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Bonus Drop #124 (2026-07-26): Don’t Outsource Your Agency
This week’s anti-clanker Bonus Drop explores tools for enhancing understanding and efficiency. It highlights Daniil Baturin’s iproute2 guide, stinkpot’s simpler shell-history tool, and Filip Roséen’s article on using the POSIX shell null-command effectively. It also quick links to ~1,800 “today I learned” entries across 75 categories.
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Bonus Drop #122 (2026-07-12): Web Of Wonders
Today’s (barely in-time) Drop discusses web resources like Vilistextum, an enduring HTML-to-ASCII converter, and Freedium Mirror, which circumvents Medium’s paywall. The “Milliseconds That Matter” section showcases a project that visualizes the web page loading process in detail.
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Bonus Drop #116 (2026-05-17): Grammar of Graphics, Native in Typst
The weekend Bonus Drop covers Gribouille, a Typst package developed by the legendary Mickaël Canouil. It’s a comprehensive Grammar of Graphics implementation for Typst, rivaling ggplot2 with features like geom layering and aesthetic mapping. It enables seamless data visualization in Typst, supporting native CSV data loads and providing publication-quality charts without external dependencies.
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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 #115 (2026-05-03): Terminal Velocity
The latest (and, hopefully final only- Bonus Drop) showcases a cadre of terminal emulators, highlighting their unique features and technologies. It covers OpenWarp, Macterm, rootshell, Rio, and Foot, each with distinct attributes related to performance, design, and underlying technology. The author discusses usability for different systems, emphasizing safety and configurations while noting trends toward AI…
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Bonus Drop #114 (2026-04-26): Let’s Get Visual
Seeing is believing in the weekend Bonus Drop! Posit has launched an alpha version of ggsql, a SQL syntax extension for visualizations, allowing folks to create charts directly from SQL queries without additional programming languages. It utilizes database computation for efficiency and offers a clean interface for SQL practitioners. Additionally, chartli provides a CLI tool…
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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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Bonus Drop #112 (2026-04-12): The Drops Are (Mostly) Back!
The first Bonus Drop in quite a while has some seekrit updates and a new method for setting up S3-object storage at home using Versity S3 Gateway and Tailscale, detailing installation steps and configurations for enhanced security and accessibility.
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Drop #777 (2026-02-27): It’s Always DNS
It’s all about DNS in today’s Drop! Geoff Huston developed ipasn.net, a user-friendly DNS-based IP-to-ASN lookup service that avoids complex query formatting. Hickory DNS is a Rust-native implementation, addresses memory safety issues in traditional DNS stacks, with future production plans by Let’s Encrypt. And Miek Gieben’s revised Go DNS library boasts significant performance enhancements, optimizing…
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Drop #775 (2026-02-23): Another Regularly Expressive Drop
Today’s Drop discusses portit, a Rust TUI for managing TCP ports; MinRX, a new regex engine in GNU gawk focusing on performance and POSIX compliance; and Regexle, a puzzle game that blends Wordle mechanics with regex challenges.
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