hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #605 (2025-02-14): Free-For-All Friday

    Today’s Drop sports Cockpit, a user-friendly web-based server management tool; an in-depth look at HTML whitespace challenges and solutions; and the latest DuckDB 1.2.0 release featuring improved performance, enhanced CSV/Parquet handling, and new SQL features.

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  • Drop #604 (2025-02-13): Toss-Up Thursday

    Today’s Drop features treefmt (a multi-language source formatter orchestrator; a framework for evaluating technological progress (w/emphasis on AI); and, introducesCLI tool for selectively downloading GitHub repository content.

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  • Drop #602 (2025-02-03): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s missed flight-enabled Drop talks Kata Containers, a secure container runtime using lightweight VMs for enhanced workload isolation; LosslessCut, a cross-platform, FFmpeg-based video editing tool that allows lossless trimming and manipulation of media files; and a CMU seminar series addressing SQL optimization and potential alternatives.

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  • Drop #601 (2025-01-30): Toss-Up Thursday

    Today’s Drop contains (heh) a section on alternatives to Docker, discusses JSON-e for embedding context in JSON objects and features Mercator Extreme, a unique map projection for visualizing geography.

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  • Bonus Drop #73 (2025-01-25): Crawl • Slice • Learn

    The Weekend Bonus Drop introduces three innovative resources: Lightpanda, a fast, efficient browser automation tool; Yek, a Rust-based solution for processing codebases for LLMs; and ManKier, which transforms Unix man pages into interactive HTML5 documentation. Each tool enhances efficiency and accessibility in their respective domains.

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  • Drop #598 (2025-01-24): Development Distractions

    Today’s Drop features Fixi.js—a compact hypermedia control framework beneficial for inline editing, search interfaces, and lazy loading with modern JavaScript features. There’s a new CSS attr() function in town, and we peek at how use it to work with all CSS properties for dynamic styles. And, the CSS Flexbox Playground let us to experiment with…

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  • Drop #596 (2025-01-22): Wacky Wensday

    Today’s mixed-up Drop showcases two tools related to data manipulation and monitoring, and a puzzle!

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  • Drop #593 (2025-01-16): WASSSSMM UP?!

    Today’s Drop focuses on WebAssembly (WASM) resources: “Water,” a web-based fluid simulation using SIMD support; wasmCloud, enabling portable application modules for distributed systems; and TinyWeb, a minimal Rust framework for client-side web apps that directly integrates with JavaScript.

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  • Drop #592 (2025-01-15): In Living Color

    Today’s colorful drop features Flexoki, a color scheme for coding and prose; the “Definitive Ranking of Pantone Colors of the Year”, and. Colorify Rocks’ tools for discovering harmonious color combinations, emphasizing accessibility through various free resources.

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  • Drop #590 (2025-01-13): A SQL Trio

    Today’s Drop looks at three database tools: libSQL, Beekeeper Studio, and Outerbase Studio. libSQL is an SQLite fork enabling network operations. Beekeeper is a freemium SQL editor w/multiple db support. Outerbase is a browser-based management tool w/user-friendly features for various SQL databases, enhancing database interaction and management.

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