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  • Drop #782 (2026-08-26): Catechize, Complete, & Count

    Today’s Drop discusses three neat CLI tools to enhance shell skills, tame code, and manage system processes. Witr identifies the lineage of running processes; zcomplete corrects shell commands based on typed command history; and, scc provides efficient line counting for codebases while offering analytical features like complexity assessments.

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  • Bonus Drop #123 (2026-07-19): Am I Bot Or Not?

    The Weekend Bonus Drip explores the evolving bot landscape, focusing on the Known Agents directory that tracks over 2,000 AI crawlers and scrapers. It highlights recent regulatory changes, like New York’s Stealth Crawler Act and EDPB guidelines, which emphasize crawler identification for compliance. Additionally, it discusses post-quantum TLS as a new bot detection method.

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  • Drop #778 (2026-05-05): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s sleep-deprived-originated Typography Tuesday features Lilex, a ligature-enhanced font, and D.I.Y. ’75, a typewriter font derived from 1970s fanzine materials. It also highlights FontBob’s interactive game that teaches type design through hands-on practice, encouraging users to create and optically correct their own alphabets.

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  • Bonus Drop #113 (2026-04-19): A Safety Throughline

    Managed to crank out another Bonus Drop after a firehose of an onboarding week @ Censys. Today, we’ve got Kula, a Linux server monitoring tool that emphasizes security with deliberate mitigation measures. Also: SSH certificates improve key management, addressing the flaws of public key systems. Finally, an iTerm2 bug demonstrates vulnerabilities in terminal emulators, highlighting…

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  • Drop #776 (2026-02-25): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses the role of typography as a uniquely human design element amidst an advancing “AI” landscape. It emphasizes that tools like “AI” struggle to replicate the nuance and cultural significance of human-crafted typefaces. Featured fonts include Television Sans, inspired by 1980s ads, and Sobremesa, designed for warmth and comfort.

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  • Drop #774 (2026-02-20): Let’s Get Visual

    Today’s themed! Drop features 2 spiffy CSS resources and a rly cool tool. Modern CSS Code Snippets compares legacy and modern CSS patterns; ASCII Silhouettify converts images to ASCII art; and CSS Doodle is for creating generative art using CSS-like rules.

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  • Drop #774 (2026-02-19): Secured, Saved, Savvied, and Sublimed

    Today’s theme-less Drop discusses 4 topics: dotenvx, an enhanced .env management tool that improves security and multi-environment support; factbook.json, a project preserving the CIA World Factbook as structured JSON; and alpinestuff, a resource for learning Alpine.JS. Kanso Ink is also mentioned, offering terminal theme configurations.

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  • Drop #772 (2026-02-16): Editorially Speaking

    Today’s Drop takes a big look at Vim 9.2’s release and finally pokes at Fresh, a new Rust-built terminal editor that offers an intuitive editing experience with tmux-like session persistence and robust features like LSP integration and lazy loading.

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  • Bonus Drop #110 (2026-02-14): Talk About The Weather

    Today’s Drop discusses three tools: Kaku, a macOS WezTerm fork enhancing ergonomics; Pake, a Tauri tool creating cross-platform desktop apps from URLs; and Fair Weather, a vanilla JS weather app scoring activities based on conditions.

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  • Drop #768 (2026-02-05): Docs & Diagrams

    Today’s Drop covers the release of Pandoc 3.9, whcih features a WASM build for client-side document processing, enhanced PDF support and configuration flexibility with JSON. It also pokes at mermaid-rs-renderer, a Rust-based tool for rendering Mermaid diagrams in various formats, and introduces Pretty Mermaid Skills which allows LLMs to generate and render Mermaid syntax into…

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