hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

Baseline; Svelte Desktop; Things Go Better With AI? Greetings, Programs. Your friendly neighborhood hrbrmstr is in a bit of a DoS bind this week. Monday is a travel day to the heart of corruption in the U.S. (a.k.a. the D.C. area, since that description could befit numerous regions) for a two-day $WORK offsite. Thursday and…

Intel One Mono; Gosh I Gotta Work On That Acronym; Chomsky’s Downfall Happy Mater’s Day to all who celebrate! Today, we let you put your newfound design skills to work, introduce you to some projects created by a very clever human, and leave you with a thought-provoking defense of LLMs that may have even caused…

Design Like No One’s Watching At some level, we are all designers. We create and disseminate “content” (a terrible word), hoping folks will care and engage. As I’ve been noting more fervently this year, we are also going to be driven more towards the browser as a target for our creative efforts; and, we are…

Code Search Guide; hound; searchcode; Bonus: Your New Personal jq Library Programming note: TIL that the Deno TUI library I’m using for the Weatherflow app I mentioned yesterday does not re-paint the entire screen on field updates. This made the already janky TUI even more janky in the browser. Apologies to the ~20ish folks who…

seashells; Blogs Are Really Fun; CheerpJ I’m not sure Tim Berners-Lee truly envisioned where we’d be right now when it comes to what can be done with a modern web browser. No longer just a mere windowed slave to Times New Roman text and cat pictures, browsers are nigh complete, mini-operating systems. Today, we’re going…

basE91; smu; Web Environment Integrity Thankfully, there are no (known) security holes in any of the resources in today’s Drop, though I will wax opinionated about whether you can truly trust the intentions espoused in the third section. basE91 Standards are great, until they’re not. What I mean by that is that humans ultimately control…

massCode (🚨); CDN ESMs; privateGPT Programming note: During the research phase for the weekend Bonus Drop, I managed to find a pretty gnarly information disclosure security hole in a popular snippets manager. I feel compelled to let loose that paywalled article today in the event any reader (or someone you know) uses massCode. Since Bonus…

A Proper Snippets Manager; Zoom Zoom Zoom; My $DEITY: The VIS! Greetings, programs. Today’s Drop is not all about managing code snippets. But, that earworm of a tagline got stuck in my head, which means I was obligated to transfer it to your noggins. We talked a bit about snippets last week, but a GitHub-gist-like…

Litestream; MinIO; Pure [ba]sh bible Well, it turns out your Drop herder did, indeed, overreach this week. Who knew two hours of driving, IRL conference presenting + hob-knobbing, attending a National Honor Society induction for offpring #4 and cooking dinner all on the same day would be so tiring for someone who is still enduring…

nonymous (bore); pastel; volta These Drops have been listing a tad bit to javascript port, of late. As noted multiple times, this is due to the encroaching seismic shift in how, when, and where “compute”, “app”, and “data science” tasks will be performed. This does not mean that your friendly neighborhood hrbrmstr has forgotten his…