hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Bonus Drop #71 (2025-01-12): Need For Speed

    The weekend Bonus Drop discusses three tools for performance: MySpeed is a self-hosted internet connection monitor, DuckDB’s CSV processing was compared to coreutils, showing mixed results, and wrk is a Lua-scriptable HTTP benchmarking tool that efficiently simulates concurrent users and provides detailed metrics. Each tool offers distinct functionalities.

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  • Drop #589 (2025-01-10): In The Zone

    Today’s Drop features three resources from HTML.ZONE: WASM’d and webbed MarkItDown; Awesome Homelab, a curated directory for open-source applications in personal server experimentation; and Beauty.Codes, which allows customizable code screenshots and snippet management.

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  • Drop #587 (2025-01-07): (Tardy) Typography Tuesday

    Today’s (tardy) typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses kinetic typography, a technique that animates text to express ideas through motion, and the Fast Font typeface, which enhances reading speed by bolding word beginnings. It also introduces CSS’s text-wrap: balance property, improving visual text layouts by evenly distributing text across lines for better readability.

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  • Drop #586 (2025-01-06): Scroll Out The Barrel

    Today’s Drop is all about “scrolling”, just in very different contexts. Blogscroll is a curated directory of personal websites, the seekrit middle section is all about accessibility; and Scrollama is a JavaScript library for implementing scrollytelling features efficiently.

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  • Drop #585 (2025-01-03): Cruftless

    Today’s crufty/cruftless Drop: shows how to simplify recipes from blogs/videos and access to daily top news items; and also offers a detailed analysis of the state of USB-C[ruft].

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  • Drop #583 (2025-01-01): Wrapping Day

    The inaugural Drop of 2025 takes a look back at the Drops of 2024, my 2025+ daily drivers, and covers a new-to-me tool: Mise.

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  • Drop #578 (2024-12-18): Wonkish Wednesday

    Today’s very wonky Drop showcases 3 RFCs: HTTP Message Signatures enhance message integrity beyond TLS; RFC 9620 emphasizes designing protocols considering human rights; and RFC 9557 improves timestamp formats, allowing for rich metadata.

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  • Drop #572 (2024-12-16): Mixed-up Monday

    Today’s Drop introduces three distinct resources: MarkItDown, a Markdown conversion tool by (ugh) Microsoft; the “4 Colors Formula” for effective design using four color roles; and Hyperfine, a Rust-based benchmarking tool for performance measurement.

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  • Bonus Drop #68 (2024-12-08): All Strings ATTACHed (CLI Version)

    Today’s Bonus Drop discusses GoReleaser, an open-source tool designed to simplify cross-platform releases of Go projects, supporting various formats and integrations. It also introduces a project for a CLI version of the DuckDB Drop viewer.

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  • Drop #567 (2024-12-06): In Defense Of…

    Today’s Drop explores three distinct topics centered around safety. We take a deep look into DuckDB’s sophisticated query optimization capabilities, examine a new security tool for GitHub Actions workflows, and review the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s comprehensive guide to surveillance self-defense. Each section provides practical insights and actionable guidance for their respective domains.

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