hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • 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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  • Drop #532 (2024-09-19): Divide and Conquer

    Today’s Drop discusses the importance of simplicity in web design, highlighting three aspects: Lorem Picsum, a flexible image placeholder service; CSS unit division for responsive designs using the calc() function; and the effectiveness of simple HTML in ensuring accessibility, particularly for public services.

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  • Drop #530 (2024-09-16): The Incredible Shrinking Web

    Size matters in today’s Drop! The internet’s bandwidth and reliability in remote areas will always be a concern, prompting the need for size and loading optimizations. Techniques like ThumbHash, BlurHash, and “Potato WebP” efficiently handle images for quick loading and limited bandwidth. cssnano optimizes CSS files for production, and Squoosh offers on-device image optimization without…

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  • Bonus Drop #62 (2024-09-15): Serverless Sunday

    The weekend Bonus Drop featurs Val Town: a cloud-based platform for coding and application development, offering serverless functions, persistence, cron job scheduling, REST API creation, and more. Additionally, there are examples of creating a CORS proxy for #CISA #KEV JSON, turning KEV JSON into Atom-flavored RSS XML, and a CRON job to email when new…

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  • Drop #529 (2024-09-13): Nomicons

    Today’s Drop has info about four technical resources: Webnomicon, Querynomicon, Sudonomicon, and “Annoying Things You Can Do With Javascript.” They cover web development, SQL, Unix systems, and annoying JavaScript practices.

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  • Drop #528 (2024-09-12): Happy ThursdAI

    Another ThursdAI Drop is upon us! In it, we cover Reader-LM, a small language model by Jina AI, for HTML-to-Markdown conversion; Janelle Shane’s exploration of AI-generated paint colors; Jon Evans’ frustrations with large language models (LLMs); and Space-Man, a showcase game using OpenAI’s new technologies.

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  • Drop #527 (2024-09-10): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s (well, *yesterday’s*) typography-centric edition of the Drop features accessibility, font evaluation, and San Francisco’s font evolution (and it’s 10th birthday!).

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