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  • Drop #788 (2026-10-20): Ink & Insert Mode

    Today’s Drop features Lilly, a terminal editor inspired by Vim, Sumi.css, a classless CSS framework for efficient styling, and Tegaki, a library that animates fonts in handwriting style.

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  • Drop #786 (2026-10-13): Tuesday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop discusses modern browser fingerprinting techniques, the State of Devs survey for 2026, and the need for simpler web development practices. It highlights concerns about job insecurity and burnout among developers, mixed feelings about AI, and critiques the overly complex web development processes. A humorous site emphasizes returning to basic HTML.

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  • Bonus Drop #130 (2026-10-11): Hodepodge Edition

    The weekend Bonus Drop tries to make up for the Drop gap and discusses various updates, including the transition of the main rud[.]is blog to an Astro 7 static site and new features in Bootstrap version 6. It features a free font, Paper Mono, and reflects on Deno being acquired by Cloudflare, highlighting the challenges…

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  • Drop #786 (2026-09-20): zsh Modules

    The weekend Drop is all about a feature of Zsh you are likely using, but not aware you are, and how you can use it to robustify your shell game: zsh modules. You’ll learn how to wield them well and improve performance of your scripts, tap into Zsh’s networking capabilities, and even use it to…

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  • Drop #785 (2026-09-14): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    In today’s Drop, we cover Homebrew 7.0.0 — parallel installs, native brew vulns scanning, Linux Landlock sandboxing, Intel Macs demoted to Tier 3 — plus my new brew-sploits wrapper that flags which CVEs actually have public exploits, and a shell script beefer-upper-er and forensics tour of stat, readlink, command, file, ldd, and friends for answering…

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  • Drop #784 (2026-09-07): What The Shell?

    Today’s Drop discusses useful tools for Bash scripting and terminal operations. It goes deep on the ‘declare’ command in Bash, explaining its various attributes for variable assignment. Additionally, it presents ‘rura,’ an interactive Rust terminal UI for building shell pipelines, and ‘mdfried,’ a terminal pager for viewing markdown files that supports enhanced formatting and image…

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  • Drop #783 (2026-08-27): Back In The Highlight Again

    The is-there-really-another-in-week-Drop?! showcases MicroLighter, an innovative syntax highlighter that enhances code editing while preserving the DOM; HTML advancements including new attributes that reduce JavaScript reliance; and Manuel Matuzović’s updated HTML Boilerplate for 2026, which offers comprehensive templates with modern features for web development.

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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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  • Drop #781 (2026-08-25): Tuesday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop highlights a few recent discoveries: Deepfield IP Checker, HTML-XML-utils, and MapTheNet. It describes how Deepfield’s IP Checker reveals if an IP has participated in DDoS attacks, while HTML-XML-utils provides utilities to manipulate HTML/XML files. MapTheNet explores web traffic through a unique classification approach.

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  • Bonus Drop #128 (2026-08-23): It’s Always DNS

    The weekend Bonus Drop discusses several advanced DNS resources, focusing on ptrclassify, which categorizes IP addresses efficiently using structured tagging for traffic analysis. It introduces the new HTTPS DNS record type that enhances HTTP/3 connectivity and touches on dnstt, a tool for DNS tunneling.

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