hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #687 (2025-07-31): A Trio Of Timely Topics

    Today’s Drop features three significant resources: Observable Desktop & Notebook Kit 2.0 enhances local notebook functionality for easier deployment, while Jono Alderson’s piece critiques the shifting focus of SEO from URLs to assertions for digital authority. Additionally, a guide on integrating Bitwarden with direnv improves secure credential management in coding.

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  • Drop #686 (2025-07-29): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses the evolution and modern usage of hyphens and dashes. It highlights the complexity of hyphenation in web design, emphasizing the importance of language context for proper hyphenation. We also acquiesce to the use of en dashes over em dashes for phrase separation and introduce the dashing free font…

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  • Bonus Drop #91 (2025-07-20): Back To Basics

    The weekend Bonus Drop highlights foundational tech topics: Shell, Grid/Flex, and Regex. It emphasizes the importance of revisiting these fundamentals, providing resources for enhanced command-line skills, modern CSS layouts, and mastering regular expressions.

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  • Drop #681 (2025-07-17): Front and Center

    Today’s Drop explores 3 resources focusing on front-end technology. David Gerrells demonstrates JavaScript’s potential through a simulation of 20 million particles, while canidev.tools offers a comprehensive guide to DevTools across browsers. Jo Wood highlights modern color spaces’ importance in visual storytelling and data visualization, urging continued exploration of evolving technologies.

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  • Drop #651 (2025-05-12): Monday Morning Markup Mischief Managed

    Today’s Drop features Podfox: a container-aware browser enabling easy access to containerized environments without port conflicts; Dan Abramov’s “Functional HTML” which reimagines HTML with modern programming concepts, advocating for JSON-based markup; and, httpok: a lightweight HTTP client for executing requests easily in a code editor, providing formatted responses.

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