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  • Drop #424 (2024-02-20): Typography Tuesday

    Andy Kirk’s Visualizing Data newsletter is recommended for its quality. Max Esnée’s web app, Stack & Justify, automates the creation of type specimens, saving time and inspiring creativity in typeface design. BlockFace, a modular typography printing kit by Will Mower, bridges digital and physical creative processes. Glyph of the Day, a blog by Kate Sherwood,…

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  • Drop #418 (2024-02-09): Weekend Project Edition

    Your Own Private Ephemeris CLI We spent some time talking about, well, time, this week; specifically, times of various ephemeris. While each of the sections in Drop #416 had a CLI component, we don’t need to settle for someone else’s vision of how things should work! So, today, we’ll use a starter Golang project to…

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  • Drop #405 (2024-01-22): Back In The Saddle

    Today, we cover the introduction of three utilities. Puddy helps compare public DNS resolver results, WebGrep is a Python tool to search and analyze web pages, and fast-rustup speeds up Rust’s rustup setup by running component installs in parallel, significantly reducing installation time. Each tool provides efficient solutions to specific tech-related challenges, enhancing user experience.

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  • Drop #403 (2024-01-11): Join The Cheat [Sheet] Commandos

    The post reflects on adapting to new normals, encouraging positive framing of situations, and the use of cheat sheets to manage tech tasks. It provides links to interactive cheat sheets for HTML/CSS/JS and promotes SheCodes’ free coding resources. It also suggests a Go cheat sheet for those new to Golang.

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  • Drop #402 (2024-01-10): Hoarding Can Be A Good Thing

    Monolith; Archivematica Just two resources, today, as $WORK and #2.1 have encroached on the cycles usually reserved for personal research this week. I spend an inordinate amount of time archiving and preserving content from the web and other places. Not just for these Drops, but also for the work I do fighting the good fight in cyber…

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  • Drop #396 (2024-01-02): Typography Tuesday

    3×3; Writing A TrueType Font Renderer Just two resources on this topmost Typography Tuesday tome, as ＃2.1 decided to invade the early AM usual’s quiet time by deciding that “Yes, I’m up, now, Pampa”. The second resource should keep you engaged for quite some time if you’re keen to dig in a bit. TL;DR This…

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