hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

Wasm By Example; webR; Vintage Synths We continue our periodic focus on WebAssembly (Wasm) today with a resource that will introduce tools for and also help you learn how to compile C, Rust, Go, and AssemblyScript into Wasm for use, well, anywhere! We’ll then take a look at a project that aims to make my second favorite…

Scraping The Heap; Mars Garbage; The Columbo Cinematic Universe; Just One More Thing We’re riffing off of a few previous editions today and covering some fairly wide ground, so let’s dig in! Scraping The Heap It may be, now, legal (again?) to scrape web pages, but that doesn’t mean it is easy to do so. Many sites create…

Warp; Academic Link Usage & Rot; Scrape All The Things Warp If the 2022-04-13.01 post did not convey my 💙 for both the command line and terminal emulators, then today’s absolutely will. I recently discovered Warp (GH) and have made it my default terminal to put it through the paces of daily work. This new entrant on the terminal…

Hands-on WebAssembly (Wasm); JupyterLite; If The Model Don’t Fit You Must Acquit For the next few weeks, a fair number of posts will include topics surrounding WebAssembly (Wasm) (fret not, the first section will explain what Wasm is if the term is unfamiliar to folks). They will (mostly) follow a common format: introduce a (potentially complex) technical…

[Academic] Honeypots 🍯; Mess With DNS!; In Ganymede’s Shadow [Academic] Honeypots🍯 It turns out that #NotAllHoneypots are of the cyber variety that I work with on a nigh daily basis. The Markup — a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how powerful institutions are using technology to change our society — has a story about Honorlock, a company that: “…promises to ensure that remote students don’t…

R 4.2 Released; A Map Projection Playground; Fresh[er] Meat R 4.2 Released Last Friday was a big day in R-land. With a version bump to 4.2, the latest R language release was dropped into this cold, cruel world to brighten our days and give us some new toys to play with. I won’t burden the casual reader with a…

ShellCheck ✅; Dagger 🗡; CI/CD Design Principles The drive back from seeing #2.1 was long, and Portland (ME) airport has one runway down, so @mrshrbrmstr’s plane back from Reno to see #1 was also super delayed; thus there was no newsletter yesterday. So…you get two today! (i.e., there will be a 2022-04-22.02 in the afternoon.)…

Security Zines; Wizard Zines; Making Your Own Zines (a.k.a. “How to teach technical concepts with cartoons”.) Concept and narrative framing are crucial skills for success in practically every profession, though I’d argue even more paramount in technical disciplines. Grasping a diverse array of complex, techincal concepts can be difficult, especially if you’re relegated to paging…

Grepping “The Game” (a.k.a. Solving Wordle); Nmap for the Forgetful🐘 (a.k.a. nmapAutomator); Aliases Grepping “The Game” (a.k.a. Solving Wordle) Since the launch, Wordle, or as I call it “The Game”, has consumed grey mater cycles of large sections of the English-speaking/reading populace. You all know the premise:guess a word in six or fewer steps with hints as…