hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • 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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  • Drop #547 (2024-10-31): Toss-Up Thursday

    Today’s Drop highlights Bluesky’s CLI tool, goat, enabling robust interaction with ATproto networks, and Sampler, which visualizes shell command outputs effectively. The 2024 CSS Survey shows a critical shift to “New CSS,” emphasizing container queries, the :has() selector, and subgrids, streamlining web development and enhancing layout capabilities.

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  • Drop #545 (2024-10-28): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    The Drop returns after a hiatus, featuring `gw` for continuous deployment, Blacklight Query for bulk website privacy scans, and YAAT for accessing ASCII values.

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  • Drop #544 (2024-10-21): If It Walks Like A 🦆

    Today’s Drop covers the DuckDB HTTP Server Extension, a project that transforms DuckDB instances into HTTP OLAP API servers. Additionally, it covers “DuckDB in Action,” a practical DuckDB guide, and introduces “masto.sh,” a tool for backing up Mastodon posts in #DuckDB.

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  • Drop #541 (2024-10-15): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of The Drop highlights FontTools, a Python library for font manipulation, and OpenType Sanitizer (OTS), which enhances web font security. It also features Anna Giedryś, a graphic designer known for typefaces available on Google Fonts, including Signika and Rasa.

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  • Bonus Drop #65 (2024-10-05): CIDR Serendipity

    The weekend Bonus Drop discusses 3 tools: cidrex, a command-line utility for expanding IP addresses and CIDR ranges; ferment, a recreation of cidrex in C that focuses on smaller binary size; and libxo, a library for generating structured output in various formats.

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  • Drop #539 (2024-10-03): Toss-Up Thursday

    Today’s Drop highlights three main topics: Pipet, a Golang tool for web scraping; “Need For Speed”, featuring resources like speedtest-rs and LibreSpeed for measuring internet speed; and techniques for poisoning AI scrapers to protect content.

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  • Drop #537 (2024-09-30): It’s About Time

    Today’s Drop covers three resources centered on time: “Time as a Grid,” a visual representation of time using grids; Greptime, a database for managing time series data; and Primitive, an image processing tool that uses geometric shapes.

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  • Drop #537 (2024-09-27): Special Delivery Part 1

    Today’s Drop covers three utilities from the addr.tools suite of lightweight tools to assist with various networking tasks. Key tools include ip.addr.tools for creating domain names from IP addresses, info.addr.tools for accessing DNS and registration data, and myip.addr.tools for retrieving public IP addresses.

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