hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

nvdtools; pup; Collection of Awesome Command Lines We’ve been prepping for a road-trip to see #2.1, so no “weekend project” edition today, just three resources that may be useful some day. Look for the Knowledge Drop on Sunday (I mentioned it in yesterday’s edition). nvdtools I tend to over-compensate in the opposite direction of “cybersecurity”…

hintfo; bandwhich; avahi/dns-sd Hidden data and services are all around us in files and ethereal network packets. Today’s drop is all about making these invisible bits quite visible, and potentially useful. hintfo Thanks to TikTok/etc., it seems the kids know a bit about metadata, so much so that “influencers” have managed to kill one of…

glow; hget; crawley Programming note: I need to keep the screenshots in this edition fairly small as Substack will cut off the email version of the newsletter if I do not, so definitely check out each utility to see larger examples in your own terminal. glow Glow is a Golang-based terminal-based markdown reader. While that…

colorsandfonts; Logical Fallacies; Kroki Before hitting today’s links, I wanted to point your attention back to a resource we covered in August: OkSo. The OkSo folks have a new showcase section that has examples of what you can do with the drawing app. If you’ve been playing with OkSo and have some gaze-worthy creations, make…

BeakerX; Stencila; Cupcake Clouds Apologies for no drops last Thursday/Friday. I took the news of the loss of a decade’s long friend harder than expected and needed any extra energy/focus for the fam and $DAYJOB. PSA: check in on folks way more often than you think you should. I may be a Rust/R/Quarto fanboi, but…

bonk; rmx; Rethinking Ballot Selfies The Rust community seems heck bent on replacing time-worn utilities with modern crustacean counterparts. We’ll cover two of them in this edition along with a link to a resource to help folks in the U.S. stay out of jail this election season. bonk Both of today’s replacement utilities are one-hit…

Rustpad; D3 Graph Theory; CO2.js Far too many days have passed since we’ve had some Rust-fueled topics, but we’ll limit it to just one, this time. Rustpad Real-time editors have a surprising history, dating “all the way” back to 1968. There were many desktop and fledgling “cloud” offerings back in the early 2000’s, many of…

Prompt Engineering (is hard); Data Memos; Sketchy Maps Prompt Engineering (is hard) Programming note: You may want to check out Lynn’s latest newsletter where she covers “Stable Hacking” (I promise it has nothing to do with the equine horror genre) before digesting this section. A little over a month ago, at what I thought, then,…

Nightdrive; John Doe; Tidy Git As I type in disbelief that Friday is already upon us, I’m finding it difficult to drop any major weekend projects on folks since a few million humans in the U.S. have been impacted by the recent hurricane that just happens to be #4’s namesake. We’re also well-into leaf peeper…

JSON Text Sequences; jsc; ljt & jpt Rust has had far too much airtime in this newsletter, so today’s edition is 100% dedicated to JavaScript. JSON Text Sequences Consider, for a moment, the humble ASCII table (the one below uses the character hexadecimal values vs decimal): Thanks to having top-notch marketing departments, characters such as…