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  • Bonus Drop #129 (2026-09-27): We Are The Borg

    The weekend Bonus Drop discusses implementing offsite backups for self-hosted bare Git repositories using Hetzner’s storage boxes and Borg Backup. It emphasizes the importance of ensuring reliable backups, describing Borg’s deduplication and encryption features, and detailing the chosen backup configuration and retention strategy while promoting interaction on social media for further assistance.

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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 #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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  • Bonus Drop #123 (2026-07-19): Am I Bot Or Not?

    The Weekend Bonus Drip explores the evolving bot landscape, focusing on the Known Agents directory that tracks over 2,000 AI crawlers and scrapers. It highlights recent regulatory changes, like New York’s Stealth Crawler Act and EDPB guidelines, which emphasize crawler identification for compliance. Additionally, it discusses post-quantum TLS as a new bot detection method.

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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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  • 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 #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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