hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #489 (2024-06-28): Format Friday

    Code formatting is essential in software development to maintain consistency and readability across projects. Today’s Drop explores single- and multi-purpose formatters like jqfmt for jq programs, Unibeautify for over 20 languages, and dprint for multiple language support using Rust-based WASM modules. These tools offer granular control and automation for consistent code styling.

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  • Drop #488 (2024-06-27): “No, Thanks. I’m Just Browsing.”

    Today’s Drop covers a variety of browser-related topics. It discusses alternatives to console.log, the impact of AI on browsers, and [re-]introduces Ladybird, a new HTML/CSS/JS-rendering engine.

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  • Drop #486 (2024-06-24): Monday Afternoon Grab Bag

    New tools included in today’s grab bag Drop are: qq, a CLI transcoder, and Gotenberg, a document format converter. Additionally, “Anonymous Letters” offers a service for your more criminal endeavours.

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  • Bonus Drop #50 (2024-06-23): Something For Everyone

    The weekend Bonus Drop offers something for everyone, including Reasonable Colors for accessible, high-contrast color combinations, RoosterJS for rich text editing, and insight into extreme UV index conditions. Learn about the UV Index’s origins and global standardization, and the availability of mobile apps to track UV radiation levels for public health safety.

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  • Drop #485 (2024-06-21): Potential Weekend Distractions

    Today’s Drop features 3 JS-adjacent resources. The es-toolkit is a JS utility library with performance + size advantages; intro.js is a lightweight library for creating product tours, & kuma is a self-hosted site monitoring tool with various features.

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  • Drop #484 (2024-06-20): Data All The Way Down

    Today’s Drop is all “data infrastructure”-focused and covers a new event streaming platform in Go, a high-performance query engine in Rust, and Haskell middleware for integrating websockets with PostgreSQL.

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  • Drop #477 (2024-05-31): Fast Friday

    Today’s condensed , theme-less edition of he Drop, features a Brewfile Throwdown for sharing Brewfiles, the CyberSecTools directory with ~2,400 cybersecurity tools, and the exploration of Bluesky and Threads for knowledge-sharing and community engagement by Newsmast.

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  • Drop #474 (2024-05-23): Holiday D20 Edition

    A extra random Drop is out today featuring edge functions for AI bot blocking, “abort bars”, NextDNS in context, and updates to Zed & llamafile.

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  • Drop #473 (2024-05-23): What The Shell?!

    Today’s Drop discusses three tools for, er, “modernizing” shell scripting. Amber and Bish are languages that compile into Bash, offering modern features and a more intuitive syntax. Meanwhile, bash_tls is a pure Bash script that provides minimal TLS 1.2 client implementation. This is def a “use at your own peril” Drop.

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  • Drop #472 (2024-05-22): Happy ThursdAI

    Today’s AI-focused edition of the Drop we cover the need to defend against AI misuse. First, we introduce the concept of ai.txt for controlling data mining. We then look at strategies for blocking malicious AI bots and take a look at what we might be able to do w/r/t poisoning AI models. These strategies aim…

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