hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #533 (2024-09-20): Fast & Furious Friday

    Today’s Drop covers the HTTP QUERY method, a proposed addition to enhance complex read operations in web APIs, allowing query parameters in the request body instead of URLs. This improves flexibility, caching, and automatic retries. Additionally, tools like hr and reachable enhance terminal readability and domain status checking, respectively.

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  • Drop #531 (2024-09-17): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop takes another peek into the world of font creation, explores the historical intersection of typography and automation, and showcases a unique (free) display font that challenges our visual perception.

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  • Drop #530 (2024-09-16): The Incredible Shrinking Web

    Size matters in today’s Drop! The internet’s bandwidth and reliability in remote areas will always be a concern, prompting the need for size and loading optimizations. Techniques like ThumbHash, BlurHash, and “Potato WebP” efficiently handle images for quick loading and limited bandwidth. cssnano optimizes CSS files for production, and Squoosh offers on-device image optimization without…

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  • Bonus Drop #61 (2024-09-08): Transcrbe, Transform, and Translate

    Bonus Drop #61 covers yt-transcribe, a macOS script for easy YouTube transcript extraction, xan, a powerful Rust-based CSV processor, and the benefits of using Go instead of Bash for scripting, including portability, reliability, and strong typing for efficient and error-free scripts.

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  • Drop #524 (2024-09-02): clang-format Two Ways

    Today’s holiday Drop is — as promised — all about clang-foramt. This is a pretty powerful tool for automatic code formatting in C, C++, and Objective-C (and more). It ensures consistent style, saves time, and reduces conflicts. With customizable options and integrations, it supports various languages and IDEs. A WebAssembly version allows running it in…

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  • Drop #522 (2024-08-28): Wacky Wednesday

    Wednesday’s Drop had three diverse resources folks can explore. ES2024 introduces new JavaScript features. EditorConfig maintains consistent coding styles across different editors using a simple .editorconfig file. And, see which classic Linux command-line tools are now considered obsolete.

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  • Drop #521 (2024-08-27): Typography Tuesday

    The Typography Tuesday edition of the Drop focuses on two monospaced fonts and a handy tool for making stylized unicode alphanumeric-esque glyphs (just be careful when/how you use it).

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  • Drop #520 (2024-08-26): Shockingly Simple

    Today’s Drop covers using justfiles to create internal CLIs, introduces wcurl as a wrapper around curl for simplified file downloads, and explores Git’s “reuse recorded resolution” feature.

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  • Drop #519 (2024-08-22): Cache Me If You Can

    Today’s Drop discusses creating a lightweight internet research setup by integrating SearXNG, Jina, and a small Go program to provide a caching layer for search results. SearXNG is a self-hostable metasearch engine, while Jina’s Reader endpoint converts URLs to Markdown. Through a combined CLI, we can preview search results in the terminal and access cached…

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  • Bonus Drop #58 (2024-08-18): One-Thing Well

    The weekend Bonus Drop features 3 projects, sfeed, gen-license, and gitnx. Each excel at specific functions. sfeed offers command-line tools for processing RSS and Atom feeds, gen-license generates software licenses through a simple command, and gitnr creates .gitignore files using templates from various sources.

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