hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Bonus Drop #81 (2025-04-06): Bonus²

    This weekend Bonus Drop discusses DuckDB’s integration with dbt for effective data transformation, enhancing workflows with features like spatial functions and reverse ETL. It also highlights shell command efficiency improvement tools and introduces Ollamacommit for generating Git commit messages locally, improving privacy and workflow for developers.

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  • Drop #633 (2025-04-04): Friday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s theme-less Drop showcases Hollama, a user-friendly web interface for LLMs; Tactile Vega-Lite, which enhances accessibility in data visualization for blind users; and Pussh, a parallel SSH tool for managing commands across multiple servers.

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  • 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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