hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

Zellij; Wasm Command-Line Playground: jq; Stargate Alive W00t! I figured out how to do custom domains for this Substack thing. You can now hit dailyfinds.hrbrmstr.dev (or keep using the original URL). Zellij I find it both amazing and awesome that there continues to be innovation in spaces such as text editors and terminal programs. Just when you…

In The Dark; Five Tips For Making More Accessible Visualizations; Privacy Tools (NOTE: I’m cheating a bit re: “scraping theme” this week.) In The Dark You can’t collect/scrape data over the internet if you don’t have internet access, and I’m not talking about the lack of equity in service availability/quality in rural parts of the…

Hello, Observable!; Scraping TikTok; Warp’s Commands.dev Hello, Observable! The universe of data visualization (“datavis” from now on to save me some keystrokes) owes a major debt of gratitude to Mike Bostock (@mbostock), inventor of D3, a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. It is almost impossible to go a day on the internet without…

“China” Was Really A Euphemism For “Alabama” This Whole Time; Scraping Your Own Network: WebStor & Rumble; Monster Mars Quake “China” Was Really A Euphemism For “Alabama” This Whole Time This week, Riana Pfefferkorn, of Stanford Law School, posted an article arguing that the “gloves need to come off” with regard to the encryption debate, specifically in the United States,…

Get Internet; The Incredible, Shrinking Web; Mining Microdata Get Internet (Note: this is heavily U.S. focused.) Yesterday, The U.S. White House did a full court press pimping the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), which provides eligible households $30 per month off their internet bills. If you’re in the U.S. and follow tech news or politics, you likely…

Archiving URLs; CopyChar; Whoa[.css] Archiving URLs Fundamentally, my job involves studying the internet. At my soon-to-be former employer, I essentially ended up counting IP addresses based on certain classification parameters. A core component of that task involves, to a large degree, web scraping, since the content at those IP addresses is used in many classification…

Frictionless Standards; How To Have Better 1:1’s; Fagan Finder Remember: this is installment one of two, today. Frictionless Standards Frictionless is an open-source toolkit that “brings simplicity to the data experience – whether you’re wrangling a CSV or engineering complex pipelines.” I’ll likely cover the entire toolkit at some point, but today I’d like to introduce their Frictionless Standards,…

Moar CLI Data Wrangling; The Laws of Simplicity; The gif Gallery Apologies for two missed days. This is my penultimate week at my current employer and Wednesday was the day the establishment announced it, so it was more than a tad stressful. Yesterday was rather selfish, as it was the perfect weather here in southern…

On {groundhog}s And Reproducible R Research; Uncurled; Kat’s Mastodon Quickstart for Twitter Users On {groundhog}s And Reproducible R Research A recent blog post titled, “Groundhog: Addressing The Threat That R Poses To Reproducible Research” appeared on the scene and has quite a stir in part of the R language social sphere. The article is short,…