hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Bonus Drop #80 (2025-03-30): Shameless

    The Weekend [Shameless] Bonus Drop showcases a spiffy accessible color palette generator, a project that will help turn the “news” into a research corpus, and some updates on various personal projects.

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  • Drop #630 (2025-03-28): Fool Around To Find Out Friday

    Today’s Drop discusses recent tools and experiments in document preparation and bookmarking. John Maxwell shares insights on Typst as a LaTeX alternative, highlighting its ease of use and integration with Pandoc. Additionally, Shaarli is introduced as a self-hosted bookmarking tool, while Shellfirm aids terminal command safety through verification prompts.

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  • Drop #629 (2025-03-27): Welcome To The Human Race

    Today’s Hurtsday Drop highlights tools focused on the AT Protocol, including Boat for identity and data management, Roomy for peer-to-peer group chats, and Treeverse for visualizing Bluesky threads.

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  • Drop #627 (2025-03-25): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop covers Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, introduces. Hyperglot, and showcases the Kyiv Type Foundry.

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  • Drop #621 (2025-03-14): If It Walks Like A…

    Today’s Drop discusses DuckDB version 1.2.1, which features a web-based UI for easier SQL query management and data exploration. It highlights the Netquack extension for URL analysis in SQL and introduces the PSQL extension, enabling a pipe operator for clearer, sequential data transformations.

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  • Drop #617 (2025-03-07): Themeless

    The Friday Drop highlights Xit, an experimental version control system built in Zig, and advocates for the use of text labels to improve user interface clarity. It also showcases a creative interpretation of the “Bad Apple” animation using SSH key randomart images.

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  • Drop #614 (2025-02-28): Friday Morning Grab Bag

    The Friday Drop discusses enhancing productivity through macOS tips, the introduction of SmallJS as a modern web development tool inspired by Smalltalk, and emphasizes the significance of digital preservation tools

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  • Drop #611 (2025-02-24): Status Symbols

    Today’s Drop reviews three monitoring solutions: Static Status, a Bash script for generating status pages; Vigil, a Rust-based microservice monitor with flexible notifications; and cState, a Hugo-based static site generator with incident management.

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  • Drop #609 (2025-02-20): The “Not Everything Is Horrible In 2025” Drop

    Today’s un-horrible Drop covers a cool Typst package to use Markdown for content and introduces Typst’s new preliminary support for HTML output. It closes with some Datawrapper and #RStats crunchy goodness.

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  • Drop #608 (2025-02-19): Someone To Watch Over You[r Files]

    Watch out for today’s Drop on filesystem monitors! Chokidar 4.0 significantly updates the Node.js file watcher; Caretaker is a Rust-based tool for monitoring files with TOML config; and, Systemd.path units offer built-in filesystem monitoring.

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