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  • Drop #543 (2024-10-20): Dev-Mode Engage

    Today’s Drop discusses the introduction of JavaScript Import Maps, allowing cleaner alias management for module imports even in vanilla JS + CDN projects, thus enhancing code cleanliness and dependency management. It also covers a microservice built with Deno to convert PDFs to text, and highlights the “pancake SQL pattern” for optimizing SQL queries using window…

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  • Bonus Drop #65 (2024-10-05): CIDR Serendipity

    The weekend Bonus Drop discusses 3 tools: cidrex, a command-line utility for expanding IP addresses and CIDR ranges; ferment, a recreation of cidrex in C that focuses on smaller binary size; and libxo, a library for generating structured output in various formats.

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  • Drop #538 (2024-10-01): Typography Tuesday

    This edition of the Drop features 3 (free!) typography projects: Font Fight!, an interactive platform for comparing coding fonts; U-Bahn Font, an open-source font inspired by Vienna’s U3 digital signage; and The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack, which offers authentic remakes of vintage PC fonts in modern formats.

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  • Bonus Drop #64 (2024-09-22): Extensionating Circumstances

    In today’s Bonus Drop we build a very basic, local-first VS Codium (also works in VS Code) extension for generating TL;DR summaries from a local Ollama prompt. Should be super straightforward to modify for other generation needs in VS Codium.

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  • Drop #534 (2024-09-23): The Great Prepender[s]

    Today’s Drop introduces two web services, ful.co and WAVE, which facilitate URL manipulation for specific tasks: extracting SVG elements and checking web accessibility, respectively. It also offers a guide on creating a custom URL prepender processing services using Deno and Hono.

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  • Drop #532 (2024-09-19): Divide and Conquer

    Today’s Drop discusses the importance of simplicity in web design, highlighting three aspects: Lorem Picsum, a flexible image placeholder service; CSS unit division for responsive designs using the calc() function; and the effectiveness of simple HTML in ensuring accessibility, particularly for public services.

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  • Drop #530 (2024-09-16): The Incredible Shrinking Web

    Size matters in today’s Drop! The internet’s bandwidth and reliability in remote areas will always be a concern, prompting the need for size and loading optimizations. Techniques like ThumbHash, BlurHash, and “Potato WebP” efficiently handle images for quick loading and limited bandwidth. cssnano optimizes CSS files for production, and Squoosh offers on-device image optimization without…

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  • Bonus Drop #62 (2024-09-15): Serverless Sunday

    The weekend Bonus Drop featurs Val Town: a cloud-based platform for coding and application development, offering serverless functions, persistence, cron job scheduling, REST API creation, and more. Additionally, there are examples of creating a CORS proxy for #CISA #KEV JSON, turning KEV JSON into Atom-flavored RSS XML, and a CRON job to email when new…

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  • Drop #529 (2024-09-13): Nomicons

    Today’s Drop has info about four technical resources: Webnomicon, Querynomicon, Sudonomicon, and “Annoying Things You Can Do With Javascript.” They cover web development, SQL, Unix systems, and annoying JavaScript practices.

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  • Bonus Drop #61 (2024-09-08): Transcrbe, Transform, and Translate

    Bonus Drop #61 covers yt-transcribe, a macOS script for easy YouTube transcript extraction, xan, a powerful Rust-based CSV processor, and the benefits of using Go instead of Bash for scripting, including portability, reliability, and strong typing for efficient and error-free scripts.

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