hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #681 (2025-07-17): Front and Center

    Today’s Drop explores 3 resources focusing on front-end technology. David Gerrells demonstrates JavaScript’s potential through a simulation of 20 million particles, while canidev.tools offers a comprehensive guide to DevTools across browsers. Jo Wood highlights modern color spaces’ importance in visual storytelling and data visualization, urging continued exploration of evolving technologies.

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  • Drop #680 (2025-07-15): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop looks at the evolution and significance of the Proxima Nova typeface, designed by Mark Simonson, which has gained popularity over four decades. It also highlights Atlassian’s typography system, and features a fun freebie font: King Sans.

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  • Drop #678 (2025-07-08): Typography Tuesday

    The typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses the significance of typeface names, highlighted by a graphic on etymology. It explores Zohran Mamdani’s campaign typography, which employed bold designs and vibrant colors, breaking traditional norms. Lastly, Setup Type Lab offers unfinished font families as beta versions for real-world testing, promoting experimentation in type design.

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  • Drop #677 (2025-07-07): Just Another Manic Monday

    Today’s Drop ntroduces three useful tools: systemd-lsp, a Rust-based LSP for systemd unit files that provides syntax analysis and autocompletion; oh-my-logo, a Node.js CLI for creating ASCII art logos with customizable colors; and Mercure, an open protocol for real-time data updates via HTTP and Server-Sent Events.

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  • Bonus Drop #89 (2025-06-28): Shop^wInfer Local

    The Weekend Bonus Drop highlights 2 projects using local inference models for generating alt text and enhancing OCR, encouraging experimentation with these tools as a safeguard against the impending instability of mainstream AI services.

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  • Drop #674 (2025-07-01): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop highlights the significance of small symbols like reference marks in typography, which aid in guiding readers while maintaining text flow. It features Gentium Plus, a versatile font with extensive multilingual support, and reveals how Apple’s historical design elements reside in its Symbols font, showcasing a nuanced connection to technology’s…

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  • Drop #673 (2025-06-30): Long[er] Form Monday

    Today’s Drop discusses the shortcomings of relying on LLMs in development, positing they may highlight poor tooling rather than technological progress. It also reviews Cloudflare’s secure video conferencing platform, Orange, and addresses the unsettling trend of businesses replacing human imagery with AI avatars, reflecting a diminishing emphasis on human value.

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  • Bonus Drop #88 (2025-06-28):

    The weekend Bonus Drop discusses two developer tools: MCPJam Inspector and mcp-cli, designed for testing and debugging Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Additionally, it explores a project on replicating Apple’s Liquid Glass effect in web browsers using SVG filters and Three.js, emphasizing creativity and ingenuity in overcoming browser limitations.

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  • Drop #671 (2025-06-26): On Display

    Today’s Drop covers the recent, er…, “drop” of the W3C’s PNG-3 standard which introduces significant improvements, including official support for Animated PNG (APNG), enhanced color management, and EXIF data integration. It also covers Keith Clark’s RichInput web component enhances form inputs with real-time feedback; and links to a humorous post discussing the inevitable complexity in…

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  • Drop #669 (2025-06-23): Monday Morning (Barely) Grab Bag

    The Monday Drop discusses 3 main topics: a Rube Goldberg-inspired data pipeline to archive X posts into #DuckDB, the #RStats package {fplot} for automating distribution plot creation in R, and an article from CSS-Tricks on advanced CSS color techniques, detailing color spaces and models for modern web development.

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