hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

Dragonfly; FastFEC; Kagi Search It’s been a soul-crushing week in the U.S. provided one actually still has any humanity left in them. Hopefully, one or all of these resources will help take your mind off even one of the many tragic events that have occurred. Dragonfly There are many in-memory datastores to choose from these…

A Mosaic of Meaning; An X-Ray for Relationships; Cause For All Armed A Mosaic of Meaning It is a humbling thought to realize just how much we humans still do not know about, well, anything. New insights from the vastness of the cosmos regularly delight, amaze, and confuse us. The true depths of the oceans…

sqliteviz; logseq; The Nimatron sqliteviz While I’m likely going to be a “native app” proponent 4eva, browser-based apps do make tools widely accessible, which is important, especially for democratizing access to educational resources. While sqliteviz is not necessarily purely an educational resource, it provides direct and offline access to databases, SQL queries, and data visualization…

Will Be Wild; Truthers: Tiffany Dover Is Dead; Signals Well, first week at a new job + speaking at an in-person conference for the first time in ~3 years + multiple tragic events/news in the U.S. this past week really disrupted the M-F cadence, and I suspect that said cadence will continue to be hit-and-miss…

Picture [Im]Perfect Tables; [Fuzzy] Space Age seD; Static Visualizations I’m making today “Twitter Tuesday” (a.k.a. light commentary with links to tweets or threads) since I have a boatload of onboarding left at Day 2 of my new job at GreynNoise Intelligence and zonked kind of early last night. Picture [Im]Perfect Tables Yesterday, the Financial Times’…

Comic Code; Organized Colours; Oreology Comic Code Today is day 1 of re-employment for me at GreyNoise Intelligence. I chronicled my week of “funemployment” on Twitter, but I did not go into some of the daily minutiae involved in putting auld lang syne[1],[2] behind me. Some changes were physically “big”, such as rearranging a bit…

I Have The Power[line]!; Chartwell; ALL YOUR [GAME] FONTS ARE BELONG TO US Somewhat less expository today as it’s the final day of the “work week” funemployment and tis a great chilly Maine Spring day for a long bike ride. I Have The Power[line]! I start my new adventure this coming Monday and the benevolent…

Location, Location, Location; DNS Bakeoff; Where To Go To Be Scene Topics gravitated towards a “location” theme today, where we’ll learn a bit about getting maths (and other things) in your browser’s location bar, checking out a public DNS resolver Fight Club, and finding the places where Hollywood (et. al.) goes on Earth to shoot…

Tart; Play This PDF; Space Ball. BONUS: “A Byte of Coding” Alex from “A Byte of Coding” dropped me a note letting me know that they were featuring my recent “Escaping Groundhog Day” blog post in their newsletter today, and I thought a reciprocal link to them was the least I could do in return.…

Leonardo; Seeing With Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth; Colors Of The Year Leonardo In “Envisioning Information“, Edward Tufte penned this oft-quoted opine regarding the act of choosing colors: “avoiding catastrophe becomes the first principle in bringing color to information: Above all, do no harm.” Choosing colors, in general, is hard (just ask any couple endlessly perusing swatches at…