hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

🎆🎇; Bawr; Cardo A brief update on my “Pharmacy Deserts” section from yesterday. It turns out Walgreens has a nice, free, legit API for store lookups, so I’ll most certainly be making Friday’s WPE about this. We’ll keep it short today, as it is a holiday for most 🇺🇸 readers. 🎆🎇 The “Fireworks” font does…

SQLite Package Manager; Cage Fight: Clickhouse-local vs. DuckDB; Pharmacy Deserts I’m fairly certain I’ve aged a month over the past week, and appreciate the messages of support folks have sent our way. Interested folks can follow along my spouse’s daily chronicle of what’s going on (I should note that it’s elder healthcare related, in the…

A Few Commentary-Free Resources & A Note About An Unscheduled Temporary Drop Hiatus Greetings and felicitations on this somewhat fine Thursday! Due to a very distressing and also very unexpected octogenarian critical family emergency on my spouse’s side of the family, I’ll be in transit most of Thursday, then navigating 🏥 corridors both Thursday and…

Civilizational Bootstrap; The Knowledge; Collapse OS While I’m as optimistic as a fraction of the skeptical general population may be, it sure is easier than ever to envision us stumbling into a catastrophic scenario where we have to start all over again, at least from a technology standpoint. So, “what if” we had to do…

Tiff; Roughly Awesome; The Practice Of Type The fan-fav topic is back, again, with one resource that will help you eyeball differences between fonts, stand out from other awesome crowds, and practically level up your typography skills. Keeping with the theme of the week, they’re highly focused resources with just enough expository to (hopefully) get…

Self-Defense BaseCamp; Kill Siri; Optery We’ve covered privacy before (1; 2; 3; 4), and we do so, again, today! I’ve referenced three resources that cover different “privacy paradigms” (though section one and two somewhat overlap). Drops this week will be shorter than usual as I’m squirreled away in my nation’s capital at an official multi-day…

Back to [linux] virtualization & container fundamentals; Getting serious about virtualization & CI on [Apple Silicon] macOS; Virtualization isn’t just for CPU’s I am tabling my “massive Bonus post” for the time being since I took on a personal challenge to weave four things together into a cool resource + commentary post, and I’m obsessing…

Enter The Magic🪄-Wormhole🌀 Programming note: I did it yet again and scheduled this for Saturday AM when I meant to schedule it for Friday. The Substack author UX has definitely gotten better over time, but it’s still not great. Anyway…on to the show! Earlier this week, I noticed that the infamous @b0rk had only recently…

AI’s Unsung Heroes; Tortured PhrAIses; A Breakneck TimelAIne Today’s Drop delves into the unseen human labor in AI data annotation, introduces peculiar practices to fool AI systems, and takes us through a rapidly evolving timeline of generative AI. It kind of ended up being a more raw and sobering look into AI’s development journey and…

We’re Only Humaaans, After All; Lorem Ipsum Über Alles; Illustriously Lost And Found The Drop veers into “design” land, on occasion, usually focusing on the principles and practice of how to craft and compose a given creation with deliberate thought and clarity. While there is certainly good reason to focus on theory, in practice we…