hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

Fleet; Wazuh; Arkime On The Fourth Day Of Quick Drops 🎅🏽hrbrmstr🎅🏽 Gave To Me… 🎶 Froody Cyber Tools 🎶 (If this is your first Xmas Quick Drop, head back to Day 01 to find out what’s going on.) Had a tad more time yesterday for a longer drop, but we’re back on the original plan.…

Plot: Geo; unovis; Intopia Accessibility On The Third Day Of Quick Drops 🎅🏽hrbrmstr🎅🏽 Gave To Me… 🎶 Data Vis Delights 🎶 While no 🐔 were harmed in the making of this drop, there are three resources, and @neocarto@vis.social is mentioned again (so, 🇫🇷 is implictly included); thus, there is at least some conformity to the…

decksh; pptxer; mdp On The Second Day Of Quick Drops 🎅🏽hrbrmstr🎅🏽 Gave To Me… 🎶 Three slide deck tools… 🎶 (see yesterday’s drop if you’re confused abt what the heck is going on with these drops) Halls are the only things to be decked at this time of year, and today’s drop features three alternative…

ngrok-rs; ngrok-go; ngrok-js Between tying up loose year-ends at $WORK and preparing to spend some significant calendar units with #2.1, time and I are not exactly on friendly terms. I’m likely going to have to abandon Advent of Code and will also be shipping short drops until Christmas, picking up and extending drops from previous…

Huginn It Out With darker days and colder weather cascading across the Northern Hemisphere, late fall/early winter is a great time for weekend projects to pick up new tech or play with tech you’ve not made time to before. Today’s challenge is to build an RSS feed for a source that doesn’t have one, and…

VS Code Remote Tunnels; frp Microsoft dropped some tunneling, er, goodness? on us today, so we’ll cover it and two other tunneling setups you can use to exfiltrate data gain legitimate access to network-restricted services. Just make sure you know what you’re doing; otherwise you’re leaving a wide open door for folks on Santa’s naughty…

Duotones; randoma11y; 2colors I spent a wee too much time on today’s #AdventOfCode, so this is a somewhat compressed issue. We have over-emphasized CLI tools a bit, so today you get three web ones (well, one is also locally installable) that’ll help you in selecting constrained color palettes. I firmly believe constraints beget creativity, and…

xmllint; xidel; xpath (macOS/Perl) I’m goofing around with some Mastodon and other feeds, so I decided to check the market in command line XML parsing tools. It turns out, many (most?) of the “modern” ones written in Go, or Node.JS kind of suck. They either fail to process XML due to non-existent errors, force you…

sd; wikit; hcitool If your timeline is anything like mine, it’s been awash in ChatGPT screen captures. Not to get all “meta” in an intro of a “cool finds” daily(-ish) newsletter, or anything, but knowledge workers now truly do need to be ready for our “coal miner” moment. ChatGPT isn’t going to kill [m]any jobs…

Are You [, Too, Ready For] D2? 🚨 Before we begin, and also because this drop talks about Visual Studio Code, please see this security bulletin about CVE-2022-41034 — which details a new remote code execution weakness in VS Code. While this issue mainly impacts GitHub Codespaces, github.dev, and the web-based VS Code for the…