hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

Semantic Typography; Stop Designing Languages?; Design System Accessibility Every so often, these Drops encourage folks to exit their terminals, quiesce their Docker containers, close VS Code1, pour a cup/glass of their fav beverage, and go for a digital excursion into Designville. Longtime2 readers can likely jump to today’s sections, all of which focus on some…

An Apt Endeavor Programming note: The Drop is one away from 500 subscribers! Many thanks to all readers for providing the inspiration to keep this daily endeavour cranking! Subscribe now While I’ve never done a survey of you dashing Drop readers, I suspect — since you read, sub, and support this newsletter — that the majority…

Poline; Plotteus; Animating Changes in Webpages I hope you’ve been keeping up with inertial dampener maintenance, since today we make an abrupt course change from the inner workings of internet email protocols, and head into to some freshly chart-ed territory. We’ll first explore a fancy new way to generate color palettes (that I suspect ~50%+,…

JMAP; Stalwart; mox I reckon most of us likely do not give much thought to a service we all use every single day. We are content…—No. Scratch that. We are resolved to the fact that we have become vassals to an endless stimulus–response loop. It all begins with a rounded corner, rectangular notification and an…

Touring The Container Developer Tooling Landscape; A Rosetta (Stone) For Docker;Bitnami ARM Containers; OrbStack Today’s Drop focuses on all things containers, and you’ll be glad to hear that I curbed my pun enthusiasm (e.g., no “contain yourself” or shipping references) for the entire issue. I think that warrants a 🍪 indulgence for me, today. Keen-eyed…

Memos; tclip; write freely Pens and swords got nuthin’ on the modern tools we use to communicate with each other. Today we ease into the week, on this penultimate day of February, with three resources to help spread your thoughts and ideas to the four corners and beyond. memos I could attempt to wax poetic,…

Typographic Hierarchy; dstp; Nickel; Ride-By-Wire Releasing another Bonus Drop vs. WPE b/c of (yes, still) this daft digit of mine. In other news, Arc decided to let google win, so you may want to use https://rud.is/sandbox-check/ on any Chrome instance (Canary overrides some prefs now, too) if you are still using Chrome/Chromium browsers. Hello again,…

The ABCs of RFCs Keeping with the theme of not forcing everyone to learn how to be a full-stack engineer in a 48-hour period, today’s drop continues to focus on the fundamentals. While you were encouraged to go outside last weekend (and, hopefully, a few folks have become life-long sky/star-gazers after reading last week’s edition),…

CapRover; Coolify; Jam Platforms had their time. Sure, they gave us convenience, but at what cost?! Last year, Heroku burned many-a-coder with their greedy pullback. Musk’s desperate moves to increased monetization have made Twitter links on Mastodon a-hrefs non gratta. And, many founding denizens of the fediverse will look down on you if you drop…