hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Bonus Drop #55 (2024-07-07): Untangling The Web 🕸️

    The weekend Bonus Drop features SigmaOS, an alternative browser with similar goals Arc has, but using WebKit. Additionally, a new query language “get” for web data extraction is introduced, and a CORS proxy “corsproxy.io” is mentioned, with some example usage.

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  • Drop #505 (2024-07-25): Toss Up Thursday

    Today’s Drop discusses Zed remote development/editing, now available for all users, a Go module and CLI tool for Open Graph tags, and Itsy Gitsy, a Rust-tool that generates static websites from Git repositories with customizable templates for various output formats.

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  • Drop #504 (2024-07-24): Sometimes You Feel Like A 🥜

    There was not going to be a Drop today, but something I found was just too bonkers cool to not talk about today.

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  • Bonus Drop #54 (2024-07-21): Rusty POSIX

    Today’s weekend Bonus edition ofthe Drop covers the “posixutils-rs” project, which aims to port the suite of core POSIX-compliant command line utilities to Rust, ensuring safety, minimal dependencies, and conformity to the POSIX standards.

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  • Drop #502 (2024-07-19): Fun? Friday

    Today’s (late) Drop includes discussions on terminal colors, Google’s URL shortener discontinuation, authenticity in AI-driven content, and a new heat stress measurement called ‘stickiness’.

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  • Drop #501 (2024-07-18): Toss-Up Thursday

    Today’s Drop discusses the limitations of bar charts, introduces “tbsp,” a domain-specific language for working with syntax trees, and “shfmt”/”sh”, a shell parser with Bash/POSIX shell support.

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  • Drop #500 (2024-07-16): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Typography-centric edition of the Drop includes details about “Typeset in the Future,” a website and book delving into the typography of science fiction films. It also introduces “Wordmark,” a tool for visualizing and comparing fonts, and explores the rich history of ligatures from ancient scripts to modern digital fonts.

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  • Drop #498 (2024-07-101): HTTP Toolbox Companions

    It’s a 🕸️🕷️-focused Drop, today, with two tools (well, one tool and one tool/library/ecosystem) for slurping content up (responsibly!), and one TUI for helping craft perfect APIs

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  • Drop #497 (2024-07-10): Picture Perfect

    Toda’s Drop features three image processing tools/microservices to consider: trimage for lossless compression of PNG and JPG files, rimage for modern image format support and fine-grained quality control, and imaginary for fast Go-based image manipulation via CLI or microservice with robust access controls. Each tool has its unique features and can be a valuable addition…

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  • Drop #495 (2024-07-08): Monday Afternoon Grab Bag

    Today’s potpourri Drop includes the evolution of text abbreviations (that ends in a weather surprise!), a new-ish color palette for accessible UI design, and the benefits of using low-tech developer tools.

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