hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

The Biggest (Docker Image Size) Loser; Spying On Social URLs; Gita Happy Monday, Drop readers! July is half over, O_O! This year, summer speeding by (in the Northern Hemisphere) is kind of a good thing, since I’m somewhat tired of melting each time I leave the abode. Hopefully, today’s resources will help keep y’all company as…

Jailbreaking ChatGPT 4’s Code Interpreter; The Blob Toy; Freeloading On Cloud Services; AWS Docs GPT Programming note: Elder health issues continue to disrupt schedules, hence no WPE Friday and a different Bonus Drop, today, than originally intended. Thankfully, it looks like things are progressing in a positive direction. I’ve been using the insatiable appetite for…

Blorp; Webbkoll; What’s It Worth? Today, we focus on you and your online privacy, with tools to help you protect yourself in-browser and on websites (that you visit or build), plus one that shows just how much you are worth (to attackers). Blorp This section is short, as Blorp is an incredibly focused browser extension.…

DIY SVG Sparklines 101; Get Woke; [Co]Lima I’m pressing the “easy button” for today’s Drop — choosing the “multi-threaded” grab bag — since we’re headed to NYC for the NY R conference, today. Drop keyboard time has been subsumed by talk prep time, though I’ve admittedly also been goofing off building stuff in the AT…

Viewer Discretion Is Advised; enFont Terrible; Netflix For Fonts Typography’s back on the menu today! The first section takes a deep dive on a topic you likely never think about (or use). The bottom two both show some fun/cool things you can do with variable type fonts. Bonus Drop subscribers will be getting a deep…

Fingerprinting TLS Clients & Servers; Fingerprinting Web Content; Fingerprinting HTTP Server Headers Unlike Paul Simon’s lyrical assertion, fingerprints across many contexts are far from the same. Today, we look at digital fingerprints across some diverse contexts, but with similar purposes to help cybersecurity researchers identify potentially bad things. Even if you’re not in cybersecurity, I…

atproto/bsky Deep Dive; Ethernet Is Old; Stock Dystopia Let me begin with a quick update to note that the situation which required a hiatus the other week has had a near-term positive resolution. It’s elder healthcare related, which can be a rough subject for some folks, so I’ll exclude the details from here and re-point…

Monitoring For “Pharmacy Deserts” Earlier this week, I dropped some R code to go along with scraping the Walgreens “hidden” API. It turns out that there’s a spiffy, free API that will let you acquire a list of stores and store details. So, today’s WPE is all about helping you sharpen your data journalist skills…

Brief 🎵♬ On 🧵🪡; Cinder; Getting Up In Bluesky’s Bidnez Today is a “⅔ soapbox, ⅓ tech” Drop, so feel encouraged to just read the second section if my opines just aren’t your cup of tea, today. Brief 🎵♬ On 🧵🪡 Unless you’re in a cave up in northwestern Maine (which means you aren’t reading…

HODOR; Mind The [SSH] Gap; 2023 Top 25 CWE List I took advantage of an alliterative tagline opportunity to talk about “security”, a term I am loath to use. I prefer the more verbose “safety and resilience”, and today’s sections provide resources that discuss said topics in various modes. HODOR I’m not a fan of…