hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #508 (2024-07-31): Wild, Wild, Wednesday

    The Drop is caught up to Wed! Trail of Bits conducted a security audit of Homebrew, uncovering some concerns including executable code vulnerabilities and CI/CD issues. We look at the highlights in the Drop and shunt readers to the completel report for more details. I expanded my Mastodon-thread of the initial features of Apple Intelligence…

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  • Drop #495 (2024-07-08): Monday Afternoon Grab Bag

    Today’s potpourri Drop includes the evolution of text abbreviations (that ends in a weather surprise!), a new-ish color palette for accessible UI design, and the benefits of using low-tech developer tools.

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  • Drop #492 (2024-07-03): It’s Always DNS

    Today’s Drop takes a look at — RFC 9606 which introduces the RESINFO DNS resource record type, — doggo – a modern command-line DNS client written in Go, and — Microsoft’s Zero Trust DNS (ZTDNS) Framework.

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  • Drop #485 (2024-06-21): Potential Weekend Distractions

    Today’s Drop features 3 JS-adjacent resources. The es-toolkit is a JS utility library with performance + size advantages; intro.js is a lightweight library for creating product tours, & kuma is a self-hosted site monitoring tool with various features.

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  • Drop #484 (2024-06-20): Data All The Way Down

    Today’s Drop is all “data infrastructure”-focused and covers a new event streaming platform in Go, a high-performance query engine in Rust, and Haskell middleware for integrating websockets with PostgreSQL.

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  • Drop #482 (2024-06-17): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    The Drop is back from holiday and starting the week with a grab bag of resources, including a deep-dive into Apple’s new AI ecosystem, a *blazing* fast Rust HTML-to-Markdown converter, and something spiffyfor the cartographers out there to drool over.

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  • Drop #477 (2024-05-31): Fast Friday

    Today’s condensed , theme-less edition of he Drop, features a Brewfile Throwdown for sharing Brewfiles, the CyberSecTools directory with ~2,400 cybersecurity tools, and the exploration of Bluesky and Threads for knowledge-sharing and community engagement by Newsmast.

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  • Drop #467 (2024-05-15): Wonkish Wednesday

    Today’s proper Drop covers how Trail of Bits collaborates with Alpha-Omega and OpenSSF to enhance Homebrew’s security with cryptographically verifiable attestation; it also looks at Nimble and Lance V2 as Parquet replacements, and points to a sober piece on “The Heat Death of the Internet”.

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  • Drop #465 (2024-05-13): Monday Mid-Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop covers JSContact, RFC 9562, and the impact of AI on our ears and the livelihoods of folks who used to make coin from their voices.

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  • Bonus Drop #48 (2024-05-12): Long Form Links

    The Weekend Drop covers three main topics: the challenges of intuitive user interfaces, the history of the hamburger menu icon, and the importance of concise and accessible alt-text for images. Each presents valuable insights into user experience design, user interface history, and web accessibility concerns. The articles provide comprehensive information for designers and developers to…

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