hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

Jsonnet; Hero; Chaotic Stable [Diffusion] Jsonnet This section is brought to you by the letter ‘G’, in that I learned about jsonnet [GH] via a GreyNoise work Slack conversation yesterday. It is no secret that I believe YAML should die in a 🔥. I’m not the only one with said sentiment. JSON isn’t a great…

Tokei; Quadratic; xx Tokei Many a tome has been penned on the efficacy of counting “lines of code” (“LoC” from now on) in a project. This is one of them; this is another; as is this. Each is a sample from a different “camp”, and those are only three of many camps in this debate.…

rs; jot; datamash Today’s edition is all about data ops at the command line, and not some new-fangled, fancy Rust-based level-ups of ancient utilities (e.g. ripgrep). We’re talking ’bout old school, super-tiny binaries with powerful features that you likely (needlessly) fire up Python and R for. rs The rs utility “reads the standard input, interpreting…

Resources to kick-start your Rust journey One of my Twitter rants made its way into ZDNet, and the thread it was in sparked some ⁇ on how to get started in Rust. Rather than thread it, I’m dropping some thoughts here, since they’re easier to export to some other platform when I eventually leave Substack.…

Mithril; REM; Wright It’s the Friday, “Weekend Project” edition! Today, there are three resources designed to get you building something fun on the intertubes. Doesn’t have to be yuge, either! Let’s dive in. Mithril Mithril.js [GH] is a “modern client-side JavaScript framework for building Single Page Applications. It’s small (< 10kb gzip), fast and provides…

ForecastAdvisor; Olive.c; wait ForecastAdvisor Chances are, if I were to ask you for today’s weather forecast you’d turn to stare, zombie-like, into some glowing rectangle and mindlessly repeat whatever’s on your favorite weather app or site, never once giving thought to how accurate said report is. While weather forecasting has come a very long way,…

libredirect; sd; Text Rendering Hates You libredirect If you don’t run with a super hardened browser privacy setup (like me), you may not have noticed that it’s gotten much harder this past year to not be tracked as you move about the interwebs. Blocking vs tracking is an escalation game that we end users are…

Spyglass; HTTP Toolkit; chartr Keen observers will note the slight name change to “Drop” vs “Finds”. “Finds” always felt awkward, and “Drop” feels much more appropriate. I’ll get proper domains setup once I get caught back up at work/home. Spyglass Internet content and search is busted. Said facts are two reasons I continue to be…

Heat; Copy.AI; ✳️2✳️ Happy Monday, fearless readers! Apologies for the unannounced hiatus. I was down and out for just over a week thanks to a double-jab of the latest Pfizer Covid booster (all previous ‘ccines were Moderna) and seasonal influenza. It was a real effort just sitting up most of last week, given that it…

Steampipe; Web Archiving: Why Care About The Past Steampipe In these Friday editions, I try to drop resources that you can (if you so choose) really dig into over the weekend, and if you’re a fan of SQL or even just a fan of normalizing access to diverse resources, then I dare you (double dog,…