hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

All Aboard The 🐼 Express 🚅 The Drop’s WPEs are still in “light mode” since I am 100% sure it’s still summer, given that it’s been a billion °F in Maine this past week (#4 even has a “heat day” — vs. a “snow day” — from high school today). Looking back across the 357 Drops,…

TL;Please Read; txtai; txt2vis; txt2comic I wasn’t originally going to re-up “ThursdAI” today, but you’ll see why I did in the non-abbreviated summary section. Along with the three AI resources, I feel compelled to mention that jq — the incredibly handy JSON processor — had its first major release in a very long time, this…

Mastering curl; repgrep; rsstail We’re back at the CLI, today, with two resources riffing from Monday’s Drop, and one that shows the power of opens source development. TL;DR This is an AI-generated summary of today’s Drop. (See Drop #327 — if I link to it, Substack will put a giant preview in here and nobody…

If You’re 👀 This It’s Day 100; Bad 🍎; The 👁️ing Game The Typography Tuesdays will continue until morale improves, and then it will continue on! TL;DR This is an AI-generated summary of today’s Drop. (See Drop #327 — if I link to it, Substack will put a giant preview in here and nobody wants…

Wget2 2.1; gitwatch; Collie Apologies to all for the unplanned Drop hiatus last week. It was an especially gnarly re-uppance of long covid symptoms, leaving me with little energy or sleep for the week, and needing to devote what little there was to fam & work. The week’s rest seems to have helped a tad,…

A look behind the OJS Plot curtain We’ve covered Observable Plot in previous Drops, but this one goes a bit deeper and lets you see the HTML/SVG under the covers, and shows how to work with it to add extra functionality not-yet-baked-into this awesome framework. Unfortunately, this is Substack, so no fancy “vis-embeds” or extra…

Soon May the Weather App Come There once was a coder who aimed to seeIf she should go out or stay home for tea.Her laptop’s lid went up, and her head arched downTo write some Weather App code. Soon may the Weather App comeTo bring us forecasts with curl, jq, and gumOne day, when the…

YouPlot; Slides; VHS We’re back at the CLI today, focusing our gaze upon three tools to help you craft engaging narratives from the terminal (or just get stuff done). TL;DR This is an AI-generated summary of today’s Drop. I used the same prompt and service as yesterday. Zero editing required YouPlot: A Ruby-based command-line tool…

polars-cli; SQLPage; Stepping Into The LZone I had not intended to make today’s Drop a “SQL” edition, but I came across the first resource yesterday, and it’s super cool, so “best laid plans…” and all that. TL;DR This is an AI-generated summary of today’s Drop. Perplexity is still my fav assistant, and supports file uploads,…

Five Boxing Wizards; Creative Matters; If The Text Don’t Fit… I took our recurring theme into a slightly different direction, today, with two sections looking at some indirect but quite fundamental aspects of typesetting. TL;DR This is an AI-generated summary of today’s Drop. I went back to Anthropic’s Claude with a more explicit prompt: “There…