hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

Featured Font: Monaspace; webfont; The Monks Are Still Safe (For Now) Apologies in advance for the length of, and rant in, the first section. TL;DR This is an AI-generated summary of today’s Drop. The blog post introduces a new monospaced type superfamily called Monaspace, developed by GitHub Next. The post discusses the unique features of…

json-schema-generator; v8r; json_diff I suspect I am not the only one who deals with massive quantities of JSON on a regular basis. One particular bit of JSON is quite central to the data workflows where I work, and I have become even more fond of JSON correctness than I was when I headed up the…

Terminal Graphics; Terminal Cartography; Terminal Data[vis] I spend way more time in the terminal these days. Once there, I really do not like the mental shift required to get back to a browser. So, today, I’m Dropping three resources that have helped me say firmly fixed in terminal land for some likely surprising use cases.…

Fonts In Use; fnt; Featured Font: Overpass “Dude in a careless hurry messes up Substack scheduler again.” Apologies. I was barely online outside of work-related tasks, yesterday, and failed to notice the lack of a publish event. As a result, the Wednesday edition will be coming out tomorrow, but I’ll add a planned resource from…

capture-website & Friends; Sample Capture Script; gowitness The Bonus Drop is still coming, but it took way longer to get #4 outfitted with a new suit + accouterments than I thought it would, and the daft “Fall Back” hit my SAD a bit harder than expected. The aforementioned suit-purchasing was for #4’s Senior Picture day.…

Map Modification So, the decision to try to dedicate some time to the 30-Day Map Challenge likely was super daft. It’s part of the reason for the tardiness of the WPE. It, again, ate into the free wee hours time, and the fam got my (unusually) scant few intraday break periods on Friday. This is…

CVECrowd; Day 2: Lines 😣; Slack Dumper I try to limit both R and cyber sections in these Drops since I could easily fill each edition with content only from those areas. I started these newsletters to showcase things that can totally be used in either ecosystem, and to drop some R and cyber content…

GPSJam; Mapping a World of Cities; Mapping Wind Data With R It’s #300DayMapChallenge month! You can follow along with my entries (NOTE: it is unlikely there will be one for each challenge day) over at a new subdomain I set up. We’ll take a clue from the start of the challenge and talk a bit…

The Ideal Line Height; Wezterm’s CLI Font Introspection; Font Drop: Geist The first section is a bit of a wonkish dive into optimizing font line height/width for a given text+context. It’s paired with a neat utility for spelunking fonts on your system, and closed out with a pair of new free typefaces and a deep…

Anki; Other Flashcard Systems; General Flashcard Tips Perhaps Gandalf would have done better in Moria if he had used flashcards to memorize which way to go at any given junction. Fundamentally, flashcards are…cards. Each card in a deck has a question on one side and the answer on the flip side. They’re a classic tool…