hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

plistwatch; Hyperpolyglot; Wargame Nexus There isn’t a ton of complexity or nuance for the items noted in today’s sections, which should make it quickly digestible. plistwatch (This is kind-of macOS-only, so you can skip this if you’re using a lesser operating system.) A property list (plist) is a representation of a hierarchy of objects that…

Sidecar Data No, you haven’t mistakenly opened your Data Is Plural newsletter that has an entries for motorcycle sidecar annual production rates. And, yes, there is but one topic today. Sort of. Sidecar Data Folks who code in various shells (e.g. bash, ksh) or scripting languages (e.g. python), and even some compiled languages (more on…

Oleg Dolya’s Generators; OpenAudible; Small, Sharp Tools Oleg Dolya’s Generators I feel as if I’m stepping on Lynn’s (@arnicas) toes (check out her newsletter!) with this entry, but I kept clicking on so many of Oleg Dolya’s (@watawatabou) procedurally generated creations to see new, dynamic ones that I just had to tell y’all about it.…

dua; DNS Response Size; Command Line Interface Guidelines Howdy, Denver! Managed to slipstream an edition in amongst travel (I had forgotten just how much I hate domestic air travel). Still lots of command line goodness, today, with a DNS deep dive tossed in for good measure. dua dua [GH] (“Disk Usage Analyzer”) is a Rust…

librsvg; icat; tv It looks like today is “Command Line Monday” (let’s see if I can manage to consistently make that “a thing” each week). In other news, I cannot guarantee a daily edition cadence this week as I’m on a ✈️ Monday & Friday + at a company off-site Tue-Thu. Also, no section header…

Netplan; PolarProxy; “The Drop” A bit of a change-up in plans for today’s edition. Rather than three distinct+diverse topics with the usual extended blathering, there are three topics that build up on each other in an effort to truly make this a “weekend edition”. I won’t spoil the surprise, and I’ve named topic number three…

Snipe-IT; Dark Knowledge; The Data Horde We had a lovely 36-hour getaway helping support The Maine Island Trail Association (MITA), so today’s newsletter is both late and brief! Not much exposition, as all three resources are fairly self-explanatory. Back to the normal blatherings Friday! Snipe-IT I’m a big fanboi of “Software Bill of Materials” (SBOM).…

My Embeddings Are My Passport; The ALAN Parsers Project; Million Mile Mexapixels My Embeddings Are My Passport (YouTube ancient reference hint for the readers who are youngsters.) Despite promises of the forthcoming demise of “the password” we’re likely going to be in password Hades for quite some time. You can (and should!) use a password…

GCC Rust; Calibre 6.0; Substrait GCC Rust The GNU Project started out in 1984 with a goal of building a UNIX-like operating system. Operating systems need components to be usable, and you have likely used or heard about programs such as Make (a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of…

The Future is Now; Talon; Ruffle The Future is Now Apologies for leading with a fairly disturbing report over at the Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET) that’s fully titled: “The Future is Now: The Use of 3D-Printed Guns by Extremists and Terrorists“. GNET is a special project setup by the International Center for…