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Bonus Drop #131 (2026-10-17): Public Ads, Private Keys, and a Dead Language
The weekend Bonus Drop highlights AdMap, a searchable archive of American political video advertisements from 1952–2026, and announces Chromium’s planned removal of XSLT due (ostensibly) to security risks. It also features Obel Mono Masked, a clever font that visually hides API keys during screen sharing while emphasizing that the underlying text remains fully accessible.
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Drop #790 (2026-11-02): Monday Morning Grab Bag
Today’s Drop showcases the file-hosting service Catbox and its relation to cybersecurity risks, particularly its misuse by attackers. It also introduces Geist Serif, a new typeface from Vercel, and zpq, a lightweight Parquet engine designed for efficient data processing.
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Drop #788 (2026-10-20): Ink & Insert Mode
Today’s Drop features Lilly, a terminal editor inspired by Vim, Sumi.css, a classless CSS framework for efficient styling, and Tegaki, a library that animates fonts in handwriting style.
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Drop #787 (2026-10-19): Monday Morning Grab Bag
Today’s Drop showcases the Nordwand Mono monospace coding font, the brand new, 0-dep Pele JS library for rendering diagrams, and the restored online Safety Sign Generator tool.
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Drop #786 (2026-10-13): Tuesday Morning Grab Bag
Today’s Drop discusses modern browser fingerprinting techniques, the State of Devs survey for 2026, and the need for simpler web development practices. It highlights concerns about job insecurity and burnout among developers, mixed feelings about AI, and critiques the overly complex web development processes. A humorous site emphasizes returning to basic HTML.
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Bonus Drop #130 (2026-10-11): Hodepodge Edition
The weekend Bonus Drop tries to make up for the Drop gap and discusses various updates, including the transition of the main rud[.]is blog to an Astro 7 static site and new features in Bootstrap version 6. It features a free font, Paper Mono, and reflects on Deno being acquired by Cloudflare, highlighting the challenges…
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Drop #783 (2026-08-27): Back In The Highlight Again
The is-there-really-another-in-week-Drop?! showcases MicroLighter, an innovative syntax highlighter that enhances code editing while preserving the DOM; HTML advancements including new attributes that reduce JavaScript reliance; and Manuel Matuzović’s updated HTML Boilerplate for 2026, which offers comprehensive templates with modern features for web development.
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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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Drop #778 (2026-05-05): Typography Tuesday
Today’s sleep-deprived-originated Typography Tuesday features Lilex, a ligature-enhanced font, and D.I.Y. ’75, a typewriter font derived from 1970s fanzine materials. It also highlights FontBob’s interactive game that teaches type design through hands-on practice, encouraging users to create and optically correct their own alphabets.
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