hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Bonus Drop #66 (2024-11-03): Eye Sea Ewe

    Today’s Drop talks about ICU (International Components for Unicode), whic is essential for Unicode support in software. The recent ICU 76 release improves character handling and formatting capabilities. Tools like opstr and go-icu-regex enhance string operations and regex handling, while Intl.NumberFormat in JavaScript simplifies numeric formatting across various styles and currencies, ensuring robust functionality.

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  • Drop #548 (2024-11-01): Featured Friday

    Today’s Drop highlights three useful resources: Secure ShellFish, a native SSH/SFTP client for macOS/iOS emphasizing performance and accessibility; Get Out Of My , which guides on browser meta tags and link previews; and Tini, a minimal init system for containerized environments ensuring effective process management and stability.

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  • Drop #547 (2024-10-31): Toss-Up Thursday

    Today’s Drop highlights Bluesky’s CLI tool, goat, enabling robust interaction with ATproto networks, and Sampler, which visualizes shell command outputs effectively. The 2024 CSS Survey shows a critical shift to “New CSS,” emphasizing container queries, the :has() selector, and subgrids, streamlining web development and enhancing layout capabilities.

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  • Drop #544 (2024-10-21): If It Walks Like A 🦆

    Today’s Drop covers the DuckDB HTTP Server Extension, a project that transforms DuckDB instances into HTTP OLAP API servers. Additionally, it covers “DuckDB in Action,” a practical DuckDB guide, and introduces “masto.sh,” a tool for backing up Mastodon posts in #DuckDB.

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  • Drop #543 (2024-10-20): Dev-Mode Engage

    Today’s Drop discusses the introduction of JavaScript Import Maps, allowing cleaner alias management for module imports even in vanilla JS + CDN projects, thus enhancing code cleanliness and dependency management. It also covers a microservice built with Deno to convert PDFs to text, and highlights the “pancake SQL pattern” for optimizing SQL queries using window…

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  • Drop #537 (2024-09-30): It’s About Time

    Today’s Drop covers three resources centered on time: “Time as a Grid,” a visual representation of time using grids; Greptime, a database for managing time series data; and Primitive, an image processing tool that uses geometric shapes.

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  • Bonus Drop #64 (2024-09-22): Extensionating Circumstances

    In today’s Bonus Drop we build a very basic, local-first VS Codium (also works in VS Code) extension for generating TL;DR summaries from a local Ollama prompt. Should be super straightforward to modify for other generation needs in VS Codium.

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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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  • Drop #534 (2024-09-23): The Great Prepender[s]

    Today’s Drop introduces two web services, ful.co and WAVE, which facilitate URL manipulation for specific tasks: extracting SVG elements and checking web accessibility, respectively. It also offers a guide on creating a custom URL prepender processing services using Deno and Hono.

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  • Drop #533 (2024-09-20): Fast & Furious Friday

    Today’s Drop covers the HTTP QUERY method, a proposed addition to enhance complex read operations in web APIs, allowing query parameters in the request body instead of URLs. This improves flexibility, caching, and automatic retries. Additionally, tools like hr and reachable enhance terminal readability and domain status checking, respectively.

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