hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • 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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  • Drop #606 (2025-02-17): Compress, Assess & Progress

    Today’s Drop covers two tools and one tip: Ouch is a versatile command-line compression utility for multiple formats; Stot is a human-friendly alternative to the stat command for file system information; and comprehensive workplace guidance for 2025 focusing on performance reviews, documentation, and effective manager relationships.

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  • Drop #581 (2024-12-30): Meow-nday

    Today’s 🐱 Drop features kitty, a high-performance, cross-platform terminal emulator utilizing GPU acceleration and SIMD for efficient operations; and, the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) which allows embedding a web browser in applications; and, finally awrit, which leverages capabilities from these technologies for web rendering in terminals.

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  • Drop #579 (2024-12-19): Favicons wRapped

    Today’s Drop helps us wrap up a year of browsing datat and provides methods to access browsing history from SQLite databases in #RStats to make a more visual view of all the time we wasted staring at glowing rectangles.

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