hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #709 (2025-09-12): Keeping It Super Simple

    The Friday Drop is all about reducing cognitive load & keeping things simple. It showcases incplot, a terminal plotting tool for visualizing structured data, highlights 3 classic Unix utilities, & links to a minimalist guide to Linux commands.

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  • Drop #708 (2025-09-11): Toss-Up Thursday

    More is less, in today’s Drop since it’s most-ly featuring pagers, SQL tutorials, and a bonkers number of drop-in CSS themes to make you looks like a CSS, SQL, and terminal genius.

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  • Bonus Drop #97 (2025-09-07): Bridging, Building & Browsing

    The Bonus Drop discusses the transition from Inoreader to FreshRSS, highlighting RSS-Bridge as a tool to convert websites into RSS feeds. It explores using SmolLM3 for named-entity recognition, and reviews Flow, a Chromium-based browser considered as a potential alternative to Arc after its acquisition by Atlassian.

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  • Drop #705 (2025-09-05): If It Walks Like A 🦆…

    Today’s 🦆 Drop showcases DuckDB’s capabilities for processing NGINX logs and integrating with Observable Notebooks 2.0 for interactive SQL querying. It also introduces the Textplot extension for real-time visualizations in #DuckDB SQL queries.

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  • Drop #704 (2025-09-04): Toss Up Thursday

    This unplanned anti-“AI” themed Drop covers: FreshRSS, a powerful self-hosted RSS aggregator; Compromise, a JavaScript NLP library for practical text analysis; and “Clankers Die on Christmas,” a satirical take on artificial intelligence.

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  • Bonus Drop #96 (2025-09-01): Labor-free Edition

    Today’s Bonus Drop looks at resources aimed at reducing labor: Lorem++ API for text and object generation, Zola for fast static site creation using TOML and Tera templates, and Symbols for quick symbol lookup.

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  • Drop #702 (2025-08-29): Archival Edition

    Today’s Drop emphasizes the significance of preserving independent copies of vital information resources like Wikipedia, especially amidst increasing political pressures. It highlights tools and initiatives such as Kiwix for offline access, the Antifa Torrent Server for government data, and open community efforts to safeguard weather data, enhancing data accessibility and preservation.

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  • Bonus Drop #95 (2025-08-24): Vibe-less Coding; Vibe-ful Checking

    The weekend Bonus Drop emphasizes the importance of security for vibe or vibe-less personal web apps, highlighting key strategies such as SSRF protection, rate limiting, robust CSRF tokens, & more. It also provides a plethora of prompts to help you infuse security into your vibe-coded creations.

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  • Drop #697 (2025-08-21): Editor-ial Edition

    Today’s Drop explores 3 distinct text editing perspectives: Zedless prioritizes privacy & community ownership by forking the Zed editor, Neovim serves static content efficiently through a Lua plugin leveraging its async capabilities, and MCP Text Editor Server offers line-based editing with secure operations.

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  • Drop #695 (2025-08-18): Monday Afternoon Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop features Overtype, a lightweight markdown editor, focuses on user-friendly design and minimal size. It further showcases SystemD Service Hardening which provides methods to enhance security for services. And concludes with a GH Migration script to automate moving GitHub repositories to Forgejo, supporting various configurations and strategies.

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