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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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  • Bonus Drop #111 (2026-02-22): Screech • Spruce Up • Sandbox

    The weekend Bonus Drop covers three key topics: an AWK script simulating a Bell 103 modem for data exfiltration, the revamped Go 1.26 ‘go fix’ tool enhancing code modernization, and Scraping Sandbox, an open-source web scraping platform offering a playground for developers to practice with synthetic e-commerce data in a “modern” site.

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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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  • Drop #771 (2026-02-12): System Of a [Mark]Down

    Today’s Drop introduces md-browse, a markdown-first web browser that converts web pages to clean markdown for better readability. It utilizes electrobun (also covered today) for lightweight cross-platform app building and Turndown (also covered today!) for HTML to markdown conversion.

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  • Drop #769 (2026-02-09): Mostly Mail And Meetings

    Today’s Drop discusses two tools in the Google Workspace ecosystem: gog, a CLI that simplifies API access for Gmail and other services + msgvault, a local Gmail archiver enabling offline analysis using DuckDB; It also covers duckdb-oast, a community extension for analyzing OAST domains.

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