hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

Kvrocks; Memgraph; dbdb If you were asking yourself, “Why did hrbrmstr say he was going to publish a Drop on a holiday?”, I can answer with: “I’ll do anything for an opportunistic pun”. Since it’s Memorial Day in the 🇺🇸, we’ll cover some database resources, but keep it tight and focused, so you can carry…

How To Create Your Own ChatGPT Plugin; Kagi’s FastGPT/Enhanced Perplexity; DarkBERT It’s been an “AI” kind of week at work, so I’ll close out the week with a selection of LLM/GPT items that I’ve been looking at/using of late. How To Create Your Own ChatGPT Plugin Despite at least my continued ethical concerns over how…

How To Start A Go Project In 2023; Nonlinear Dot Plots; Dropbox HTTP/3 Deep Dive Programming note: Your humble hrbrmstr is actually taking a break from Friday-to-Monday, so no WPE and no weekend Bonus Drop. #2.1 is actually coming to pampa’s abode! Also: I’ll be scheduling a M-F drops for the first week of June…

Climate Empathy Typography; Font Pairing Through Deep Learning; Google Fonts Tools The previous “Typography Tuesday” was somewhat of a “hit” with y’all, so I shall heed the immortal words of George Jessel, and re-up said theme today. An ever-increasing number of sites are using the system font stack to attain the coveted four hundos. This…

update-notifier; DIUN; webhook As has been well-spoken by Alex Kamal, ace pilot of the Rocinante in “Nemesis Games” (one of my fav titles in The Expanse novels): “Things change, and they don’t change back.” While many of us likely experience notification overload well-before noon on any given day, there are certain classes of notifications (or,…

Quality; Quantity; Responsiveness Your friendly neighbourhood hrbrmstr is safe and sound back at the Maine compound after a rather horrible, rain-filled drive up the U.S. east coast. As such, I’m taking another “quick hit” liberty with this Bonus Drop, but only in the sense that we’ll cover a single topic in some depth vs three…

Cache Me If You Can Despite your Drop herder still being in “quick hits” mode, we can’t go into a weekend without an [optional] project to tackle. This week, it’s all about reducing costs, saving time, and keeping data you need as close as possible via caching. While we’re going to be focused on HTTP…

🚨 [ChatGPT] Cross Plugin Request Forgery; 🎙️ Voice Assistance Without The Creepiness; ❊ Windmill S’up, Droppers1?! We have a fun mix of busted AI, private AI, and old-school automation today. If you do nothing else, please read the first section and — if motivated — let your mates know about the big security hole in…

openplf; outdated*; monorepo tools Relying on legacy dependencies is very, very bad. So, today we help you do that in a few different ways. openplf The Open Product Lifecycle Framework (OPLF) (GH) is an initiative aimed at standardizing the way End-of-Life (EOL) and End-of-Support (EOS) information is exchanged within the software and hardware industries. Covering…

the html review; is it vega-lite or ggplot2? Cody Managed to crank out a bit more commentary than expected for today! the html review The HTML Reeview is an annual web-based literary journal that publishes literature on the web. It features poetry, fiction, non-fiction, graphic storytelling, and experiments that highlight the web as a medium.…