hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #571 (2024-12-13): Frantic Friday

    Today’s Drop discusses the BlogFlock platform, which enhances RSS feeds through communal curation; the impact of generative AI on hiring practices, making resumes less reliable; and Matt Might’s shell scripts that improve clarity in writing by detecting passive voice and weasel words.

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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 #560 (2024-11-22): Quack • Post • Code

    Today’s Drop features DuckDB’s API integration with Hono.js for SQL queries, turning RSS feeds into automated Bluesky posts, and resources for learning Deno 2.x.

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  • Drop #559 (2024-11-21): CLI Time

    Today’s Drop features three tools: Ripunzip, a Rust-based parallel unzipper that starts decompression during downloads; Pipe Viewer (pv), a terminal utility for monitoring Unix pipeline data flow with real-time stats; and Joker, a minimalist daemon management tool providing basic process control without complex configurations, ideal for minimal environments.

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  • Drop #556 (2024-11-18): The Long And Winding Web

    Today’s Drop explores browser rendering, Electron’s challenges, and the rise of the “small Internet.” The topics emphasize a detailed breakdown of browser operations, propose a new extension system for Electron applications, and highlight a movement prioritizing genuine online content over corporate interests, reflecting user autonomy and creativity.

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  • Drop #555 (2024-11-15): Finally Friday

    Today’s Drop covers a CLI tool to work with Bluesky Starter Packs to enhance user onboarding by personalizing curated account lists; Libravatar, a federated alternative to Gravatar, which ensures consistent avatars across platforms; and shpool which offers lightweight shell session maintenance, persisting connections even when SSH drops.

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  • Drop #552 (2024-11-08): One. Step. Forward.

    Today’s unexpected Drop emphasizes online safety, privacy, and resilience amidst growing threats from tech companies and governments. It starts a conversation about secure communication tools like Signal and offers resources for reducing online privacy exposures.

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  • Drop #550 (2024-11-05): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses Google’s initiatives to enhance typography through projects like Oxidize and Fontations, focusing on migrating font manipulation to Rust for better performance and memory safety. It also covers type revival for film and TV, emphasizing the importance of recreating vintage typefaces to achieve historical accuracy while accommodating modern production…

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  • Drop #542 (2024-10-16): Happy WebsDay

    Today’s 🕸️ web-focused Drop discusses Apple’s proposal on reducing TLS certificate lifespans to 45 days, shows how to extend the Manifest V2 extension lifespan in Chromium-based browsers, and introduces the Gosub project, which is a new Rust-based web browser engine.

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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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