hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

Stuck In The Middle With You Trying to keep it light this weekend, given that it’s another communal drinking holiday, at least in the United States; with folks in towns and cities across the land coming together to misappropriate yet-another culture as an excuse to dye things green and over-consume both food and (adult) beverages.…

Cloudflare Radar Beta Scanner; urlscan.io; I was going to try to shove three resources into today’s Drop, but I think you’ll be busy enough between both the ones I’ve included that you’ll quickly forget there are usually three. Scanning The Entire Internet (See, I jimmied in a third section anyway to set up the other…

Data Hierarchies; Why Color Theory Sucks; Pastel | pppalette We keep all knives sheathed in today’s Drop since we’ll need all available hands to pick up some tips on leveling up how we present information to those who consume it, design the context of those information displays, and take a (quick) look at two related…

lemmeknow; Recog; Teehee Programming note: I’m having a mix of tolerable and, to be blunt, really bad days with this bout of long covid. Def not looking for solace; I’m at least pretty functional, and that is not the case for thousands of others. But, it does mean you’re going to occasionally get late, short,…

yq; Seafowl yq; Seafowl Programming note: I spent an inordinate number of minutes (that I should not have spared) on an attempt to come up with a cool tag line for this Drop. I eventually decided that writing was more important than an ill-fated attempt at being “cool”. To that end, I’m giving myself the…

Portainer; k6; Inoreader Feed Rules Fear not, stout patrons! I shall not let my weekend’s obsessive compulsive WebR disorder stay me from my mission to provide a Bonus Drop! Having said that, I’ve typed alot this weekend. So, while this is most certainly a Bonus Drop by the strictest definition, it is also going to…

You Complete Me Today’s WPE finishes out this shell-centric week with a safari into the land of shell completions. If you’re thinking, “But, I already know how to hit the <TAB> key!”, then this post is absolutely for you, since we’re not only covering some more advanced shell completion techniques (yes, there is life beyond…

declare/readonly; direnv/quickenv; autoenv Since we encountered some terminal velocity in yesterday’s Drop, we’ll join Master Splinter‘s 🐢 crew for the day and stay in our (Linux/macOS/BSD) shells. Today’s Drop looks at some ways to make our CLI environment variable ops safer and how to wield them with the efficiency of a 🥷🏼 with some new…

McFly, hey; Lance Programming note: this is the second installment of the Drop’s Need For Speed. It also finally dawned on me that I can include #hashtags within each edition (which I’ll place at the bottom of the posts). This will make it possible to craft handy URLs like that “Need For Speed” one to…

comm; join; Re-imagining Coreutils The phrase “Living off the land” was coined by Christopher Campbell and Matt Graeber at DerbyCon 3, one of far, far too many cybersecurity conferences, over nine years ago. The phrase refers to an attacker technique which involves primarily using only tools and information available on a given system/device to achieve…