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  • Drop #425 (2024-02-21): Wednesday Grab Bag

    The Daily Drop featured Phase, an open-source, encrypted platform for managing environment variables; LLRT, an experimental JavaScript runtime by AWS for serverless apps; and Waybackpack, a tool to download Wayback Machine archives. Phase offers CLI for importing secrets and role-based access control, LLRT boasts faster startup and lower costs, and Waybackpack helps scrape old resources…

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  • Bonus Drop #41 (2024-02-18): Singularly Super Simple Tools

    “Glow” is a lightweight syntax highlighter that works independently and uses minimal CSS variables. “Color” introduces Adobe Color’s theme and gradient extractor tools for creating harmonized palettes from images. “List.js” adds search, sort, and filter functionalities to HTML elements without heavy dependencies, demonstrated in a vanilla JS example.

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  • Drop #422 (2024-02-14): Weekend Project Edition

    The Daily Drop was delayed due to long COVID exhaustion but the distraction led to the discovery of Observable Framework. This open-source system allows for creating data apps, dashboards, and reports using JavaScript and any backend language. The Framework supports continuous deployment on GitHub and provides features like live preview and automatic data loading for…

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  • Drop #421 (2024-02-14): Reach Out And Track/Touch/Collect Something

    Today’s edition of The Daily Drop covers data-centric topics, including Open Measures’ fight against online extremism, Webhook.Site’s testing capabilities for webhooks and HTTP requests, and Wget’s WARC file creation for archiving web content. These tools offer ways to gather and analyze data, test webhooks, and create web archives for research and investigation purposes.

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  • Drop #419 (2024-02-12): Runnin’ down the Avenue

    Bluesky, an exclusive social platform, lifted its invite barrier, resulting in a surge of 856,000 new users in one day, bringing the total to 4 million in three months. The platform has made efforts to support actual federation and foster a community feel. Additionally, it offers revamped documentation and tools for interaction. Feed management options…

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  • Bonus Drop #40 (2024-02-12): What The Shell?

    The blog post introduces “Nish”, a new shell with advanced features, such as tab completion and syntax highlighting. It also covers “await”, a C-based tool for running parallel commands, and “slugify”, a bash script for renaming files. These tools cater to different shell-related needs, from advanced shell operations to file renaming.

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  • Drop #417 (2024-02-09): Make Up Exam

    Pkl; Cue; KISS Two Drops today! This one, which makes up for the time-crunch-skipped one from earlier in the week, and the WPE. TL;DR This is an AI-generated summary of today’s edition. Pkl As if we didn’t already have enough configuration “languages” to make life miserable across diverse projects, Apple enters the fray with Pkl. This…

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  • Drop #416 (2024-02-08): When The 🌕 Hits Your Eye In A Cool CLI

    astral; geodate; sun Ephemerides, at their core, are astronomical almanacs that detail the positions of celestial bodies — such as planets, moons, and stars — in the sky at given times. These positions are typically presented in tabular form, making them invaluable tools for astronomers, navigators, and even astrologers. The term itself originates from Greek…

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  • Drop #414 (2024-02-02): Weekend Project Edition

    The post discusses the performance inequality gap in web development, emphasizing the impact on user experience and the need for more inclusive approaches. It proposes analyzing content size and composition, considering device and network conditions, and establishing formal performance budgets. Browser developer tools can help simulate different devices and network conditions for optimization.

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  • Drop #410 (2024-01-29): Your Real-time App Stack

    Fir; Alpine.js; Gofir Along with making some special dinners and desserts for $SPOUSE this weekend, I finally managed to hack on a project that’s been on the TODO for quite some time. Today’s Drop covers that, but it first introduces the components it was built with. No “TL;DR” as it doesn’t really make sense for…

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