hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #459 (2024-04-26): It’s All Fun And Games

    Today’s game-centric Drop features Lantern, Hexcodle, and JS Challenger. Lantern uses JavaScript and D3 for a reimagined Zork I experience, Hexcodle tests RGB knowledge, and JS Challenger provides JavaScript coding tasks for skill improvement and practice.

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  • Drop #439 (2024-04-08): Late Lecture Links

    This very late Monday Drop notes new (to me) resource called ecosyste.ms, which provides open data and APIs to analyze and secure open-source software. Additionally, a cautionary thread about the “zi” Zsh plugin manager is highlighted, exposing potential security risks and deception. Lastly, VNC Resolver is introduced as a website showcasing insecure VNC servers worldwide.

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  • Bonus Drop #44 (2024-04-07): Combined Make-Up Bonus + WPE Drop

    Today’s Bonus + WPE Drop is cull of ctags crunchy goodness. Universal ctags is a tool that generates an index file for programming languages to enable easy navigation within text editors. Geany, an IDE with extensive functionality, showcases the usage of ctags. Quickwit, an alternative tool, allows users to retrieve code-level information from projects using…

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  • Drop #435 (2024-03-29): Everything Is Broken

    Today’s (late) Drop (lightly) covers the xz debacle, an event which has caused a major setback in open-source software, raising concerns about security. “likes” provides a decentralized, privacy-focused alternative to traditional social media platforms. Serviceman simplifies running programs as system or user services, while pathman manages the system PATH environment variable across different operating systems…

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  • Drop #432 (2024-03-25): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    In today’s Daily Drop, we have the regular Monday grab bag of resources. We highlight Fedica, a platform for posting to Mastodon and Bluesky, the Navy’s Solar Eclipse Computer, and Vanilla Breeze, a tool for converting Tailwind-classed HTML tags to semantic CSS.

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  • Bonus Drop #46 (2024-03-24): Method To The Madness

    Today’s Drop discusses 3 resources, madonctl, csvlens, and DuckDB, and how they can be combined for data FUN. madonctl is a Mastodon client for the terminal, csvlens is a CLI tool for viewing CSV files, and DuckDB is a powerful database system that is quite magical.

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  • Drop #431 (2024-03-22): hrbrtips & hrbrtricks

    Today’s Drop shows how to convert data from Postgres to Parquet safely & painlessly, shows how to hack x-callback-urls @ the CLI for inter-app communication on macOS, and enhancing Bash scripts with LLM/GPTs. It emphasizes technical details and tools for each topic, providing insights and tips for data professionals and developers.

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  • Drop #427 (2024-03-15): Beware The IDEs Of March

    Today, we have a (somewhat) light and (hopefully) informative overview of modern and past integrated development environments (IDEs). It introduces Theia IDE, an open-source environment for building custom IDEs, and Replit Desktop, a standalone application offering a distraction-free coding environment. It also reflects on the evolution of IDEs over the past 30 years and the…

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  • Drop #426 (2024-03-14): Design Time

    This issue is all about “design,” featuring unDraw’s open-source illustrations, Design Spells’ micro-interactions and animations, and Design System Surf’s comprehensive catalog of design systems. unDraw, created by Katerina Limpitsouni, provides a vast collection of customizable illustrations. Design Spells showcases design details to create moments of joy and wonder, while Design System Surf catalogs and organizes…

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  • Drop #424 (2024-03-11): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop features three resources: Reqable, a closed-source freemium app for API development; The Minimum Vi(m) You Need To Know, a guide for Vi(m) users; and Ahab’s Leg Dilemma, an intriguing exploration. Reqable acts as a GUI on top of MITMproxy, offering various features. The Minimum Vi(m) provides essential idioms and a helpful cheat sheet,…

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