hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

Fantasy Map Generator; Deorum; Armoria “Let’s give it a good shake and SEE WHAT FALLS OUT!!” After this 380 Drop-day journey together (416, total, with the Bonus Drops), one might come to the errant conclusion that your friendly neighborhood hrbrmstr has no time for silly things like games. While it is true that I prioritize…

git commit folders; Grist; Flyscrape Today we look at how to get easy access to old, committed data in git repos, discover my replacement for EtherCalc, and try out a new way to scrape data from the web. TL;DR This is an AI-generated summary of today’s Drop. Now I’m just “the author” to Perplexity. o_O…

Making A Font; Serif Fonts For Coding; Featured Foundry: SIL International Today we transition from turkeys back to typography with a peek at how to make a font, a category of coding fonts that is far too lonely, and a pretty cool foundry that does great work around the globe. TL;DR This is an AI-generated…

HTML First; CSS Grid Complete; Validate Like A W3C Boss I trust everyone had either an amenable U.S. holiday celebration or managed to avoid social media posts from those of us broadcasting our tales of food and drama. My plans for de-screening went awry, and I ended up using the break from these Drops to…

Engrossing Mobile Shield (esm.sh); “Excuse me, I gotta take this…”; The End Of (Arguing) Guides Happy 🦃-Eve to the Drop’s U.S. readers! Thanksgiving is usually a time spent with family, but we all know how quickly such engagements can go pear-shaped. $RELATION gets into a political debate that ruins dinner or your other $RELATION won’t…

Inter 4.0; font-variation-settings; Featured Foundry: The League of Moveable Type The release of Inter 4.0 made an already great week that much better, so it was super fun to be able to post about it today, along with some other resources to help y’all find some new fonts, and make use of the features of…

good-cat; which which is which; less is more Redundancies are fine when it comes to file storage, networking, power, etc. But do we really need them at the CLI? Today, we root out some of these redundancies and see that there may, indeed, be room for them all in our filesystems. Only one external resource…

WebR In Observable; WebR In Node.JS; Yew Due to time constraints last week there was no WPE again, so everyone gets the Bonus Drop. This Bonus Drop is also late because of the topic in the first section. We’re going to look at three WASM/JS projects that underscore my assertion that a good chunk of…

Prompt Engineering Guide; Steak-umm Deepsteaks; Insanely Fast Whisper CLI; Have Barometer, Will Work For Food There’s more than a 70% chance your Friendly Neighborhood hrbrmstr will be taking both 🦃 days off next week, so we’re doing the ~monthly AI edition a tad early. TL;DR This is an AI-generated summary of today’s Drop. And, miraculously,…

Epoch Times; Netsurfer Digest (via π); Modernized MOTD ASCII Art Fear not! The first section is most assuredly not about the Nazi site. The other day, I read two articles that got me all nostalgic, and that — combined with Tuesday’s tick to 1.7 billion (see said non-Nazi site section) — means you get today’s…