hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

Gum; Termbin/Fiche; ShareDrop I truly enjoy it when things “just work”. It’s a big reason I also truly dislike Python (how many package managers do y’all have to solve the “pip install” nightmare, now, 50?). And, why there will never be the “year of the linux desktop”. (And, also why I grow increasingly frustrated with…

Releasing a Bonus Drop instead of a new WPE as a bout of paronychia in my left 👍🏽 has made typing and cogitating nigh impossible. Honestly, getting the more polished cousin of the server used in the original Bonus Drop to work isn’t “hard”. So, I made a branch (link below) of the source repo…

⚡️ Fast Rust-Based Index/Search Framework, CLI & Server + WPE Extra Credit If you’ve taken up the challenge of this week’s WPE, it’d be 🤙🏼 if you could, y’know, actually use that data you’ve worked hard to create from all those podcasts. If not, then you very likely have some need to quickly find other…

Turn Podcasts Into An Information Repository (Yes, Moar 🔊 RSS Work Today) Rust GUIs will have to wait for longer nights. Despite how cool Iced (see yesterday’s Drop) is, a “from scratch” full-on Rust project just wouldn’t be something most folks could reasonably tackle in a weekend. It can wait until we have some darker…

ss; SniffNet; sshuttle We dive deep into the network layer, today, with three vastly different networking utilities/apps that are each filled with their own flavor of crunchy packet goodness. NOTE: I’d encourage folks to not skip the TL;DR section, since it provides a cautionary tale regarding LLM/GPT models you might be deploying or using for…

MDN Front-End Developer Curriculum; Things You Forgot; CSS Patterns Faithful followers of the Drop are, by now, used to my rantings about how we’re all web developers. Most readers generate some content, on the daily, that is read in a browser context. That content contains HTML, CSS and — very likely — JavaScript, even if it…

The Ultimate Typography Cheat Sheet; Alphabettes; The Font Memory Game Tuesday’s are quickly becoming one of my fav days due to this reader requested weekly theme edition of The Drop. Having the privilege and opportunity to revisit scads of my typography bookmarks is just like a walk down memory lane and revisiting some old mates.…

Hylo; Wing; Wipeout! Today we take a look at two up-and-coming programming languages that are getting just enough buzz to force me to draw y’all’s attention to it. If you’d rather just skip to the third section for a bit of fun, I will take no offense. TL;DR This is an AI-generated summary of today’s…

Architecting Browsers; Forging Protocols; Doing Nothing I should have known trying to crank out last weekend’s missed Bonus Drop the week everyone at work went to Hacker Summer Camp was not going to end well. I’ll have to get a Knowledge Drop out this week to make up for it. However, today we have two…

It’s Go Time While some schools in the U.S. have started back up, it’s still technically vacation season, and we’re going to continue the easygoing WPE theme for a few more weeks. I’m unusually excited about the Go 1.21 release, so we’ll give y’all a starter Golang project to riff on this weekend. Since this…