hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

Nefariousness By The Numbers; Let’s Build A Chrome Extension That Steals Everything; Hakari I had a different post scheduled for today, but when I noticed that Matt Frisbie crafted a post on malicious browser extensions shortly after I encouraged use of yet-another browser extension, I felt compelled to change direction. So, today, we talk a…

StreetPass; msync; Tootpick Yes, I am still on Twitter. But, I am there mostly to RT/boost $WORK content1, spar with authoritarians, and keep in contact with the few folks who haven’t found their way to other platforms. I’m sad so many journalists have stuck around on Musk’s sinking ship, since their presence adds some unwarranted…

Maestral; osync; Unison Programming note: It turns out that last week’s debilitation was due to everyone’s least favourite spike protein. In other news, the ECMWF forecasts suggest we’re going to be hit with a wallop of a ❄️ storm later this week. Between the continued recovery and the pending snopocalypse, I’m once more working to…

Homebrew 4.0; Journal Hijacks;Birthday Curl This is a special, weekend, bonus edition of the Daily Drop for paid subscribers. Today, we dive into Homebrew’s 4.0 release, give you a peek into the seedier side of academic journals, and wish the coolest programming library/utility an impending Many Happy Returns of the Day! Homebrew 4.0 NOTE: This…

Look! Up In The Sky! Most of these WPEs encourage some fairly unhealthy sedentary behaviors like: “Here, go sit and read through this giant set of unfamiliar resources, then sit some more to do something with them.” Today we mix it up a bit, while still being tech/science-y focused, and propel you head first into…

So sumy; sumgram; rustbert In a recent Bonus Drop, I dedicated a section to Kagi AI. I’m a big fan of Kagi, and am quite pleased at the services and features I receive for my monthly fee.1 Their freemium model lets them use the proceeds to both run the service, and fuel new development. Rather…

Fast Parsing HTTP Verbs; Cyber; Mellisearch Today, the focus is on all things fast and furious. Will I take advantage of the Drop’s title theme in the future by tacking on version numbers? Absolutely. Though, as astute readers likely noticed, they will be properly semverd. Programming note: your friendly neighborhood Substack-Man is more than a…

Blinkin’ Chrome on iOS; Qutebrowser; Carbonyl As Marvel’s “The Thing” might say (if he was addicted to the internet): “It’s BROWSIN’ TIME!” Today’s Drop is 100% focused on “alternative” clients for browsing the shambles of what Sir Berners-Lee started so long ago. Blinkin’ Chrome on iOS While everyone was distracted by balloons, UFOs, earthquakes, and…

A Remarkably Mediocre Song; A Remarkable Future For Document Machinations; reMarkable (2) We look at three remarkable resources, today, though not all are remarkable in the same (or good) ways. Aside: some clever human used Whisper to transcribe all of FOSDEM 2023. A Remarkably Mediocre Song The old school “infosec hermit” in me tends to…

Dancing With Dotfiles NOTE: if you already religiously use a dotfile management system, skip to the middle section. In other news: there are still some charges left in this week’s Arc browser invite battery. In Defense of Dotfiles We’ve discussed dotfiles before. They’re the pseudo-invisible configuration files that can help level up computing environments. For…