hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

WAT Samples; Spinning Diagrams; Your New JavaScript Playground Suh, Drop squad?!1 I still owe you an extra Bonus, and we’ll see how it goes today, but I had to shunt the weekend Bonus Drop to Sunday b/c of all the 🌍 Day stuff going on yesterday. Today, we go from low (level) to high as…

Choose Your Own Adventure: Step Out Of Our Comfort Zones , Or Play In The Sandbox We have a vast planet, with diverse ecosystems and cultures, and polar opposite seasonal differences. I am, for better or worse, a denizen of the Northern Hemisphere; specifically North America; and, more specifically, the northeast portion of the “United”…

Taming VS Code Telemetry; Sidelining Sidewalk; Your (Mostly) Global Opt Out Easy Button The rate at which we’re losing autonomy over our data, our compute platforms (which includes all your personal glowing rectangles), and even the bandwidth we pay for is bonkers. To my EU readers, I’m sorry to inform you that GDPR is just…

C23; Node 20; Svelte, TypeScript, And The Looming War For Your Dev-Attention Being a Daily Drop reader means you do your best (with or without the aid of my blatherings) to keep up with what’s happening in the tech world. That’s hard work. We are constantly bombarded with new technologies, frameworks, languages, runtimes, apps, and…

The GridMaster’s Glyphs Report; There’s Nothing Comic About Dyslexia As I note in the first of, yes, only two sections today, I let myself get hit by the curveball that is a new “Technical Report” by one of my all-time fav RStats heroes. This caused me to change-up what I had previously in store for…

On (More Like “Off”) Substack; Thanks For The Code!; We Fight For The Users! Tis an “ethics”-heavy edition of the Drop, today, but I guarantee it closes with something super-fun! On (More Like “Off”) Substack Most sane folks do not spend their waking hours keeping up with the machinations of technology. So, if you missed…

Handy Browser Tools; Self-Hosted Snippets; Telemetry-Free Local Grammarz & Spullingz Checking Programming note: Substack ruined what was a good week (Notes is pretty neat) for them by “pulling a Cloudflare/Twitter” and doubling down on supporting hate speech and bullying by being abject cowards. I’ve seen who funds and runs Substack, so this is not really…

Reactivity: Engage! Dearest Reader, I trust this Drop finds you in good health and high spirits! I am pleased to inform you that we will be continuing our weekly focus on JavaScript with a brief and achievable introduction to reactivity in the witchcraft known as RxJS. However, due to the code-focused nature of this witchcraft…

👀 (VS Code) Observable Notebooks; ➕ MDN (Plus); 📵 Take A Walk On The Offline Side Today is an infrequent travel day for your friendly neighborhood, hrbrmstr. The internet was on 🔥 again yesterday, so I had less time to devote to Drop prep than I normally do, which means I’m putting the finishing touches…

🛠️ Your Own, Private, D3 Workshop; 🛑 Stop Making Terrible Python Plots; 🔎 A TUI IDE For HTTP Requests Hey true believers! In yesterday’s Drop, I kind of made a big deal out of the fact that javascript and WASM are eating the planet. So, it seemed only fitting to get stuck in that web…