hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #549 (2024-11-04): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    This edition of the Drop explores API security, efficiency with DuckDB, and JavaScript best practices for 2024. It emphasizes ensuring HTTPS in API requests to protect sensitive data and offers insights on using DuckDB for file comparison. Additionally, it discusses modern JavaScript features that enhance code quality and maintenance.

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  • Bonus Drop #63 (2024-09-22): Workin’ The Workflows

    In the weekend Bonus Drop we take a look at Restish for streamlined API interactions, learn how to access RFC metadata effortlessly, and explore Finicky for improved browser management on macOS.

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  • Drop #532 (2024-09-19): Divide and Conquer

    Today’s Drop discusses the importance of simplicity in web design, highlighting three aspects: Lorem Picsum, a flexible image placeholder service; CSS unit division for responsive designs using the calc() function; and the effectiveness of simple HTML in ensuring accessibility, particularly for public services.

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  • Drop #526 (2024-09-09): Monday Morning Grab Bag Misfire

    Today’s Monday “misfire” Drop covers GNU Screen 5.0.0 (which introduces new commands and escape sequences), Isocons (which offers free customizable isometric icons), and Reasonable Colors (which provides an open-source color system for accessible and aesthetically pleasing palettes).

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  • Bonus Drop #50 (2024-06-23): Something For Everyone

    The weekend Bonus Drop offers something for everyone, including Reasonable Colors for accessible, high-contrast color combinations, RoosterJS for rich text editing, and insight into extreme UV index conditions. Learn about the UV Index’s origins and global standardization, and the availability of mobile apps to track UV radiation levels for public health safety.

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  • Drop #463 (2024-05-10): Everybody’s [Workin|Playin]’ For The Weekend

    Today’s Drop features a new markup language called MinTyML that has been introduced, aiming to simplify HTML coding by providing a more concise syntax and reducing redundancy. It further features Go Katas covering various programming idioms to improve proficiency in Go. And, multiplayer Zork allows playing the classic game with friends for an enhanced experience.

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  • Drop #455 (2024-04-22): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop discusses three spiffy tools: Duckling, neko, and tv. Duckling is a data management app for viewing and querying multiple data sources. Neko is a remote desktop tool for private web browsing and collaborative projects, while tv is a command-line tool for pretty-printing CSV files. Each tool offers unique features for data enthusiasts and…

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  • Drop #441 (2024-04-11): Thursday Three Letter Trio

    pet; tuc; nip Today, we cover three (well, four, really) tools/services that are each 3-letters in length, do one thing, and do it bonkers well. TL;DR (This is an AI-generated summary of today’s Drop.) pet If you’re even remotely like me (in the following aspect), you likely execute repetitive commands or scripts on a fairly…

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  • Drop #412 (2024-01-31): HTTP Status Symbols

    The post discusses the fun and creativity surrounding HTTP status codes. It mentions a project mapping status codes to telephone area codes, a tube map of status codes, and collections of cat and dog pictures associated with status codes. It also provides resources for creating cartographic projects and accessing the tube map.

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  • Drop #384 (2023-12-06): Alternate "Bins"

    httpbun; postman-echo; go-httpbin Tis a crazy week in hrbr-land, so a very light, but focused, Drop, today, showcasing three decent alternatives to the OG HTTPbin. For those new to HTTPbin… HTTPBin is a remarkable HTTP request and response service, written in Python, that provides a simple yet powerful tool for testing and debugging HTTP-related services.…

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