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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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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 (2026-02-19): 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 #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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Drop #767 (2026-02-04): If It Walks Like A…
Today’s make-up Drop discusses two new #DuckDB community extensions: duckdb_mcp, which integrates SQL with Model Context Protocol servers for advanced data analysis, and dns, enabling versatile DNS lookups. Additionally, DuckDB has enhanced its logging capabilities to support detailed debugging across multiple log types, improving usability and troubleshooting efficiency.
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Drop #765 (2026-01-30): Stashing Commands, Parsing the Future
The Friday Drop covers cli-stash, a Bubble Tea-based micro-TUI for managing shell commands efficiently, and llparse with llhttp, a TypeScript-based parser generator.
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