hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #485 (2024-06-21): Potential Weekend Distractions

    Today’s Drop features 3 JS-adjacent resources. The es-toolkit is a JS utility library with performance + size advantages; intro.js is a lightweight library for creating product tours, & kuma is a self-hosted site monitoring tool with various features.

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  • Drop #484 (2024-06-20): Data All The Way Down

    Today’s Drop is all “data infrastructure”-focused and covers a new event streaming platform in Go, a high-performance query engine in Rust, and Haskell middleware for integrating websockets with PostgreSQL.

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  • Drop #482 (2024-06-17): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    The Drop is back from holiday and starting the week with a grab bag of resources, including a deep-dive into Apple’s new AI ecosystem, a *blazing* fast Rust HTML-to-Markdown converter, and something spiffyfor the cartographers out there to drool over.

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  • Drop #481 (2024-06-07): Long-Form Friday

    Today’s Drop brings three long-form topic reads to hold folks over untl the 16th as your friendly neighborhood hrbrmstr heads to Acadia with the entire hrbrclan for a much needed holiday.

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  • Drop #480 (2024-06-06): Happy ThursdAI

    Today’s AI-centric edition of the Drop covers ChatDB, a browser-based tool for text-to-SQL ops; DataTrove, a platform-agnostic framework designed to simplify data processing tasks for AI pipelines; and, Google (et al.’s) attempt to use AI to envirowash AI.

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  • Drop #479 (2024-06-05): Mid-Week Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop’s covers three distinct topics: the impact of Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) on job applications (and how to hack the system), the Charm ecosystem for terminal user experiences, and the milestone release of DuckDB 1.0.0.

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  • Drop #477 (2024-05-31): Fast Friday

    Today’s condensed , theme-less edition of he Drop, features a Brewfile Throwdown for sharing Brewfiles, the CyberSecTools directory with ~2,400 cybersecurity tools, and the exploration of Bluesky and Threads for knowledge-sharing and community engagement by Newsmast.

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  • Drop #472 (2024-05-22): Happy ThursdAI

    Today’s AI-focused edition of the Drop we cover the need to defend against AI misuse. First, we introduce the concept of ai.txt for controlling data mining. We then look at strategies for blocking malicious AI bots and take a look at what we might be able to do w/r/t poisoning AI models. These strategies aim…

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  • Drop #469 (2024-05-20): Make-Up Monday

    The late Monday edition of the Drop focuses on productivity tools and news sources. “btw” is a minimalist blogging platform, while the technique of using a calendar for task allocation is recommended for time management. “News Minimalist” uses a rating system for news significance. Additional text-only news sources are suggested for those who prefer lightweight…

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  • Bonus Drop #49 (2024-05-19): 🦙s All The Way Down

    The weekend Bonus Drop covers various AI-centric tools like llamafile, whisperfile, and Firecrawl. llamafile simplifies the deployment of LLM/GPT models for local use, while whisperfile focuses on converting audio files. Firecrawl is a tool for crawling web content and converting it into Markdown format, and is 100% usable in a non-AI context.

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