hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • 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 #675 (2025-07-03): drop –upgrade

    Today’s Drop features three kind-of-major updates to some froody FOSS. Deno 2.4 enhances developer experience with features like raw imports, OpenTelemetry integration, and improved Node.js compatibility; SQLite marks its 25th anniversary with performance upgrades like the sqlite3_rsync feature for faster sync; and, Ligolo-ng v0.8 introduces a web interface for collaborative tunneling, supporting multiple users effectively.

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  • Bonus Drop #87 (2025-06-22): Taking One For The Team

    The weekend Bonus Drop reviews Microsoft’s basic terminal text editor, edit, deemed unremarkable due to its lack of features. It highlights the Raycast Ollama extension, showcasing its capabilities for efficiently managing local and remote LLM models with advanced integrations. Finally, it introduces ttl.sh, an ephemeral Docker image registry for secure, temporary sharing without authentication.

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  • Drop #663 (2025-06-11): Wednesday Morning Grab Bag

    The midweek Drop covers MarkText, a FOSS Markdown editor with real-time preview and advanced features; fingerprinting w/WASM, highlighting its precision + privacy implications; & Cerberus, a Caddy plugin that implements SHA-256 challenges to combat automated AI bot abuse, prioritizing service protection over user convenience.

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  • Drop #662 (2025-06-06): Fool Around And Find Out Friday

    The Friday Drop discusses three neat web development topics: SnapDOM, which efficiently captures HTML elements as images, Mavo, which enables folks to create reactive web applications using HTML attributes without JavaScript, and Nicola Rennie’s TARD3IS tutorial, which teaches SVG manipulation through a fun D3.js project.

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  • Drop #660 (2025-06-04): Cyber Cyber Cyber 👨🏼‍🍳 🤖

    Today’s Drop is 100% focused on CyberChef👨🏼‍🍳! CyberChef is an intuitive browser-based tool for data manipulation and cryptography, allowing users to create recipes for data transformations effortlessly. The CyberChef Server offers a RESTful API for automated operations, while the CyberChef MCP server enables AI agents to perform tasks autonomously, enhancing data analysis capabilities. Explore these…

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  • Drop #658 (2025-06-02): The [Duck] Lake House

    Today’s Drop has a primer on data lakes and features DuckLake, which introduces a novel lakehouse architecture from the DuckDB folks that separates data management into three layers: storage, metadata, and computation. Using a database for metadata enhances performance and consistency, addressing issues present in traditional lakehouses. This design supports ACID transactions, schema evolution, and…

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  • Drop #656 (2025-05-26): A Different Kind Of Memor[y|ial] Day

    Today’s Drop emerges from a brutal travel/work week for a Memor[y|ial] focused issue that takes a peek at the DuckDB 1.3.0 release, which enhances data analysis with external file caching, improving performance by 75%, and introduces recursive query functionality for complex data structures. It further showcases jOOQ enables type-safe SQL queries in Java/Kotlin and features…

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  • Bonus Drop #83 (2025-05-11): The Mother[’s Day] Of All Drops

    The Bonus Drop returns! Today, we cover SveltePlot, a visualization framework improving upon Observable Plot with component-based reactivity; Dax, which streamlines JavaScript shell scripting across platforms; SSL libraries, highlighting the decline of OpenSSL 3.0 and alternative solutions; and an engaging web experience called Internet Roadtrip that offers a virtual group travel experience.

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