hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

Timewarrior; Taskwarrior; ArchiveTeam Warrior ✅ Got an 80’s rock song reference in the headline before the end of January. While no villages were sacked nor armour pierced during the making of this edition, doing anything in these odd times can definitely feel like a battle. Today, we cover three digital munitions that will help you…

JSX; MDX; Astro 2.0 I want to believe the truth is out there when it comes to the One True Framework to Rule Them All1. Painfully forced ledes aside, today’s Drop is all about frameworks. The first two sections are mostly a setup for the final one, but they’re all fairly standalone. If you’re not…

Long Ago, In A Terminal Far, Far Away; Embedding Observable; Nothin’ But A [3]2-Bit Hacker We’re on Day 2 of yet-another product of Central Maine Power’s abject neglect of preventative maintenance work across Maine. This means a bit of scrambling between temporary lodging and physical abode-monitoring, whilst also trying to get some $WORK done. So,…

RabbitControl; Rabbit Ear; tac Today’s tethered edition (yet-another New England snow-event that takes power and internet out just before our replacement generator is installed) [belatedly] celebrates Lunar New Year by showcasing two 🐇 and one 🐱-themed resources. RabbitControl RabbitControl [GH] (RC) is a “protocol for remote-control” that enables generation of improvised user interfaces for parameters…

Docker Customization 101 In last week’s WPE I fully ACK’d that some of these WPEs were…complex. I’m trying to adhere to a personal “no assumptions” rule in 2023 (ask me how that’s working out sometime), and that goes triple for these WPEs. So, for a bit, these will be a more “101”-focused, similar to how…

Warp; sqlite-xsv; WASM in 2023 Today, we take a look at three, lacking a better word, “technologies” that have been covered in previous drops to see what they’ve brought to the table for 2023. Warp Warp [GH] — a fresh take on the beloved terminal — was in one of the earliest drops, and keen-eyed…

The GURQ; Speed Trap; Fanfare For Air Filters Today’s Drop features three diverse resources that present opportunities to increase knowledge in different ways. However, be prepared to close on a somewhat sad note. Programming note: It seems the boy billionaire yanked one too many cables in his latest fit of impotency, as the Substack auto-post…

wasavi / vim.wasm; Pulsar; ecode Perhaps, the best phrase to describe the impetus for the continued evolution of the humble text editor since the early days of computing is “adopt, adapt, and improve”. Sure, real coders/workers still use ed for all their needs, but the rest of us are eager and willing to use modern,…

ytgrep; yt-dlp; ffmpeg For some folks (like me), video content is the least optimal way of consuming information. Doubly so if streaming is required, especially if on the move in rural areas. When learning something, I’d rather have text and static images any day (for most content). Unless something extremely useful is being conveyed visually…

What A Mesh! We’re mixing up this week’s WPE to be something a bit less grandiose in nature (yes, I am keenly aware of the complexity levels of many of the previous drops). That doesn’t mean it will lack utility! The forthcoming password manager drop (which will also discuss 2FA/MFA) will have a suggested (but…