hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #558 (2024-11-20): Pipes • PDS Files • Proxy

    Today’s Drop discusses three data-centric tools: Vector, a high-performance observability data pipeline enhancing data collection and routing; ATFile, a shell script for storing and retrieving blobs in ATproto/PDS infrastructure; and Betwixt, a web debugging proxy for effective traffic analysis outside browsers using a familiar interface.

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  • Bonus Drop #68 (2024-11-17): Drinking From A More Civilized Firehose

    Bluesky introduced “Starter Packs” to help users build their feeds, accumulating nearly 30,000 packs. The Jetstream service, replacing the more complex firehose, simplifies data streaming, using JSON for easier access. Today’s Bonus Drop discusses leveraging Deno, Red Panda, and DuckDB for effectively managing and processing Starter Pack events via the Jetstream.

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  • Drop #552 (2024-11-08): One. Step. Forward.

    Today’s unexpected Drop emphasizes online safety, privacy, and resilience amidst growing threats from tech companies and governments. It starts a conversation about secure communication tools like Signal and offers resources for reducing online privacy exposures.

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  • Drop #548 (2024-11-01): Featured Friday

    Today’s Drop highlights three useful resources: Secure ShellFish, a native SSH/SFTP client for macOS/iOS emphasizing performance and accessibility; Get Out Of My , which guides on browser meta tags and link previews; and Tini, a minimal init system for containerized environments ensuring effective process management and stability.

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  • Drop #545 (2024-10-28): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    The Drop returns after a hiatus, featuring `gw` for continuous deployment, Blacklight Query for bulk website privacy scans, and YAAT for accessing ASCII values.

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  • Drop #544 (2024-10-21): If It Walks Like A 🦆

    Today’s Drop covers the DuckDB HTTP Server Extension, a project that transforms DuckDB instances into HTTP OLAP API servers. Additionally, it covers “DuckDB in Action,” a practical DuckDB guide, and introduces “masto.sh,” a tool for backing up Mastodon posts in #DuckDB.

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  • Drop #543 (2024-10-20): Dev-Mode Engage

    Today’s Drop discusses the introduction of JavaScript Import Maps, allowing cleaner alias management for module imports even in vanilla JS + CDN projects, thus enhancing code cleanliness and dependency management. It also covers a microservice built with Deno to convert PDFs to text, and highlights the “pancake SQL pattern” for optimizing SQL queries using window…

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  • Drop #539 (2024-10-03): Toss-Up Thursday

    Today’s Drop highlights three main topics: Pipet, a Golang tool for web scraping; “Need For Speed”, featuring resources like speedtest-rs and LibreSpeed for measuring internet speed; and techniques for poisoning AI scrapers to protect content.

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  • Drop #537 (2024-09-30): It’s About Time

    Today’s Drop covers three resources centered on time: “Time as a Grid,” a visual representation of time using grids; Greptime, a database for managing time series data; and Primitive, an image processing tool that uses geometric shapes.

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  • Bonus Drop #64 (2024-09-22): Extensionating Circumstances

    In today’s Bonus Drop we build a very basic, local-first VS Codium (also works in VS Code) extension for generating TL;DR summaries from a local Ollama prompt. Should be super straightforward to modify for other generation needs in VS Codium.

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