hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

Squeak 6.0; Actually Portable Executables; Historical Meteorological Sneakernets Squeak 6.0 Before I introduce the latest version of Squeak, I first need to wax poetic about Smalltalk; except that I’ll let the Squeak Wiki do the waxing. Its four ❡, but I promise its good reading: Today’s IT industry is developing and selling lots of new…

Warpgate; Submillimeter-scale multimaterial terrestrial robots; Terraforming Mars (FOSS) A less code-heavy edition today to give y’all a break from git cloneing. Warpgate Perhaps the most ubiquitous cybersecurity problem in any organization (outside of not patching installed software) the lack of something called “network segmentation“. MITRE ATT&CK (a globally accessible knowledge base of defender resources, including adversary…

Zig; Bun; Carbonated Dust I will begin with a “Doh!”. I had not realized my VS Code Markdown → Substack’s terrible editor was dropping links that I decorated with <code> blocks (I’ll go back and add URLs to all the previous links that were dropped later this week). Zig I wanted to mention “Bun” today…

QuickJS; cmux & sslh; Sand Batteries QuickJS I 💙 programming languages of all flavours (yes, I even have a pre-revelation, two-sizes-too-small Grinch 🖤 for Python), and some of the most fun I’ve had programming these past few decades has involved language and compiler design/implementation. I’d venture to say that most coders have no idea just…

fswatch; sandbox-exec; aws-nuke I’m technically still on holiday, so this is a bit more lightweight edition than normal. Back to the usual babblings Tuesday! fswatch This isn’t exactly “new”, but I am regularly surprised at how few folks know about fswatch, a tool and library that monitors filesystem locations for changes. It’s likely easier to…

JSON Visio; Espanso; Bull***t Charts Reminder: we are on holiday next week. Further reminder: 🇺🇸 liberal democracy suffered some major blows, again, this week. Try not to sit on the sidelines if you’re a citizen. JSON Visio JSON Visio [GH] is “data visualization tool [created by Aykut Saraç (@aykutsarach) ] for your JSON data which…

Secrets; q; Hurl Secrets Full-disclosure: When 1Password went all stupid lazy and moved from native OS apps to wrapping entire web browsers to present simple user-interfaces, I ditched them. In truth, I also ditched them due to how much they seem to hate macOS systems administrators, forcing them to do some tricks to get the…

Davies’ Maps; ReadySet; Viddy Davies’ Maps If you regularly cruise the javascript data visualization parts of the internet, you’ve very likely seen the handiwork of Jason Davies (@jasondavies). From word clouds, to bullet charts (I think we really need to rename this chart type), and nearly every cool thing in-between, Davies has applied his maths…

MarkWhen; netop; The Connected Abode: Preface MarkWhen It’s not often that I come across a new toy and has pretty much all the features I want present and accounted for with no need for some extra hacking. MarkWhen [GH], by self-described “technologist” Rob Koch, ticks all the boxes for me when it comes to producing…

Spinners; Between The Darkness And The Light; Smarter Encryption Spinners Most of us have blazing fast processors connected to glowing rectangles of various sizes. Similarly, most of us also have wicked fast internet speeds. Yet, we still wait quite a bit when performing any online task. Forms take time for back end systems to process;…