hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

Caching Quality Of Life Improvements This edition is primarily about one recent project of mine, but there are a few other resource links after the jump in case you care not about writing an API caching proxy in Go. NIST maintains the National Vulnerability Database, which is a repository of standards-based vulnerability management data represented…

Aren’t You The Dash[board]ing One?! Dashboarding has come to Quarto land! So, today we dive into that a bit and give you a choice between TWO WPE assignments (one is for folks who care not about dashboards). Quarto Dashboards Dashboarding has come along for the ride with Typst in the bleeding-edge zone (v1.4) of the…

Embeddings; Jina; Moral^W IRL Hazards I couldn’t bring myself to prepend the usual “Happy” before the tagline today given the (⚠️ content warning: that link goes to a story about America’s favorite sport ⇒ yet another mass shooting) horrendous news out of Lewiston, Maine that I woke up to, today. No “AI” summary, today, too,…

paclear; oneko 🐈 neko; bandit Our shared timeline (which may be the worst timeline ever) is fraught with peril, and we seem to be only adding more chaos and calamity each week. While my level of “doomscrolling” is significantly reduced (one thing I can thank Musk for, I guess) there is plenty of doom thrust…

The Compact Font Format (CFF); A Brief Excursion Into OpenType; Featured Font: Gilbert We’re back in typography wonk territory in this week’s TT installment, taking an in-depth look at the modern font format you very likely use multiple times every day. Hopefully, it will demystify what’s in those font files y’all love to hoard. TL;DR…

IEEE VIS 2023; Simply Placeholders; A Single Div Cleverness has eluded me on this gray, Maine Monday (y’all might argue it does most days), hence the bland tagline for today’s edition. But, it does the job, since those are the topics we’ll be hitting today. TL;DR This is an AI-generated summary of today’s Drop. Perplexity…

BYOS; Terminal Decks; Turing Streams I’ll never miss an opportunity to see #2.1, and he and his parents got just close enough to the Maine compound to warrant a trek into NY state to help him celebrate his bday (early) and his soon-to-be brother’s baby shower. As such, your travel weary hrbrmstr has no theme…

Touch Typst-ing We covered Typst back in March, but the team behind Typst has been super busy, as has the Quarto team. If you’re willing to run the bleeding edge of Quarto, they’ve assimilated the Typst binary into the Quarto CLI and have nascent Qmd support for it. This is possible because the venerable Pandoc…

Thorium; nushell; yavascript My spouse & I are intermittently re-watching Fringe, so I occasionally drift into thoughts of alternate universes, these days, especially since our particular timeline is fairly awful rn. But, there’s more than one way to freshen up our experience on whatever Earth # this happens to be. One path for that journey…

LiDAR Primer; Visualizing LiDAR Data; CATS On Plumes, Wildfires, And Hurricanes; 🌕 LiDAR Yesterday’s 🏥 bombing, and fog-of-war blame tossing for it has your friendly neighborhood hrbrmstr in less than stellar spirits, today. I suspect that may be the case for many readers, so I put together some more “exploring” resources to help you get…