hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

Post It! Today, we build a small CLI utility to display Bluesky posts, given a Bluesky post URL. BEFORE YOU CLICK AWAY (since not everyone has or wants access to Bluesky) 👉🏼 you do not need a Bluesky account to work on this week’s WPE. While said account is usually required to read Bluesky posts…

Oklachroma; Huemint; SpecularCSS Today’s Drop is hyper-focused on color. It’s also the start of an experiment! To try to make these editions as useful as possible to the widest audience, I’m introducing a new top-level section that contains an AI-generated, super-short summary and primary resource link of each section. This is primarily for the “just…

Jupyter Notebook 7.0; RATH / PyGWalker / GWalkR / Kanaries; vizGPT Longtime readers may, indeed, wind up thinking the question posed in today’s tagline after reading this most unusual Wednesday edition. I can promise y’all that I am not being held captive by a band of rogue Pythonistas or being threatened by OpenAI zealots. A…

The Terrible Secret of OpenType Glyph Substitution; What’s The Best Font?; Resist[fonts] Are [Far From] Useless! We’re back in typographic wonk-land for today’s font featurette. But, we won’t leave you in un-kerned despair. After we discuss parts of the underbelly of modern font stacks, we’ll lighten the discourse a bit and, hopefully, leave you in…

Let’s Plot; Laws of UX; Logo Scale Yes, I 100% did make up an alliterative tagline theme to enable me to shoehorn in three entirely different topics, today. But, I’ve been meaning to get each of these in and decided that perfect was indeed the enemy of good enough. Whether you like decent charts, ensuring…

Rusty Parquet; It’s All About That [Fast] Base[64]; Write! Some major things came up at $WORK this afternoon, so I’m afraid I need to lean on releasing a Bonus Drop vs. the regularly scheduled programming. A diverse array of topics is, once more, presented, today. Whether you’re interested in wrangling Parquet files at the command…

WebDev Chatbot Assistant CLI We’re still going to “keep it simple” for the weekend project, but how “simple” is 100% up to you. In yesterday’s Drop, we looked at the Mozilla Developer Network’s foray into “AI”. Keen-eyed readers might have suspected today’s Drop would have something to do with that, given the curl snippet I…

MDN Blog, Playground, And AI; WormGPT; Democratizing AI I’ve been trying to limit these dedicated AI sections to one per-month, so it’s about time for another installment. I did manage to sneak in a “build things” component in the first section, and the last section is an unusually hopeful one (for me). MDN Blog, Playground,…

Go Make Things; inlang; “No” Clubs; chota I received a very kind note from a reader/supporter who noted an appreciation for the JS/CSS/HTML/webdev content that makes a regular appearance on the Drop. So, today we will, again, focus squarely (you’ll cringe at my use of that word in a second) on building/creating things. Go Make…

Elstob; Commit; Dank We might as well make Typography Tuesday a permanent fixture of the Drop, since y’all do seem to like it and there is an endless supply of typography topics to talk about. Today is 100% focused on individual typefaces. Elstob Elstob is a modern variable typeface inspired by the Double Pica typeface…