hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #613 (2025-02-27): Let’s Get Visual

    Today’s Drop sports a timeline visualizing the evolution of Unix shells, the rDNS Map project mapping the IPv4 space using ClickHouse, and a digital recreation of Moses Harris’ 1766 color theory work.

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  • Drop #605 (2025-02-14): Free-For-All Friday

    Today’s Drop sports Cockpit, a user-friendly web-based server management tool; an in-depth look at HTML whitespace challenges and solutions; and the latest DuckDB 1.2.0 release featuring improved performance, enhanced CSV/Parquet handling, and new SQL features.

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  • Drop #602 (2025-02-03): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s missed flight-enabled Drop talks Kata Containers, a secure container runtime using lightweight VMs for enhanced workload isolation; LosslessCut, a cross-platform, FFmpeg-based video editing tool that allows lossless trimming and manipulation of media files; and a CMU seminar series addressing SQL optimization and potential alternatives.

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  • Drop #590 (2025-01-13): A SQL Trio

    Today’s Drop looks at three database tools: libSQL, Beekeeper Studio, and Outerbase Studio. libSQL is an SQLite fork enabling network operations. Beekeeper is a freemium SQL editor w/multiple db support. Outerbase is a browser-based management tool w/user-friendly features for various SQL databases, enhancing database interaction and management.

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  • Drop #583 (2025-01-01): Wrapping Day

    The inaugural Drop of 2025 takes a look back at the Drops of 2024, my 2025+ daily drivers, and covers a new-to-me tool: Mise.

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  • Bonus Drop #70 (2024-12-14): Knowledge Drop

    Today’s Bonus [Knowledge] Drop takes you on my journey to add CIDR handling to DuckDB’s INET extension, which stores IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. It outlines the process of developing a function to expand CIDR notation into a list of IP addresses, detailing technical steps and functions involved.

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  • Bonus Drop #68 (2024-12-08): All Strings ATTACHed (CLI Version)

    Today’s Bonus Drop discusses GoReleaser, an open-source tool designed to simplify cross-platform releases of Go projects, supporting various formats and integrations. It also introduces a project for a CLI version of the DuckDB Drop viewer.

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  • Drop #567 (2024-12-06): In Defense Of…

    Today’s Drop explores three distinct topics centered around safety. We take a deep look into DuckDB’s sophisticated query optimization capabilities, examine a new security tool for GitHub Actions workflows, and review the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s comprehensive guide to surveillance self-defense. Each section provides practical insights and actionable guidance for their respective domains.

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  • Drop #563 (2024-12-02): Awash In Advents

    December features various “technical” advent calendars, such as Advent of Code and Advent of Rust, offering daily programming challenges to enhance skills. Today’s Drop showcases a bonkers number of code, “no-code”, and absolutely no-code challenges to keep you occupied throughout December.

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  • Bonus Drop #69 (2024-11-24): Blue Skies, Four Squares, And Federated Blogs

    Today’s Bonus Drop covers spatial data visualization using Foursquare’s open-source POI dataset and decentralized blogging via WhiteWind’s platform built on AT Protocol. It also covers setting up an ATproto Personal Data Server (PDS).

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