hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #760 (2026-01-20): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop highlights two featured fonts and a creative book. Quablo is a versatile, minimalist sans-serif font ideal for data projects, while Runtti is a dynamic display typeface with angular characteristics. Additionally, “Alphabetical Playground” by Nigel Cottier is a 698-page exploration of letterforms, focusing on graphic experimentation and cultural recontextualization.

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  • Drop #759 (2026-01-19): Monday Afternoon Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop discusses the latest changes to daily drivers, focusing on Joplin Cloud for syncing and the introduction of sqawk, a Rust-based CLI for SQL querying on CSVs. It also highlights Shellbeats, a terminal music player for Linux, which now supports playlists and background downloads.

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  • Bonus Drop #107 (2026-01-11): AI Yai Yai

    The Bonus Drip discusses the emergence of “ghost libraries,” like whenwords, which enable “AI” to generate code based on specifications rather than traditional implementations. This raises concerns about contributor recognition, credit for intellectual work, and potential brittleness of these specs. It also highlights a looming copper supply crisis driven by increased demand for data centers…

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  • Drop #734 (2025-11-20): Fast And Powerful

    Today’s Drop discusses three “fast & powerful” tools: hl, hk, and MPD. hl is a command-line tool for formatting and exploring logs quickly, hk is a high-performance Git hook manager that runs tasks in parallel to enhance Git workflows, and MPD is a music player daemon providing seamless audio management across multiple clients.

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  • Drop #730 (2025-11-11): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s Drop introduces three unique typefaces: Myrna, which enhances code readability by equalizing symbols and letters; Tongari Display, inspired by Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai; and Avería, generated by averaging various fonts on the creator’s computer. Each font showcases innovative design principles.

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  • Drop #720 (2025-10-20): Back In The Highlight Again

    Today’s Drop looks at recent updates in log & code visualization tools, highlighting (heh) Logalize for its customizable log colorization, and ch for its simple word highlighting in live streams. It also introduces Lexical Differential Highlighting, which improves code readability in some programming languages by using distinct colors for visually similar tokens, enhancing cognitive processing.

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  • Drop #715 (2025-10-10): Web-Slinging Friday

    Today’s webby Drop highlights the HTML element’s purpose, the Journal of Web Engineering’s efforts to establish web development standards, and the risks of old SSL certificates through BygoneSSL, which can lead to various cybersecurity threats.

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  • Drop #658 (2025-05-28): CLI Thursday

    Today’s Drop introduces three command-line tools: Yazelix, sad, and angle-grinder. Yazelix integrates terminal-based development tools for efficient workflows; sad enables interactive file modifications with a preview-first approach for safety; and angle-grinder allows real-time log file analysis using a structured, pipeline-oriented method. Each tool enhances productivity in development.

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  • Drop #620 (2025-03-12): Welcome To Websday

    Today’s Drop covers the Speed Force infusion of TypeScript with many a caveat, introduces CSS Relative Colors for dynamic color generation directly in stylesheets, and check out the WebTUI project.

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  • Drop #616 (2025-03-06): Typography…Thursday?

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop looks at a project showcasing the VT220 terminal’s distinctive typeface. It also introduces Creative Fabrica’s not-ready-for-prime-time AI Font Generator, and features the graffiti-style MS Scratch font.

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