hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Bonus Drop #44 (2024-04-07): Combined Make-Up Bonus + WPE Drop

    Today’s Bonus + WPE Drop is cull of ctags crunchy goodness. Universal ctags is a tool that generates an index file for programming languages to enable easy navigation within text editors. Geany, an IDE with extensive functionality, showcases the usage of ctags. Quickwit, an alternative tool, allows users to retrieve code-level information from projects using…

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  • Bonus Drop #36 (2023-12-16): Knowl-Edge Drop

    The content discusses setting up self-hosted “edge” functions using Deno and Supabase FOSS. It explains the concept of “Serverless Edge” and provides examples of creating random data and placeholder images as edge services. The goal is to inspire and simplify the process of setting up edge microservices.

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  • Drop #432 (2024-03-25): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    In today’s Daily Drop, we have the regular Monday grab bag of resources. We highlight Fedica, a platform for posting to Mastodon and Bluesky, the Navy’s Solar Eclipse Computer, and Vanilla Breeze, a tool for converting Tailwind-classed HTML tags to semantic CSS.

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  • Bonus Drop #46 (2024-03-24): Method To The Madness

    Today’s Drop discusses 3 resources, madonctl, csvlens, and DuckDB, and how they can be combined for data FUN. madonctl is a Mastodon client for the terminal, csvlens is a CLI tool for viewing CSV files, and DuckDB is a powerful database system that is quite magical.

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  • Drop #423 (2024-03-07): Happy ThursdAI

    Today’s Drop has 3 main topics: the introduction of the CLI tool Dripgrep, a debate on AI understanding, and the impact of generative AI on creative industries. Dripgrep combines ripgrep with ChatGPT for experimental use. Robert Wright challenges skepticism about AI understanding, noting that large language models exhibit elements of understanding. And, Ethan Marcotte examines…

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  • Drop #430 (2024-03-01): Just Another Drop

    The latest Drop features Zed, a Rust-based editor aiming to redefine developer expectations. Deno introduces JSR, a modern package registry supporting ESM and TypeScript, potentially unifying the JavaScript community. Bunscape challenges traditional web infrastructure by using DNS records, offering enhanced privacy and decentralization. Each project presents innovative approaches to development and web browsing.

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  • Drop #419 (2024-02-12): Runnin’ down the Avenue

    Bluesky, an exclusive social platform, lifted its invite barrier, resulting in a surge of 856,000 new users in one day, bringing the total to 4 million in three months. The platform has made efforts to support actual federation and foster a community feel. Additionally, it offers revamped documentation and tools for interaction. Feed management options…

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  • Bonus Drop #39 (2024-02-05): Perplexing Throughline Arcs

    Rabbit R1 (Privacy); Stract (Search); Arc’s Dystopian? (Future) Today’s Bonus Drop is also Monday’s regular Drop as one of the clan had a bit of a serious health scare at the start of the weekend, and it drained all mental compute resources. (In other news, I’m still fighting with Substack + Stripe + WordPress…the non-technical…

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  • Bonus Drop #38 (2024-01-29): Think Different

    BrowserEngineKit; Perplexity Everywhere All At Once Twas $SPOUSE’s 🎂 weekend, hence the tardiness of this Drop (and, it’s going to all readers, as I’m still fighting with Substack over how to actually get refunds into paid subscriber’s hands…it’s been a bear). Today’s Bonus Drop is all about some major, new “alternate choices” that have the…

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