hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

the design system ecosystem; Storybook; Color Ramps For Design Systems Tis been a spell since we’ve focused solely on the “design” side of things, so today we go on a journey from the meta to the micro as we look at design systems as a whole, then a few tools to help build various elements…

⚠️ Cloudflare Fonts; Hey, Computer, Make Me a Font; Tilt Fonts Today, we don some tin foil hats as I go all “Alex Jones” on a new font CDN, look at a way to make fonts with “AI”, and then check out some wicked cool glyphs that add some dimensions to your typographic creations. TL;DR…

Threadr; OrbStack; MurderGPT; Electron PSA We’re leaning in, once again, to the hodgepodge-enabling “multi-threaded” theme, today, since the first two topics may not have broad appeal (one deals with socmed threads, and another is only useful on macOS). I would argue, however, that said socmed thread section does present a fully working web application that…

Time; Trees; Terminals Good things come in both threes and “T”s today as we look at a “will be approved any day/week/month/year now” JavaScript standard that makes working with dates/times dead simple. We’ll also poke at a way to make beautiful SVG treemaps, and end with a peek at a remarkably clever new way to…

Textual Education Earlier this week we looked at Harlequin, a pretty spiffy new-ish terminal IDE for DuckDB. In it, I noted it was created using Textual (GH), a robust, rapid application framework for Python. Today, we poke at Textual a bit more and frame out a basic application with it that you can extend. Since…

CSS Snapshot 2023; A (more) Modern CSS Reset; Patternify; The New [Color] Defaults It’s been a minute since we’ve cozied up with some CSS crunchy goodness, so we rectify that lapse, today. As I’ve been known to drone on about, we’re all creators and HTML/CSS/JavaScript/(WASM) is the inescapable medium we are constrained to publish and…

Harlequin; MotherDuck; DuckDB Snippets & Bash One-Liners I’m pretty certain y’all know this, but DuckDB is an in-process SQL OLAP database management system that is bonkers fast, powerful, and actually pretty fun to use. Today, we look at three DuckDB-related topics, one of which I may have leaked on Mastodon the other day because it’s…

death of typography; Fontshare; iconify.design I’ve been looking forward to Dropping this Typography Tuesday on y’all for over three weeks. I’m almost certain at least one resource will be useful to every reader. TL;DR This is an AI-generated summary of today’s Drop. Perplexity did something unusual today by directly referring to the post in the…

tldts; Ada; How many IP addresses can a DNS query return? Bob Parsons (GoDaddy Founder) once said: “A domain name is your address, your address on the Internet. We all have a physical address; we’re all going to need an address in cyberspace. They’re becoming increasingly important. I believe we’ll get to the point where…

MANual Overdrive; DIY SIEM On A Budget; Cagey 📦 The injured digit is back to about 90% so plenty of life in it for a Bonus Drop this weekend and back to the regular schedule this week. There should be something for everyone, even my cyber mates. Resources covered: History of UNIX Man Pages SIEM…