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  • Drop #411 (2024-01-30): Typography Tuesday

    This post delves into the technical aspects of fonts, featuring Ange Albertini’s font dissection work, the birth of font file formats, and the innovative typefaces from Swiss Typefaces. It highlights the meticulous process of creating a new font format, involving collaboration and promotion for widespread adoption. Swiss Typefaces offers trial versions of their fonts in…

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  • Drop #407 (2024-01-24): Talk About The Weather

    Discover the latest weather-related news and utilities in this engaging blog post. Explore the AEM 2023 United States Lightning Report, which reveals an increase in lightning activity across the U.S. and rare lightning activity in Alaska. Learn about the rare phenomenon of thundersnow in California and its impact on snowfall. Finally, get introduced to two…

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  • Drop #404 (2024-01-12): Weekend Project Edition

    Topiary is a Rust-based universal source formatter part of the Tree-sitter ecosystem. It leverages syntax tree understanding to reshape code for readability. Tweag revamped its CLI, addressing simplicity, memorability, discoverability, familiarity, and clarity. Following their principles, you can level up your own CLI tool. Check out the article for detailed insights.

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  • Drop #403 (2024-01-11): Join The Cheat [Sheet] Commandos

    The post reflects on adapting to new normals, encouraging positive framing of situations, and the use of cheat sheets to manage tech tasks. It provides links to interactive cheat sheets for HTML/CSS/JS and promotes SheCodes’ free coding resources. It also suggests a Go cheat sheet for those new to Golang.

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  • Drop #400 (2024-01-08): Fist Multi-Threaded Edition of 2024!

    Rio; You Don’t Know JS; Writing A Container In Rust It never fails. When I declare “X is my new daily driver” one or more super cool new shiny objects enters the field of view and threatens to upend stability. Such is the case with the first and last sections of today’s Drop. Sammich’d betwixt…

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  • Drop #399 (2024-01-05): Weekend Project Edition

    Explore the world of Wails, a project that enables you to write desktop applications using Go and web technologies. This post provides a step-by-step guide to getting started with Wails, using the Lit template, and creating a real app that fetches OpenGraph tags from a website.

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  • Drop #398 (2024-01-04): 2024 Skills Kickstart

    Explore the importance of SQL, JavaScript, and embeddings in tech with resources like Select Star SQL and JavaScript 30. Predictions for 2024 indicate a rise in the use of embeddings in tech, making it a crucial area to understand and master.

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