hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • 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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  • Drop #502 (2024-07-19): Fun? Friday

    Today’s (late) Drop includes discussions on terminal colors, Google’s URL shortener discontinuation, authenticity in AI-driven content, and a new heat stress measurement called ‘stickiness’.

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  • Drop #501 (2024-07-18): Toss-Up Thursday

    Today’s Drop discusses the limitations of bar charts, introduces “tbsp,” a domain-specific language for working with syntax trees, and “shfmt”/”sh”, a shell parser with Bash/POSIX shell support.

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  • Bonus Drop #53 (2024-07-14): You’ve Been Frame[worked]!

    Today’s drop is all about Observable Framework version 1.9.0! This June update introduces new features, including support for React & JSX and improved inline javascript expressions. The Observable HQ team replaced tags marking inline code blocks with comments, allowing much easier and far more powerful dynamic content creation. Dive into a larger example to explore…

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  • Drop #499 (2024-07-12): Hulk BASH!

    Today’s Drop highlights some Bash tricks, including process substitution, indented heredocs, and the use of readarray and jq for efficient data operations. It emphasizes the benefits and usage of these methods (with examples), and encourages readers to explore Bash builtins and source code for deeper understanding.

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