick for creating color palettes using CSS.

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  • Drop #564 (2024-12-03): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop highlights the evolution of typography in adapting to digital environments, thereby enhancing readability and design versatility. Key resources and innovations in modern typography are also mentioned, including a free, modern monospaced font!

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  • Drop #563 (2024-12-02): Awash In Advents

    December features various “technical” advent calendars, such as Advent of Code and Advent of Rust, offering daily programming challenges to enhance skills. Today’s Drop showcases a bonkers number of code, “no-code”, and absolutely no-code challenges to keep you occupied throughout December.

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  • Bonus Drop #67 (2024-12-01): How Is It December Already?

    Today’s Drop presents three useful tools: Qlty, a Rust-based multi-language code quality tool that simplifies static analysis and formatting; untls, a Golang CLI tool enabling seamless TCP and TLS connections; and Censeye, developed by Censys Research to help identify and analyze hosts with similar characteristics to specified targets.

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  • Drop #562 (2024-11-26): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop features The Type Archive, established in 1992, closed in 2022 due to financial issues but has been digitized by the Science Museum Group. We also take a quick peek at Damien Guard’s 2023 Advent of Fonts and introduce the free brush-style font, Perfect Moment, which showcases handcrafted aesthetics while maintaining legibility across various…

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  • Drop #561 (2024-11-25): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop sports a Bluesky follower export tool for CSV files, the Shebanger CLI tool that reconfigures shell scripts into multiple shebang files, and Onefetch, a Rust-based CLI for offline Git analytics.

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