hrbrmstr's Daily Drop

  • Drop #669 (2025-06-23): Monday Morning (Barely) Grab Bag

    The Monday Drop discusses 3 main topics: a Rube Goldberg-inspired data pipeline to archive X posts into #DuckDB, the #RStats package {fplot} for automating distribution plot creation in R, and an article from CSS-Tricks on advanced CSS color techniques, detailing color spaces and models for modern web development.

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  • Drop #628 (2025-03-26): Web-Slinging Wensday

    Today’s Drop discusses two new packages, hmmfetch and {headrs}, designed to generate realistic HTTP headers for #JavaScript and #RStats respectively, aiding developers in avoiding detection from automated traffic. Additionally, Anthony Fu promotes transitioning to ESM-only packages, highlighting the growth of ESM adoption and addressing challenges of dual CJS/ESM formats in JavaScript development.

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  • Bonus Drop #79 (2025-03-16): Weekend Hodge Podge

    The Weekend Bonus Drop covers Prettier, an opinionated code formatter ensuring consistent style across programming languages, and Krep, a fast C-based string search tool outperforming traditional utilities. It also includes updates to the {hrbrthemes} #RStats package.

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  • Drop #609 (2025-02-20): The “Not Everything Is Horrible In 2025” Drop

    Today’s un-horrible Drop covers a cool Typst package to use Markdown for content and introduces Typst’s new preliminary support for HTML output. It closes with some Datawrapper and #RStats crunchy goodness.

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  • Drop #579 (2024-12-19): Favicons wRapped

    Today’s Drop helps us wrap up a year of browsing datat and provides methods to access browsing history from SQLite databases in #RStats to make a more visual view of all the time we wasted staring at glowing rectangles.

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