hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

FountryTools CLI; FontBase; Featured Foundry: Lobby24 Lots to play with in type-land, today, with coverage of a super comprehensive set of CLI font tools, a wicked-cool, cross-platform font manager, and a neat, featured foundry. TL;DR This is an AI-generated summary of today’s Drop. The first section of the blog post discusses FoundryTools CLI, a collection…

Every Chord; Atlas of Surveillance; Uninhabitable Things are about to get much worse for even more humans this week. NPR had a decent piece with even more resources on how to help the innocent victims of the ongoing atrocities. ICYMI: yesterday’s Bonus Drop covering the new Deno (TypeScript/JS) Jupyter kernel (usable in Quarto!) is free…

Consuming A New JS Jupyter Kernel Today’s title is a (major) stretch on an older idiom/proverb that ultimately reduces to: “if you desire something good or appealing, you must make the necessary effort to achieve it”. This is quite appropro, too, since today just happens to be where the planet was when your friendly neighborhood…

Adopt; Adapt; Improve “Travel mode” is coming to a close for your friendly neighborhood hrbrmstr, but he is still in the thick of it, so we’re still in “light mode” for these WPEs. So, today, instead of starting something fresh, we’re going to “modernize” a resource we covered this week. ttimer Spit & Polish We…

nbdefense; modelscan; rebuff; Perplexity.ai API We’re a week early with our ~monthly recurring glance at advancements in the gradual subjugation of humanity, but when two of my worlds collide — cybersecurity and data science — I gotta make exceptions. Plus, I’m still in travel mode — and all 3 + 1 (the last one has nothing…

ttimer; clock-tui; termdown Despite being well-baked into the Apple ecosystem, it’s far from a panacea of productivity and usability. While Apple finally gave Siri the “superpower” of managing multiple timers, Siri is still pretty horrible, and Apple does get your Siri command data in some way, shape, or form. Even if you aren’t in my tin-foil…

clui; chr; Just My Type The Drop took Indigenous People’s Day off (plus, your friendly neighbourhood hrbrmstr dealt with a harrowing drive to DE from ME on Saturday, was DoS’d by a soon-to-be 2yo grandson on Sunday, and was at a work offsite all day). However, the Typography Tuesday’s must go on! TL;DR This is…

Three Data-Driven Murder Mysteries For You To Solve With Various Tools I’m in “travel mode”, and have just made a quite harrowing trip from ME to DE (stopover to hang with #2.1) thanks to climate change — many major passageways in CT and NY were more “stream” than “road”. I am quite glad I had…

Bite-Sized Search A common idiom for projects that end up facing a web audience is for the content being presented to be searchable in some way, shape, or form. For some contexts, the browser’s handy Edit⇒Search/Find feature may work perfectly. Other contexts may require more heavy-lifting on the server-side of things, but introducing another component…

Heredocs Are Awesome; Bash/Zsh HereDoc Tutorial With Examples; Heredocs Galore Tis a lighter edition, today, as it’s been a very long week despite Thursday only just starting; and, I thought y’all might want a break from the daily resource bombardment. The [sub]titles kind of self-describe the topic of the day, so let’s dive in to…