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  • Bonus Drop #84 (2025-05-31): Shop^w Infer Local With Context

    Today’s Bonus Drop discusses the integration of an MCP server within a local Ollama workflow for improved contextual inference. It emphasizes the importance of model selection, particularly favoring qwen2.5-coder for its performance and context handling. The MCP paradigm enhances modularity and flexibility, streamlining tool calling processes while maintaining conversation state effectively. Includes links to working…

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  • Drop #649 (2025-05-05): A Python State Of Mind

    Today’s Drop discusses 3 Python (yes…*python*) projects: Docling, a library focused on accurate document processing; Notary, which generates badges to verify the provenance of Python packages on PyPI; and CVE Search MCP, a server for querying CVE data. Each serves distinct roles in enhancing software reliability and security.

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  • Drop #648 (2025-05-02): Happy FridAI!

    Today’s Drop discusses the integration of MCP protocol with AI tools like llama3.2, oterm, Context7, and Zed AI to enhance coding assistance and information retrieval. It emphasizes MCP’s role in structured data interaction, Context7’s up-to-date documentation for better coding accuracy, and Zed AI’s robust features, highlighting the evolution and benefits of these technologies in AI-assisted…

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  • Drop #647 (2025-05-01): Toss-Up Thursday

    Today’s theme-less Drop covers two projects: Bluefish, a web diagramming framework emphasizing relations for flexible diagram creation, and Quartz, a static-site generator focused on Markdown support and speed. It discusses experiences with LLMs, warnings about misleading outputs, and mentions innovative protections against malicious bots using zip bombs.

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  • Drop #645 (2025-04-29): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s edition of the Drop explores typographic infrastructure, highlighting IKEA’s journey from traditional fonts to modern self-hosting solutions. It also presents FontDiffuser, a framework that enhances font generation through innovative diffusion techniques. The featured free font, Costaline, balances contemporary elegance with classic elements, offering diverse styles and multilingual support.

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  • Drop #644 (2025-04-28): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop covers Wave, a versatile terminal combining command-line and graphical features with AI integration; Geolocus, an open IP geolocation database offering physical and logical location data; and Lichen, a Rust-based tool for managing software license files and headers. Each tool aims to enhance productivity and accessibility.

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  • Drop #643 (2025-04-22): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of The Drop highlights new developments and challenges in font design. Key points include Microsoft’s Kermit typeface aimed at aiding children with dyslexia, the issues related to thin fonts causing accessibility problems, and the declining status of the em dash due to AI overuse in writing, threatening typographic culture.

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  • Drop #640 (2025-04-17): Twisted Topics Thursday

    Today’s Drop discusses MotherDuck’s #DuckDB Model Context Protocol server with a walk through a look at my sensor network data. It further highlights the rise of automated bots, which now constitute 51% of web traffic, and, lastly, emphasizes the privacy concerns surrounding modern web browsers’ telemetry practices.

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  • Drop #638 (2025-04-14): You Call That A Theme?

    Today’s cobbled together themed Drop sports Browser MCP, a tool that integrates LLMs with web browsers for automation tasks; Arc Export which helps convert pinned tabs from the Arc browser to HTML bookmarks, and a D2 extension for Zed, w/a bonus link to Jumping River’s excellent low-down on R’s 4.5.0 release.

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  • Drop #635 (2025-04-09): Happy WednesdAI!

    Today’s “AI”-centric edition of the Drop focuses on the “Model Context Protocol” (MCP). This new, standardized integration system for LLM/GPT-ops enhances data connectivity and addresses prior fragmentation. However, it significantly lacks security measures, making it vulnerable to command injection and tool poisoning. Practical examples, including a Star Wars API implementation, highlight MCP’s potential while also…

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