hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #777 (2026-02-27): It’s Always DNS

    It’s all about DNS in today’s Drop! Geoff Huston developed ipasn.net, a user-friendly DNS-based IP-to-ASN lookup service that avoids complex query formatting. Hickory DNS is a Rust-native implementation, addresses memory safety issues in traditional DNS stacks, with future production plans by Let’s Encrypt. And Miek Gieben’s revised Go DNS library boasts significant performance enhancements, optimizing…

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  • Bonus Drop #111 (2026-02-22): Screech • Spruce Up • Sandbox

    The weekend Bonus Drop covers three key topics: an AWK script simulating a Bell 103 modem for data exfiltration, the revamped Go 1.26 ‘go fix’ tool enhancing code modernization, and Scraping Sandbox, an open-source web scraping platform offering a playground for developers to practice with synthetic e-commerce data in a “modern” site.

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  • Drop #774 (2026-02-19): Secured, Saved, Savvied, and Sublimed

    Today’s theme-less Drop discusses 4 topics: dotenvx, an enhanced .env management tool that improves security and multi-environment support; factbook.json, a project preserving the CIA World Factbook as structured JSON; and alpinestuff, a resource for learning Alpine.JS. Kanso Ink is also mentioned, offering terminal theme configurations.

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  • Bonus Drop #110 (2026-02-14): Talk About The Weather

    Today’s Drop discusses three tools: Kaku, a macOS WezTerm fork enhancing ergonomics; Pake, a Tauri tool creating cross-platform desktop apps from URLs; and Fair Weather, a vanilla JS weather app scoring activities based on conditions.

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  • Drop #771 (2026-02-12): System Of a [Mark]Down

    Today’s Drop introduces md-browse, a markdown-first web browser that converts web pages to clean markdown for better readability. It utilizes electrobun (also covered today) for lightweight cross-platform app building and Turndown (also covered today!) for HTML to markdown conversion.

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  • Drop #769 (2026-02-09): Mostly Mail And Meetings

    Today’s Drop discusses two tools in the Google Workspace ecosystem: gog, a CLI that simplifies API access for Gmail and other services + msgvault, a local Gmail archiver enabling offline analysis using DuckDB; It also covers duckdb-oast, a community extension for analyzing OAST domains.

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  • Drop #764 (2026-01-29): Thursday Three-fer

    Today’s Drop discusses three useful programming resources: arf, a modern Rust-based #RStats REPL with SQLite command history and helpful features; go-typescript, a Go package enabling high-performance TypeScript execution without CGO dependencies; and an article on ten essential Bash tips for developers.

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  • Drop #762 (2026-01-23): If It Talks Like A…

    This second DuckDB-focused Drop of the week discusses three more/new DuckDB Community extensions: duck_tails, which enables version-controlled data workflows from git repositories; crawler, which provides web scraping tools compliant with robots.txt; and urlpattern, designed for parsing and matching URLs. Each extension enhances data handling capabilities within DuckDB.

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  • Drop #756 (2026-01-09): Fool Around And Find Out Friday

    Today’s Drop covers some good news about Google reinstating JPEG XL support in Chromium after pressure from developers and market changes. It also sports a link to an interactive guide on terminal concepts that simplifies complex ideas for users. Meanwhile, it further shunts you to Cooper Quintin’s EFF piece which outlines counter-surveillance tools to combat…

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  • Drop #753 (2026-01-05): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop discusses advancements in scrollytelling using CSS rather than JavaScript, the CSVW/FDP standards for enhancing CSV files with structured metadata, and Craig Silverman’s new OSINT media venture, Indicator, aimed at teaching verification skills amid rising disinformation.

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