hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

jq One-liner; Observable Tweets; twitter-archive-parser Short newsletter today, as I spent too much time on the Day 09 #30DayMapChallenge entry (I’m cataloging all the entries in this Observable notebook). The 🐦 ship appears to be rapidly sinking, so this drop is dedicated to some tools to help you dig through all your historical hot-takes (you…

Acreom; daily.dev; We’re Gonna Need A Bigger 🎂 To everyone who, last week, helped give polysci academics & pundits fodder for a thousand papers/books/blogs/pods: thank you! Special thanks to Gen Z (ima still snark on y’all, tho) and women who — as I’m sure all the data will eventually show — truly turned the tide…

Honk If You Like The Fediverse! So, you’ve committed to abandoning the bird site, joined a 🐘 instance, or three, and are now a citizen of the Fediverse. This is 👍🏽! But, what if you want to dig into this brave new universe a bit and see how it works? Or, perhaps you wish to…

I̶t̶ ̶A̶i̶n̶’̶t̶It’s Sure Easy Being Blue; Enter The Matrix; WebFinger What. A. Week. One of my biggest concerns for this past Tuesday (and the coming week as some contentious races are finally tabulated) was the possibility of mass voter intimidation and actual violence. Thankfully, most violent encounters only made it to the level of shouting…

Rill Developer; Staving off the impending demise of liberal democracy in 🇺🇸 Hey folks. I’ve been so focused on scraping battleground state election news, helping some pro-democracy orgs with tech, and monitoring+reporting 2A/MAGA/GOP vote suppression shenanigans that there’s no way I’ll get either the newsletter or #30DayMapChallenge entries in until at least ~Thursday. One tech…

A private space for us to converse and connect Today, I’m announcing a brand-new addition to my Substack publication: the hrbrmstr’s Daily Drop subscriber chat. This is a conversation space in the Substack app that I set up exclusively for y’all. It’s a cross between a group chat and live hangout. I’ll post short prompts,…

Making the most of our brave, new, frustrating, federated universe Welcome to another installment of The Daily Drop’s Weekend Project edition! Rather than drop a few different, but related, resources for you to work on your own random experiments, today’s is singularly focused on the Fediverse, with an even more specific focus on one Fediverse…

IP addresses as spoils of war; mitmproxy 9; SELECT * FROM certificate_and_identities; IP addresses as spoils of war Russia’s war to conquer Ukraine has had many global side effects. The humanitarian crisis is paramount, with millions of displaced Ukrainians needing food, shelter, healthcare, and education. The impacts to the global supply chain have created food…

Should We Really Be Messing with Asteroid Orbits?; Binding On Port 0; SPyQL: Command-line Data Analytics I’m not passing up an offer for a pre-work breakfast outing with @mrshrbrmstr (who usually WFH on Wednesdays), so you get to do some work for today’s drop by heading straight to the links with minimal expository. First-run, freshly…

Simple data analysis (SDA) in JavaScript; Decker & Lil Just two sections today as either resource could very well end up reducing your work output in some way; and, when combined, I suspect you might even forget to nom some tacos at lunchtime. Simple data analysis (SDA) in JavaScript Data journalists are often unsung heroes…