hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

htmlq Thanks to the 💣🌀 and generator/⚡️🔌🪫 woes at the Maine compound, we’re staying a tad longer than expected at my grandson’s abode. Which means #2.1 continues to compel most of my personal compute cycles. As such, we’ll also continue the “quick drops” motif (until the schedule is back to normal), but with a twist:…

Non-skeezy Algorithmic Following on Mastodon I came across a neat project that has helped me find new folks to follow (think the “Who To Follow” on the bird site, but with a straightforward & open-source algorithm). While you could just hit a Vercel app the creator spun up, you can run it as a local…

The Weather [Data Sources|Outside] [Is/Are] Frightful On The Twelfth (& Last!) Day Of Quick Drops 🎅🏽hrbrmstr🎅🏽 Gave To Me… 🎶 Alternative Weather Sources 🎶 (If this is your first Xmas Quick Drop, head back to Day 01 to find out what’s going on.) On this last day of quick drops (and the last one until…

Unison; Koka; Vale On The Eleventh Day Of Quick Drops 🎅🏽hrbrmstr🎅🏽 Gave To Me… 🎶 New Languages A-Brewing 🎶 (If this is your first Xmas Quick Drop, head back to Day 01 to find out what’s going on.) “Back in my day” programming language creation pace was slow and steady. Sure, compsci academics needed to…

Into the RSS-verse On The Tenth Day Of Quick Drops 🎅🏽hrbrmstr🎅🏽 Gave To Me… 🎶 Really Simple Syndication 🎶 (If this is your first Xmas Quick Drop, head back to Day 01 to find out what’s going on.) RSS feeds have survived many “death of…” predictions since Google Reader closed up shop. They’re how I…

Why/Why/When of Scrollytelling; Svelte v1; Scrollama v3; Scrollytelling for Observable; + Tiny Games On The Ninth Day Of Quick Drops 🎅🏽hrbrmstr🎅🏽 Gave To Me… 🎶 Tiny Games & Scrollytelling 🎶 (If this is your first Xmas Quick Drop, head back to Day 01 to find out what’s going on.) For the past couple of years,…

sqlite-loadable-rs; sqlite-go; sqlite extension library; sqlite all the things On The Eighth Day Of Quick Drops 🎅🏽hrbrmstr🎅🏽 Gave To Me… 🎶 SQLite Extend[er|ion]s! 🎶 (If this is your first Xmas Quick Drop, head back to Day 01 to find out what’s going on.) Well, I correctly predicted that these would be quick drops as soon…

Observable Highlights On The Seventh Day Of Quick Drops 🎅🏽hrbrmstr🎅🏽 Gave To Me… 🎶 Cool Notebooks Observing! 🎶 (If this is your first Xmas Quick Drop, head back to Day 01 to find out what’s going on.) hrbrsanta’s sleigh is in transit mode today (the nor’easter delayed our Xmas migration to the grandson’s abode) so…

rtl_433 / Flipper Zero; rtl-sdr; 🛫🛬 On The Sixth Day Of Quick Drops 🎅🏽hrbrmstr🎅🏽 Gave To Me… 🎶 Radios A-Waving! 🎶 (If this is your first Xmas Quick Drop, head back to Day 01 to find out what’s going on.) O.K. The attempt to keep an “-ing” in this sixth drop day’s tagline may be…

fig; DevDash; tiny-care-terminal On The Fifth Day Of Quick Drops 🎅🏽hrbrmstr🎅🏽 Gave To Me… 🎶 Tasty Terminal Treats! 🎶 (If this is your first Xmas Quick Drop, head back to Day 01 to find out what’s going on.) My computing life was born at the CLI and will no doubt end the same way. Nobody…