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  • Drop #660 (2025-06-04): Cyber Cyber Cyber 👨🏼‍🍳 🤖

    Today’s Drop is 100% focused on CyberChef👨🏼‍🍳! CyberChef is an intuitive browser-based tool for data manipulation and cryptography, allowing users to create recipes for data transformations effortlessly. The CyberChef Server offers a RESTful API for automated operations, while the CyberChef MCP server enables AI agents to perform tasks autonomously, enhancing data analysis capabilities. Explore these…

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  • Bonus Drop #84 (2025-05-31): Shop^w Infer Local With Context

    Today’s Bonus Drop discusses the integration of an MCP server within a local Ollama workflow for improved contextual inference. It emphasizes the importance of model selection, particularly favoring qwen2.5-coder for its performance and context handling. The MCP paradigm enhances modularity and flexibility, streamlining tool calling processes while maintaining conversation state effectively. Includes links to working…

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  • Drop #654 (2025-05-16): Fool Around And Find Out Friday

    Today’s Drop highlights three spiffy tools: uchū offers a modern color palette for web design, emphasizing usability and flexibility; evildeno showcases Deno’s capabilities in offensive security operations, illustrating various attack techniques; and ThumbHash generates efficient image placeholders, enhancing website speed and user experience.

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  • Drop #649 (2025-05-05): A Python State Of Mind

    Today’s Drop discusses 3 Python (yes…*python*) projects: Docling, a library focused on accurate document processing; Notary, which generates badges to verify the provenance of Python packages on PyPI; and CVE Search MCP, a server for querying CVE data. Each serves distinct roles in enhancing software reliability and security.

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  • Drop #648 (2025-05-02): Happy FridAI!

    Today’s Drop discusses the integration of MCP protocol with AI tools like llama3.2, oterm, Context7, and Zed AI to enhance coding assistance and information retrieval. It emphasizes MCP’s role in structured data interaction, Context7’s up-to-date documentation for better coding accuracy, and Zed AI’s robust features, highlighting the evolution and benefits of these technologies in AI-assisted…

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  • Drop #644 (2025-04-28): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop covers Wave, a versatile terminal combining command-line and graphical features with AI integration; Geolocus, an open IP geolocation database offering physical and logical location data; and Lichen, a Rust-based tool for managing software license files and headers. Each tool aims to enhance productivity and accessibility.

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  • Drop #640 (2025-04-17): Twisted Topics Thursday

    Today’s Drop discusses MotherDuck’s #DuckDB Model Context Protocol server with a walk through a look at my sensor network data. It further highlights the rise of automated bots, which now constitute 51% of web traffic, and, lastly, emphasizes the privacy concerns surrounding modern web browsers’ telemetry practices.

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  • Drop #635 (2025-04-09): Happy WednesdAI!

    Today’s “AI”-centric edition of the Drop focuses on the “Model Context Protocol” (MCP). This new, standardized integration system for LLM/GPT-ops enhances data connectivity and addresses prior fragmentation. However, it significantly lacks security measures, making it vulnerable to command injection and tool poisoning. Practical examples, including a Star Wars API implementation, highlight MCP’s potential while also…

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  • Bonus Drop #77 (2025-02-23): Hidden Agendas

    The weekend Bonus Drop showcases how to encode hidden data within Unicode characters, the Atlas of Surveillance which documents law enforcement technologies, and a crowdsourced Project 2025 “progress” tracker.

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  • Bonus Drop #74 (2025-02-02): It’s Been A Long Week

    Today’s pseudo-Bonus Drop slings your way systemd-nspawn, a lightweight containerization tool integrated with systemd, linuxpdf/doompdf; and 5 Calls, an advocacy app enabling folks to easily contact representatives for civic engagement.

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