hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

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…

Micro; Peco; Grip A side project I’ve referenced a few times (but not provided much context on) involves alot of text files, so I’ve been at the CLI quite a bit and have had “text processing” at the forefront of daily noggin’ thoughts. So, today’s Drop features three text-focused tools that should be fun and…

[Blocking] GPTBot; Residential Proxy Harms; Cyber Trust Mark It’s “Hacker Summer Camp” week, so I’ll take this as an opportunity to dedicate a full Drop to cybersecurity content. TL;DR This is an AI-generated summary of today’s post. Today, I uploaded the Markdown copy of this post to claude.ai with the prompt “please provide a concise…

Aptos; Basic Kerning Text; The Grid NOTE: I totally forgot to do the “AI summary” thing yesterday, but did not do so today. This installment of Typography Tuesday gives a nod to Microsoft Office’s new default font, gives you a link to an excellent kerning aid, and showcases an online tool for nailing down a…

Nix; Devbox; Suggested Reading There are some big things in the first two sections, so we take a lighter approach for the third to avoid overwhelming folks. For Bonus Drop subscribers: you will most assuredly get an extra issue. The weekend was consumed by the wonder that is Down East Maine, and there was just…

Don’t Put Off Today We started off the week talking about the weather, and we’ll finish it by building a small CLI to retrieve a forecast — using tomrrow.io — for a given location. Remember: these summer (for us northern hemispherians) WPEs are designed to be super straightforward, so y’all can have some time to…

SQLite2REST; Soul; Feature-rich Postgres CRUD When prototyping a new app or data repository, it can be useful to have a basic CRUD REST API shell available that encapsulates network-based programmatic access to and operations on the data. Today we’ll look at two different ones that wrap SQLite databases and one that does the same for…

khoj; n8n; selfh.st It’s been a minute since we had a Drop focused on self-hosting things. We’ll fix that oversight today, with a look at two fun self-hosted apps and a place you can go to keep up with what’s happening in self-hosted land. TL;DR This is an AI summary of the post. Today I…

Shakespeare Serif; The Fitzpatrick Scale; The Making Of Grafista This edition is long enough that I shall refrain from waxing poetic in the intro. I will toss out that I’m super curious if anyone does get bitten by the urge to follow in the footsteps of the author of the resource in the first section.…

Weather For Energy Tracker; Tomorrow.io; The Eyewall I’m pretty sure most folks know I’m a big amateur weather nerd. So, today we cover three (well, five — mebbe six, really) resources I find pretty spiffy and useful when it comes to getting current/historical weather data and also keeping an eye on tropical storm activity. Obligatory R.E.M.…