hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

Deca Exa Giga Mega; Font Fingerprints; Font Rescue You may have noticed that I’m staying out of this week’s “AI Wars” debate. I will likely continue to do so since it’s pretty obvious we have neither collective ability nor will to prevent giant, global, multinational companies from experimenting on us, knowing full well the potential…

8-bit Workshop; StageTop; DOOM The Way it Was Meant to Be Played Programming note: I make it a point to Kagi, Google, and Bing the newsletter theme titles just in case the most prolific result(s) of my “clever” coinage might be offensive (at least to me). This edition’s themed title most prolific result is, indeed,…

Prompts, PowerShell, & MS Paint; IPv6 Canvas; 🇺🇸 Frequency Allocation Chart AI-generated images get far too much attention these days. Sure, they’re cleverly built tools, but we humans have been making artsy marks on canvases of all shapes and sizes for thousands of years, and we will continue to do so for, likely, ever. While…

sftp > scp; ssh-keyscan; ssheasy Web browsers (speaking of which, my 5 Arc browser invites were replenished) get all the 💙 . They provide a window to the world [wide web], and have been the powerhouse behind our ability to waste countless, precious hours on social media or binge-watching inane shows. Yes, they are also,…

GitHub Updates; Observable Updates; KagAI The Daily Drop has paid subscribers! (Yes, plural!) I feel (positively!) obligated to provide extra content for these kind/generous souls (🙏🏽), so this is a first go at said endeavour. Some intra-week tidbits never make it to the drops. There are plenty of reasons for this, but I usually make…

Making Your Credentials Less Incredulous While these WPEs usually focus on fun desserts 🎂, a balanced diet requires consuming at least some green veggies. All of us use credentials to access all sorts of protected systems and information. Managing these credentials is hard, mostly due to three decades of consistent failures by all of us…

Dox Accuracy; DRY AI; Wood-ent You Like to Know? Today is a day of the year when a freakishly large part of the United States waits with great anticipation for some old, costumed codgers to torture a poor member of the Sciuridae family in a futile effort to predict how much longer we will have…

Disheveled Trends; Malignant Maps; Incidental AI: Just One More Thing These Drops are usually positive, but not everything out there is all shiny and happy. Every so often, we really should focus on the horrible, so we can fully appreciate the awesome. And, today’s Drop is, indeed, full of quite horrible things. Disheveled Trends Chances…

SQLGlot; Common Table Expressions; DuckDB SQL Tools For VS Code Programming note: If you tapped the “Subscribe” button within the past 24 hours, you were likely greeted with Substack’s menu of subscription support options. A kind and generous soul tapped the “support” button (I don’t actually know what that said/looked like) and Substack put me…

Prompt Injection; AI Incident Database; Historical Eye Programming note: The storm-fueled chaos of the beginning of the last week spilled over into last Thursday evening and Friday morning. This nuked any chance of an end-of-week “Weekend Project Edition” (which was going to be on getting your passwords/authentication houses in order). I’d’ve done the WPE Drop…