hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • 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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  • 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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