hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #495 (2024-07-08): Monday Afternoon Grab Bag

    Today’s potpourri Drop includes the evolution of text abbreviations (that ends in a weather surprise!), a new-ish color palette for accessible UI design, and the benefits of using low-tech developer tools.

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  • Drop #493 (2024-07-05): Fresh Friday

    Today’s Drop takes a quick look at the recent POSIX.1-2024 Standard, showcases the new digs for Mozilla’s HTTP Observatory, and covers Portier — a self-hostable, password-less login service that intermediates between websites and authentication providers.

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  • Drop #492 (2024-07-03): It’s Always DNS

    Today’s Drop takes a look at — RFC 9606 which introduces the RESINFO DNS resource record type, — doggo – a modern command-line DNS client written in Go, and — Microsoft’s Zero Trust DNS (ZTDNS) Framework.

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  • Bonus Drop #51 (2024-06-30): Knowledge Drop

    Thanks to Dr. Ross, the weekend Bonus/Knowledge Drop discusses the migration from cronjobs to systemd timers for scheduled tasks on Linux systems. It highlights the flexibility and features of systemd timers, including calendar-based scheduling, dependencies, and a Terminal User Interface tool for managing services and logs. The post also provides practical examples and commands for…

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  • Drop #487 (2024-06-25): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of “The Drop” features a full inference engine in a font, some longform blathering on fonts and road signs, and a featured set of fun pixel fonts.

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  • Bonus Drop #50 (2024-06-23): Something For Everyone

    The weekend Bonus Drop offers something for everyone, including Reasonable Colors for accessible, high-contrast color combinations, RoosterJS for rich text editing, and insight into extreme UV index conditions. Learn about the UV Index’s origins and global standardization, and the availability of mobile apps to track UV radiation levels for public health safety.

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  • 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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