hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

fq; hq; oq Some folks strive to grab the shortest username on a new service/system. Others race to register a prized single character domain of a new, 2-character TLD (usually for nefarious purposes). And, a remaining few humans seem to be intent on rapidly reducing the number of available 2-character combinations of “[[:alpha:]]q” names for…

Katana; Colly; Huginn Interest in web scraping has grown substantially over the past decade, yet most folks needing to mine the web for data still default to using ancient Python or Java-based technology to get the job done. There are modern alternatives, some with highly specialized functionality, three of which we’ll cover today. Katana This…

http.server (🐍); http-server (JS); devd (golang); miniserve (Rust) Whether exfiltrating company seekrits, letting a friend quickly grab some movie you torrented, or legitimately needing to test some HTML/JS/WASM/CSS creation you’ve built, sometimes you just need to fire up a web server right now with as little pain as possible. Depending on your preferred base environment,…

вдячний; Turkeys Away: An Oral History This is a quick drop as I haz cooking to do! вдячний Many of us have the “boilerplate” вдячний list of family, friends, and community (which I honestly, all too often, take for granted). Those of us blessed with such a highly personal gratitude list may also forget that…

Crosswalker ⟕; RIATE 🗺️ 🛠️; Husky 🐾 Crosswalker ⟕ There are some universal truths that will never go away. James Holden loves coffee; There’s “OPA”, and there’s “O.P.A.”; and, data is messy. One of the problems with messy data is that you can have one, lovingly-curated, pristine dataset — say a list of voting precincts…

Seven (Core) Principles Of Design; nfty; The Carp Has Drowned (a.k.a. Losing Is Fun For Everyone!) (The #30DayMapChallenge is over soon, and with that end, the 0900ET-ish mbox arrival times will resume.) Seven (Core) Principles Of Design A colleague of mine reminded me that I haven’t covered design principles in a while (being addicted to…

Arc browser first impressions. Apologies to readers for no Friday/Weekend Edition drop. #Exhausted would be a great way to describe what Friday was, so much so that I ended up grabbing 8h30m of sleep (96% Whoop recovery!) over that night. Back on it today, with some first impressions of the world’s newest browser. The Arc…

Official SQLite WASM; Static Timeline Generator; FediDB ICYMI: I discovered that Observable collections and users have RSS feeds! Which means you have a pretty great place to do blogging (JS/datavis not required), provided you don’t mind relying on a third-party hosting your data. Official SQLite WASM SQLite v3.40.0 was released yesterday, with official support for…

Enhance…; tsnet; 🐘 RSS Three unrelated components in today’s drop, but each gave me a bit of joy after discovering them, and I hope at least one does for you. Enhance… Anyone of a certain age remembers when PCs started finding their ways into television shows and movies. These giant, rectangular box cases adorned with…