hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Bonus Drop #61 (2024-09-08): Transcrbe, Transform, and Translate

    Bonus Drop #61 covers yt-transcribe, a macOS script for easy YouTube transcript extraction, xan, a powerful Rust-based CSV processor, and the benefits of using Go instead of Bash for scripting, including portability, reliability, and strong typing for efficient and error-free scripts.

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  • Drop #525 (2024-09-03): Typography Tuesday

    In today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop, get ready to upgrade your terminal and editor game with two free monospace fonts: Departure Mono, inspired by early CLIs & GUIs, and Karsa Mono, designed with a retro digital feel. Plus, dive into the quirky world of font sizes and line heights with “Font Size Is Useless”.…

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  • Drop #524 (2024-09-02): clang-format Two Ways

    Today’s holiday Drop is — as promised — all about clang-foramt. This is a pretty powerful tool for automatic code formatting in C, C++, and Objective-C (and more). It ensures consistent style, saves time, and reduces conflicts. With customizable options and integrations, it supports various languages and IDEs. A WebAssembly version allows running it in…

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  • Drop #522 (2024-08-28): Wacky Wednesday

    Wednesday’s Drop had three diverse resources folks can explore. ES2024 introduces new JavaScript features. EditorConfig maintains consistent coding styles across different editors using a simple .editorconfig file. And, see which classic Linux command-line tools are now considered obsolete.

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  • Drop #520 (2024-08-26): Shockingly Simple

    Today’s Drop covers using justfiles to create internal CLIs, introduces wcurl as a wrapper around curl for simplified file downloads, and explores Git’s “reuse recorded resolution” feature.

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  • Drop #516 (2024-08-13): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses the creation of a comprehensive pixel font pack by indie game developer Chevy Ray. We also explore the influence of typeface selection on political campaign logos, and highlight the services and offerings of the Letterform Archive, a nonprofit center dedicated to preserving and celebrating graphic design and typography.

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  • Drop #515 (2024-08-12): Starting The Week In Style[s]

    Today’s Drop gets back to basics and introduces 3 CSS resources: new.css, Almond.CSS, and Effective CSS One-Liners. Each is great for simple and efficient HTML styling.

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  • Drop #514 (2024-08-09): DuckDB Vector Search

    Today’s Drop showcases DuckDB’s nascent vector search superpowers by walking through an example of how to generate embeddings for CISA KEV vulnerabilities, performing similarity search, and having Ollama guess good titles for clustered groups of KEV vulns. Tis def a code block-heavy post. #DuckDB #RStats

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  • Drop #508 (2024-07-31): Wild, Wild, Wednesday

    The Drop is caught up to Wed! Trail of Bits conducted a security audit of Homebrew, uncovering some concerns including executable code vulnerabilities and CI/CD issues. We look at the highlights in the Drop and shunt readers to the completel report for more details. I expanded my Mastodon-thread of the initial features of Apple Intelligence…

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  • Drop #507 (2024-07-30): (Tardy) Typography Tuesday

    This tardy Typography Tuesday edition of the Drop features “Hello Type Friends!” a podcast by Elliot Jay Stocks, offering insights into the lives and work of typography professionals. It also takes a look at the A++ upgrade to the venerable Proxima Nova font, and links to a short survey to help grok the typegeist.

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