hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

How to prompt Code Llama; An AI capitalism primer; BERT For Laptops It feels like it’s been a minute since I did a ThursdAI edition, but that’s only due to September compressing the time stream, at least here in Southern Maine (where did this month go?). Today’s section mirepoix is of mix of practical and…

OpenSource.net; HFS; Introducing Ghostty and Some Useful Zig Patterns The left thumb is still on the mend (typing left-CMD and hitting the spacebar w/it are both verbotten, sigh), so I took the opportunity to steer folks to another, new-ish site for the first section, and have slightly fewer characters-per-section for the other two. Hoping this…

☠️ Raidin’ the Pirate Fonts of typOasis; Font Piracy Is Real; Treasuring Types When the stars and planets align to have a Typography Tuesday fall on TLAP Day, you gotta believe I’m gonna double down on it. Oh, and a comp’d sub to the Bonus Drops for the first reply here, in email, or on…

A Rosetta (Stone) For Docker; Search For The Fediverse; Yurt Yearnings; Odds & Ends The thumb is better but still on the mend. So, I’m releasing another Bonus Drop from the archive. Typography Tuesday should still be on for tomorrow. 🤞🏽 This is the second bonus drop for folks who have been amazingly kind and…

Checking CSVs; Lightweight CSV SQL Ops The fairly dreadful symptoms of my thumb paronychia are subsiding (🙏🏽), but typing is still just enough of a chore that y’all are getting two resources this time ’round. However, one also introduces a new companion project to the Daily Drop! Resources covered: mechatroner/RBQL: 🦜RBQL – Rainbow Query Language:…

task-spooler; nq; pueue Despite all of us essentially having supercomputers adorning our wrists, shoved in our pockets, and sitting on our desks/laps, far too many things that execute on them take time. You know what I mean. That cargo install you thought would be quick, but stalls your active terminal session much longer than you…

CyberChef; cryptii; Ciphereditor I was going to ditch today’s theme/content (well, reassign it to another day) after learning about Mosaic yesterday, but we’ll save Mosaic for Friday (it’s “bigger than a breadbox”). Today, we look at three (well, “2”, really…you’ll see) tools that operate solely in a local browser context (after loading), and that enable…

The New Google Fonts; Wavefont; Variable Fonts Explorer We’re going to follow some breadcrumbs through each section, today; leading us from one site to another. It should be a fun and informative journey for all type nerds. TL;DR This is an AI-generated summary of today’s Drop. (Perplexity messed up all the URLs, today.) The New…

For folks who did not 👀 the Bonus Drop (free for all!) over the weekend, but are still somewhat concerned over Google’s rollout of their laughable “Privacy Sandbox” (it is anything but that), you can use this checker I built to see if your Chrome configs need some tweaking. No TL;DR, today, as we’re taking…

Alt-ls; Alt-man; Sociopathic Sandboxes Bonus Drops are normally “paywalled”. But, today’s is going out to all readers: (a) to partially make up for the unexpected hiatus the other week, and (b) because I’m including some important information about Google’s Privacy Sandbox (along with a checkup tool) that warrants sharing to a wider audience. The first…