hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Bonus Drop #88 (2025-06-28):

    The weekend Bonus Drop discusses two developer tools: MCPJam Inspector and mcp-cli, designed for testing and debugging Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Additionally, it explores a project on replicating Apple’s Liquid Glass effect in web browsers using SVG filters and Three.js, emphasizing creativity and ingenuity in overcoming browser limitations.

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  • Drop #672 (2025-06-27): If It Walks Like A…

    We have another 🦆-billed Drop today, featuring: DuckPlot — an open-source JavaScript library for generating charts from DuckDB with automatic SQL generation; The mcp-visualization-duckdb package, which allows users to create visualizations through natural language queries, bypassing SQL; & DuckDB-QuickJS which integrates a JavaScript engine for flexible data processing within SQL, enhancing DuckDB’s analytical capabilities.

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  • Drop #669 (2025-06-23): Monday Morning (Barely) Grab Bag

    The Monday Drop discusses 3 main topics: a Rube Goldberg-inspired data pipeline to archive X posts into #DuckDB, the #RStats package {fplot} for automating distribution plot creation in R, and an article from CSS-Tricks on advanced CSS color techniques, detailing color spaces and models for modern web development.

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  • Bonus Drop #87 (2025-06-22): Taking One For The Team

    The weekend Bonus Drop reviews Microsoft’s basic terminal text editor, edit, deemed unremarkable due to its lack of features. It highlights the Raycast Ollama extension, showcasing its capabilities for efficiently managing local and remote LLM models with advanced integrations. Finally, it introduces ttl.sh, an ephemeral Docker image registry for secure, temporary sharing without authentication.

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  • Drop #668 (2025-06-20): Stuff I Needed To Use This Week

    The Friday Drop introduces three useful utilities: Jsome enhances JSON readability in Node.js with features like color coding and pretty-printing; Detox renames files, making them safer for Unix systems by replacing problematic characters; and Rename is a versatile Perl tool for batch renaming files with extensive transformation options.

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  • Drop #667 (2025-06-19): Jora Making Me Crazy

    Today’s Drop is all aboutJora: a versatile search tool designed for efficient information retrieval and organization in data files. It supports easy query writing, handles errors gracefully, removes duplicates, and preserves original data. The ecosystem includes jora-cli for JSON processing, Discovery.js for visualization, and JsonDiscovery for browser-based exploration of JSON data.

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  • Drop #665 (2025-06-16): According To My Calculations…

    Today’s Drop covers three handy computational tools: calc, bcal, and pdd. Calc is an arbitrary precision calculator favoring exact rational arithmetic, bcal simplifies digital storage calculations, and pdd handles date and time computations, supporting various formats.

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  • Drop #664 (2025-06-12): A Cadre Of Clever CLIs

    Today’s CLI-focused Drop introduces 3 neaat utilities: sasqwatch enhances the Unix watch command with output history navigation and diff highlighting for better command monitoring. sizeof simplifies measuring sizes of strings or files in bytes, promoting LLM-assisted development. srgn leverages tree-sitter and regex for precise, language-aware code manipulation, aiding large-scale refactoring.

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  • Drop #663 (2025-06-11): Wednesday Morning Grab Bag

    The midweek Drop covers MarkText, a FOSS Markdown editor with real-time preview and advanced features; fingerprinting w/WASM, highlighting its precision + privacy implications; & Cerberus, a Caddy plugin that implements SHA-256 challenges to combat automated AI bot abuse, prioritizing service protection over user convenience.

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  • Drop #662 (2025-06-06): Fool Around And Find Out Friday

    The Friday Drop discusses three neat web development topics: SnapDOM, which efficiently captures HTML elements as images, Mavo, which enables folks to create reactive web applications using HTML attributes without JavaScript, and Nicola Rennie’s TARD3IS tutorial, which teaches SVG manipulation through a fun D3.js project.

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