hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

mold; Wails; Oblivious HTTP mold mold is “a faster drop-in replacement for existing Unix linkers. It is several times faster than the LLVM lld linker, the second-fastest open-source linker which I originally created a few years ago. mold is designed to increase developer productivity by reducing build time, especially in rapid debug-edit-rebuild cycles.” I’m willing to bet…

Fugitive Emissions; Plasmo; Tauri 1.0 Fugitive Emissions It’s likely obvious by now that I’m a big fan of NASA’s Earth Observatory. I’m regularly in awe of the diverse views their satellites provide of our tiny (in the grand scheme of things) blue marble. Sometimes said awe devolves into lesser emotions when NASA’s images paint bleak figures…

dot; Roslingifier; JSONPath dot Before diving into “dot”, I think it would be helpful if you did a quick read about a process called “KYC”, which stands for “Know Your Client”. The folks at Stoke did a decent job explaining it. We’ll be here when you get back. Back? Good! Now, on to dot, which…

Starboard; quicktype; Accidental Bolides Starboard (For a person who is ostensibly not-a-fan of notebooks, I sure do talk about them a bit.) Starboard [GH] is “an in-browser literate notebook, developed by Guido Zuidhof (@protoduction), that is extendable, sharable and hackable.” You may recall a few newsletter editions featuring Observable notebooks, and Starboard is similar in…

Protonmaps; Stateful Counting; Hetty Protonmaps We talked a bit about cartography last time, introducing Felt, a slick, collaborative cartography platform. But, what if you just need a map and don’t want to rely on any third party, save your web hosting provider? Back in March, Brandon Liu (@bdon) posted this article,“Rethinking the Free Tier for…

Observable Clustering; Felt; Rulex Observable Clustering I saw @timelyprotfolio retweet this: and just had to include it in today’s edition. The link in the tweet goes to an Observable notebook made by Christoph Pahmeyer that replicates a fairly straightforward task in R — hierarchical clustering — in what amazingly is also a straightforward task in Observable-fueled…

Dolphin; Doom; HTTP “Fields Up” Dolphin Most modern, immersive video games trigger my motion sickness almost immediately, so I rarely play anything anymore. I remember having loads of fun playing games on older systems like the GameCube and Wii (et al.). I had forgotten about Dolphin — an emulator for said systems — that brings…

LÖVE, Lines; Sat; Hearing LÖVE, Lines Despite being in the TIOBE top 20, the Lua programming language doesn’t get much 💙 or press in day-to-day internet blatherings. It does get some 💛 from LÖVE, which is a framework for making 2D games in Lua. I may cover it in more depth in a future edition…

YaCy; SIMD Sort; DNS Toys YaCy I’ve harped on privacy for the past couple editions, and it occurred to me that one reason we’re in a privacy pickle is that, at some point, “the internet” transitioned from a place where an inordinate number of individuals experimented with building and hosting their own infrastructure/services to having…

Kagi (Continued); Genetic Paparazzi; Just Kagi (Continued) I briefly mentioned Kagi Search in the previous issue and wanted to spend a bit more time on it in today’s edition. Online surveillance continues to be a serious problem no matter where you are on the internet. We are tracked from app-to-app, browser-to-browser, site-to-site, even if it’s…