hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

Times New Bastard; Andada Pro; Modern Fluid Typography The Drop decided to take Monday off for a few reasons. First, it was Juneteenth here in the former Colonies. Late last week I learned of an open access (i.e., free and unlimited digital access) Drop from Springer: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History and…

One-Million Bytes (With A Catch) It’s been a minute since we’ve had a WPE, so we’re going to ease back into the swing of things with something achievable by anyone. Yes, anyone. Y’all know I’m passionate about helping to ensure nobody is left behind in the “you really gotta know HTML/CSS/JS” future we’re [headed] in.…

Where Did the/my [Software Development] Long Tails Go? Meet NVIDIA’s AI Red Team; Scrollytelling Book Bans; Bash Quotes The best-laid plans of mice and hrbrmstrs often go awry, and have done so in plenty today. We’ll (mostly) have to leave the teased pure-tech stuff to tomorrow’s WPE. Where Did the/my [Software Development] Long Tails Go?…

PassGPT; Guidelines for the Organization of Fully Online Meetings; Text Editor Data Structures; DEI (Language) In Cyber I’ll be peppering Drops this and next week with bits I’m catching up on from being AFK last week. A bit of said spice is in the first section on a novel password guesser and generator based on…

FontReach; GPU Text Rendering Techniques I & II; A Visual Masterclass Of Striking Typography The Drop fan fav topic is back with some free stuff for you to grab, a technical deep-dive into modern font rendering techniques, and some typographical design inspiration for your next project. FontReach As we have discussed in many-a-Drop, picking a…

BLE; Pax GPT; WTHeck Is Happening?; Moar Perplexity Programming Note: The weather $DEITIES were on our side last week as the early Summer Down East Maine climate turned out to be better than expected. Your friendly neighborhood hrbrmstr is rested up and raring to get back into the swing of things. He also completely lost…

LLM Hacker’s Handbook; Quirky QRs; WebVM Apologies to expectant WPE readers and Bonus Drop collectors. This past week has been an especially gnarly long covid week with both the cardio and noggin’ fog rearing their ugly, combined heads throughout most of the week. As such, Thu-Fri was dedicated solely to completing work projects ahead of…

gist-reveal; bash blog; GitHoot Back in the day, Mike Bostock figured out a cool way to abuse GitHub’s, er, “generosity” to host D3 scripts and associated resources as self-documenting visualizations. While the launch of ObservableHQ caused the eventual death of those bl.ocks, there are other ways to also abuse this free service from Microsoft to…

JSONata; jj; DuckDB JSON Today, we cover a fav Drop meta-topic (JSON) that also includes three of my most favorite [data processing] things: XPath, two-letter CLI utilities, and DuckDB. Let’s dig in! JSONata JSONata (GH | NPM) is (yet-another) a lightweight, open-source query and transformation language for JSON data, inspired by the ‘location path’ semantics…

0xProto; Butterick’s Practical Typography; Mike Mai’s Typography Manual Methinks we shall continue the typographic Tuesday theme for as long as I have useful links (and, I have alot of links). If you are at all a “font nerd”, then you also likely have opinions when it comes to both fonts and typography in general. So,…