hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #534 (2024-09-23): The Great Prepender[s]

    Today’s Drop introduces two web services, ful.co and WAVE, which facilitate URL manipulation for specific tasks: extracting SVG elements and checking web accessibility, respectively. It also offers a guide on creating a custom URL prepender processing services using Deno and Hono.

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  • Bonus Drop #60 (2024-09-01): A Flare For Change: Part Deux

    Today’s Bonus-Bonus Drop expands on the theme of the previous Drop, and turns the somewhat static version into an interactive one where you can select which tagged DuckDB version to compare with ‘main’ when it comes to included core extension functions. Includes links to an Observable notebook and Observable Framework version as well.

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  • Bonus Drop #59 (2024-08-31): A Flare For Change

    The weekend Bonus Drop covers the exploration of DuckDB’s core extension functions and creating a visualization tool for tracking changes between the published release, and in-dev new functions We use GitHub’s API in the browser to extract and format extension function data for visualization in Observable Plot.

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  • Drop #519 (2024-08-22): Cache Me If You Can

    Today’s Drop discusses creating a lightweight internet research setup by integrating SearXNG, Jina, and a small Go program to provide a caching layer for search results. SearXNG is a self-hostable metasearch engine, while Jina’s Reader endpoint converts URLs to Markdown. Through a combined CLI, we can preview search results in the terminal and access cached…

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  • Drop #505 (2024-07-25): Toss Up Thursday

    Today’s Drop discusses Zed remote development/editing, now available for all users, a Go module and CLI tool for Open Graph tags, and Itsy Gitsy, a Rust-tool that generates static websites from Git repositories with customizable templates for various output formats.

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  • Drop #434 (2024-03-28): The One With The JavaScript Resources

    WinterJS is a new serverside Javascript option developed by Winter Community Group (WinterCG). It’s written in Rust, uses Mozilla’s SpiderMonkey engine, and can handle over 150,000 requests-per-second. It supports various JavaScript runtimes and can be compiled down to WebAssembly. Echochamber.js is a script for creating a comment form that saves comments to users’ LocalStorage. Codeacademy…

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  • Drop #493 (2024-07-05): Fresh Friday

    Today’s Drop takes a quick look at the recent POSIX.1-2024 Standard, showcases the new digs for Mozilla’s HTTP Observatory, and covers Portier — a self-hostable, password-less login service that intermediates between websites and authentication providers.

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  • Drop #485 (2024-06-21): Potential Weekend Distractions

    Today’s Drop features 3 JS-adjacent resources. The es-toolkit is a JS utility library with performance + size advantages; intro.js is a lightweight library for creating product tours, & kuma is a self-hosted site monitoring tool with various features.

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  • Drop #484 (2024-06-20): Data All The Way Down

    Today’s Drop is all “data infrastructure”-focused and covers a new event streaming platform in Go, a high-performance query engine in Rust, and Haskell middleware for integrating websockets with PostgreSQL.

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  • Drop #469 (2024-05-20): Make-Up Monday

    The late Monday edition of the Drop focuses on productivity tools and news sources. “btw” is a minimalist blogging platform, while the technique of using a calendar for task allocation is recommended for time management. “News Minimalist” uses a rating system for news significance. Additional text-only news sources are suggested for those who prefer lightweight…

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