hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #742 (2025-12-17): The Rumors Of The Drop’s DemAIse Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

    Today un-hiatus’d Drop discusses a proposed AI URI scheme governed by the fictitious Artificial Intelligence Internet Foundation, raising concerns about its legitimacy and origins. It also outlines the features of Deno 2.6, including improved type-checking, new utilities, and enhanced security tools.

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  • Drop #741 (2025-12-08): Monday Afternoon Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop covers three main topics: Euporie, a terminal-focused suite for working with Jupyter notebooks featuring various applications; Alan, a macOS utility for outlining active windows; and the intriguing voyage of Argo float 7900904, which collected crucial ocean data near East Antarctica during an unexpected journey beneath ice shelves.

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  • Bonus Drop #104 (2025-12-06): Places, Pages, And Packets

    The Bonus Drop tries to make up for two lost Drops this week and discusses three main topics: the underutilization of LOC DNS records for geographical coordinates due to privacy concerns, the Gitmal tool designed for self-hosting Git repositories with visually appealing outputs, and a new IETF draft proposal for allocating the IPv6 block 44::/16…

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  • Drop #737 (2025-11-25): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses the intersection of typography and AI, featuring the Gregory Grotesk typeface, characterized by its versatility and clarity. It also highlights Monotype’s Human Types project, exploring designers’ collaborations with AI. Additionally, the ~new CSS line-height unit enhances web typography, resolving spacing issues for cleaner layouts, emphasizing simplicity and effectiveness.

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  • Drop #736 (2025-11-24): In Living Color

    Today’s color-full Drop covers Color.js, a revolutionary JavaScript color library that excels in advanced color operations, offering accurate gamut mapping and ΔE calculations across many color spaces. It also showcases Color Palette Pro, a tool that simplifies color selection with intuitive palette generation, and introduces Super Coloring which provides engaging adult coloring pages (for printing…

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  • Drop #734 (2025-11-20): Fast And Powerful

    Today’s Drop discusses three “fast & powerful” tools: hl, hk, and MPD. hl is a command-line tool for formatting and exploring logs quickly, hk is a high-performance Git hook manager that runs tasks in parallel to enhance Git workflows, and MPD is a music player daemon providing seamless audio management across multiple clients.

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  • Drop #732 (2025-11-17): Reliable Sources

    Today’s Drop explores the evolving landscape of coding tools and resources, particularly emphasizing AI’s impact on the decline of small npm packages like blob-util. It introduces Brimstone, a Rust-based JavaScript engine aiming for high ECMAScript compliance, and discusses optimizing DNS lookups to enhance website performance, recommending strategies like dns-prefetch and preconnect.

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  • Bonus Drop #103 (2025-11-15): Fingerprints, Fabrications, And Foolproof Family Support

    The Weekend Bonus Drop discusses a variety of security and privacy topics, notably a new ja4-mcp server for JA4 fingerprint analysis, critiquing AI’s role in cyber espionage operations, and presenting Tailscale’s effective use of Raspberry Pi for remote family network access.

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  • Bonus Drop #102 (2025-11-09): It Always Feels Like Someone Is Watching Me

    The (depressing) Weekend Bonus Drop discusses modern surveillance practices, highlighting a new tool that removes tracking links from Google Docs exports and showcases the Surveillance Watch map, which reveals the surveillance industry’s global scope. It also critiques how gaming companies collect player data under the guise of achievements, normalizing surveillance in entertainment.

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  • Drop #719 (2025-10-17): Free-Form Friday

    Today’s Drop covers Gephi Lite, a user-friendly, browser-based tool for network visualization, allowing exploration of graphs on mobile devices without installation. It also digs a little into Isochrones which represent areas reachable within specified travel times, accounting for real-world conditions. And, it links to the prompts in The Obsidian AI tagger which enhances note-taking through…

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