hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

The weekend bonus drop highlights include a playable Pong game in a favicon, an HTML document encoded in a favicon, and zeroserve, a minimal static file server using eBPF for configuration. These projects explore innovative uses of favicons and enhance server functionality while raising security implications and practical applications for the future.

Today’s Drop discusses various useful SSH features and tips to improve automation and efficiency when using SSH. Key highlights include using BatchMode to avoid hanging connections, running local shell functions on remote hosts, maintaining sessions with screen/tmux, and conditional config management. These methods enhance user productivity and error handling in SSH operations.

The Bonus Drop discusses three typography-related topics: Camel Mono, an innovative font design that enhances readability of camelCase identifiers; Adrian Roselli’s argument against setting a base font size in CSS to respect user preferences; and Matteo Bertin’s Borges Square Pixel, a typeface that visually embodies labyrinths, challenging traditional readability.

The weekend Bonus Drop focuses on q3cpma’s repository, which contains 85 meticulously crafted shell scripts designed for portability across multiple systems. Notable scripts include fqueue, a file-based queue, and attrfilter, a line colorizer using awk. The collection emphasizes best practices in shell scripting, showcasing techniques for efficiency and usability while demonstrating the power of POSIX…

Nordstjernen; The Attack On Competence; quien New $WORK onboarding and new project immersion is slowing down to a more human pace and we’re done-done with fam holidays for a bit, so let’s try to get the Drops back into daily form. Today we’ve got a real new browser alternative, a somewhat distressing piece on “AI”,…

Hey folks! Just a quick note to ACK the unexpected, extended hiatus from Drops for a bit. Prep for our talk at [un]prompted the other week took a ton of time away, then I had to sit next to a dude with the (legit) plague next to me for 6.24 hours to SFO, deal with…

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.

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…