hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #566 (2024-12-05): Prompts, Two Ways

    Today’s Drop discusses three tools: Plop, Lit Starter Kit, and Elia. Plop is a micro-generator framework for creating boilerplate code efficiently. The Lit Starter Kit simplifies web component development with the Lit framework, while Elia is a terminal app for interacting with large language models, ensuring a user-friendly experience.

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  • Bonus Drop #67 (2024-12-01): How Is It December Already?

    Today’s Drop presents three useful tools: Qlty, a Rust-based multi-language code quality tool that simplifies static analysis and formatting; untls, a Golang CLI tool enabling seamless TCP and TLS connections; and Censeye, developed by Censys Research to help identify and analyze hosts with similar characteristics to specified targets.

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  • Drop #561 (2024-11-25): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop sports a Bluesky follower export tool for CSV files, the Shebanger CLI tool that reconfigures shell scripts into multiple shebang files, and Onefetch, a Rust-based CLI for offline Git analytics.

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  • Drop #560 (2024-11-22): Quack • Post • Code

    Today’s Drop features DuckDB’s API integration with Hono.js for SQL queries, turning RSS feeds into automated Bluesky posts, and resources for learning Deno 2.x.

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  • Drop #559 (2024-11-21): CLI Time

    Today’s Drop features three tools: Ripunzip, a Rust-based parallel unzipper that starts decompression during downloads; Pipe Viewer (pv), a terminal utility for monitoring Unix pipeline data flow with real-time stats; and Joker, a minimalist daemon management tool providing basic process control without complex configurations, ideal for minimal environments.

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  • Drop #558 (2024-11-20): Pipes • PDS Files • Proxy

    Today’s Drop discusses three data-centric tools: Vector, a high-performance observability data pipeline enhancing data collection and routing; ATFile, a shell script for storing and retrieving blobs in ATproto/PDS infrastructure; and Betwixt, a web debugging proxy for effective traffic analysis outside browsers using a familiar interface.

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  • Drop #554 (2024-11-14): What The Shell?

    Today’s Drop discusses 3 shell-related resources: ‘up,’ a utility for efficient directory navigation in Bash/Zsh; ‘BATS,’ a Bash testing framework that isolates test execution; and ‘cmdx,’ a Golang module for streamlined command-line operations with error handling.

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  • Drop #552 (2024-11-08): One. Step. Forward.

    Today’s unexpected Drop emphasizes online safety, privacy, and resilience amidst growing threats from tech companies and governments. It starts a conversation about secure communication tools like Signal and offers resources for reducing online privacy exposures.

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  • Drop #550 (2024-11-05): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses Google’s initiatives to enhance typography through projects like Oxidize and Fontations, focusing on migrating font manipulation to Rust for better performance and memory safety. It also covers type revival for film and TV, emphasizing the importance of recreating vintage typefaces to achieve historical accuracy while accommodating modern production…

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  • Bonus Drop #66 (2024-11-03): Eye Sea Ewe

    Today’s Drop talks about ICU (International Components for Unicode), whic is essential for Unicode support in software. The recent ICU 76 release improves character handling and formatting capabilities. Tools like opstr and go-icu-regex enhance string operations and regex handling, while Intl.NumberFormat in JavaScript simplifies numeric formatting across various styles and currencies, ensuring robust functionality.

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