hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • 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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  • 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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