hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

Failed Architecture; Headfull Scraping; IPv4 Turf War Failed Architecture “Architecture” is defined as the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings (I’d argue the official definition should s/buildings/spaces), and the practice of architecture is not confined to the minds and hands of architects, but also incorporates elements from economists, city/urban planners, historians, and politicians.…

jsplit; cURL beyond the basics; Quamina jsplit Today, results from REST API calls are more than likely to be JSON values of some sort (let’s call this an “entwined” JSON response). Usually, these values take the form of some result set metadata and an array of values. This is fine, buf if you work with…

ImHex; Unimperiling Homebrew; Wonder In The Woods A bit of a sampler-tray to start the week off… ImHex I’ve viewed proprietary or undocumented file formats as a Rubik’s-esque challenge for most of my silicon-enabled existence. When I had more free hobby time, one of my more enjoyable distractions was to make R packages (e.g. {arabia})…

Other Peoples’ Dotfiles; 🍩 & DocQuery; ExplainDev Other Peoples’ Dotfiles In Unix-like operating systems, any file or folder that starts with a dot character (for example, /home/user/.config), commonly called a dot file or dotfile, is to be treated as “hidden” (this generally means that — by default — commands that list files or filesystem GUIs won’t…

FISSURE; Fog Data Science; Two-Minute Mornings FISSURE A few years ago, our home fuel provider migrated from combined process of estimating when customer supplies were likely to be low and having humans trek across our fairly large rural area to take tank gauge readings (to help refine said estimates) to using tang gauge sensors hooked…

Wren ; MSWasm; Tranco Wren One of the best aspects of being a “programming language collector” is that you can spend all your time learning new languages and never get any real work done in any of them! Yes, that’s right; the sinking feeling you just started having is justified as, today, I’m distracting your…

Fluffy; chrony; Iceland’s Purple Deserts Fluffy Fluffy “watches, reports Linux on-disk filesystem events faithfully,” and is both a command line utility and a library you can use in your own projects. Performing a task when something happens to a single file or a directory tree of files is a pretty common idiom. In fact, we’ve…

gping; Visualizing Codebases; arxiv2notion Let’s start the week with a refresh of a foundational command line tool, a new way to view codebases, and something to help you/your team organize research links. gping When there’s a need to investigate network issues, the “ping” command line utility almost types itself for most of us. Most hosts/devices…

Vercel; Serverless or Bust; Weekend Reading Salesforce, the parent company of Heroku — for the quarter ending April 30, 2022 — realized $5.366B in gross profit. I guess that many bags of Benjamins just weren’t enough to continue offering a free tier on Heroku. (Aside: Def read that Heroku blog; it’s a masterclass in skeezy…

graphviz (wasm); Observable Teams; OpenAI Codex Walkthrough grapviz (wasm) Graphviz is open-source graph visualization software. This is likely not news to anyone reading this newsletter. It’s been around for ages, and you likely come across graph visualizations made with Graphviz quite regularly. The DOT Language is used to specify graph vertices/edges, plus various features of…