hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #455 (2024-04-22): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop discusses three spiffy tools: Duckling, neko, and tv. Duckling is a data management app for viewing and querying multiple data sources. Neko is a remote desktop tool for private web browsing and collaborative projects, while tv is a command-line tool for pretty-printing CSV files. Each tool offers unique features for data enthusiasts and…

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  • Drop #441 (2024-04-11): Thursday Three Letter Trio

    pet; tuc; nip Today, we cover three (well, four, really) tools/services that are each 3-letters in length, do one thing, and do it bonkers well. TL;DR (This is an AI-generated summary of today’s Drop.) pet If you’re even remotely like me (in the following aspect), you likely execute repetitive commands or scripts on a fairly…

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  • Drop #412 (2024-01-31): HTTP Status Symbols

    The post discusses the fun and creativity surrounding HTTP status codes. It mentions a project mapping status codes to telephone area codes, a tube map of status codes, and collections of cat and dog pictures associated with status codes. It also provides resources for creating cartographic projects and accessing the tube map.

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  • Drop #384 (2023-12-06): Alternate "Bins"

    httpbun; postman-echo; go-httpbin Tis a crazy week in hrbr-land, so a very light, but focused, Drop, today, showcasing three decent alternatives to the OG HTTPbin. For those new to HTTPbin… HTTPBin is a remarkable HTTP request and response service, written in Python, that provides a simple yet powerful tool for testing and debugging HTTP-related services.…

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  • Drop #383 (2023-12-05): Typography Tuesday

    Turye, uf2, and UxnVarvara; Glyphr Studio; Featured Foundry: Velvetyne I’m potentially riffing from today’s TT Drop for Friday’s WPE. You’ll see why in the first section. Also, unlike the code-heavier Drops, this one should work well with Substack’s text-to-audio player, though I can’t wait to hear how it pronounces some of the words. TL;DR This…

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  • Drop #382 (2023-12-04): A HARd Day's Night

    Record; Sanitize; Playback Okta is a widely-used identity and access management (IAM) company that provides a combined software+service that helps companies manage and secure user authentication into modern applications, and for developers to build identity controls into applications, website web services, and devices. Earlier this year, attackers gained access to Okta’s customer support management system…

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  • Bonus Drop #34 (2023-12-03): Cautionary Tales

    Where Am I?; Set It And Forget It?; What The Shell? I switch between Bash and Zsh quite a bit as I traipse across work and personal projects. So, for today’s Bonus Drop, I thought I’d cover some of the more interesting “gotchas” and/or areas to be aware of. Even if you don’t move between…

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  • Drop #381 (2023-12-01): Weekend Project Edition

    Build Your Own Searchable Vectorized Knowledge Database: No AI Degree Required I realize this is the start of Advent of Code, so some folks may not need or even want the distraction of yet-another weekend project. You should always prioritize rest and recovery over “crank out one more thing”. I gave myself the freedom to…

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  • Drop #380 (2023-11-30): Cities Always Teem With Evil And Decay

    Fantasy Map Generator; Deorum; Armoria “Let’s give it a good shake and SEE WHAT FALLS OUT!!” After this 380 Drop-day journey together (416, total, with the Bonus Drops), one might come to the errant conclusion that your friendly neighborhood hrbrmstr has no time for silly things like games. While it is true that I prioritize…

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  • Drop #379 (2023-11-29): Data Three Ways

    git commit folders; Grist; Flyscrape Today we look at how to get easy access to old, committed data in git repos, discover my replacement for EtherCalc, and try out a new way to scrape data from the web. TL;DR This is an AI-generated summary of today’s Drop. Now I’m just “the author” to Perplexity. o_O…

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