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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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Bonus Drop #114 (2026-04-26): Let’s Get Visual
Seeing is believing in the weekend Bonus Drop! Posit has launched an alpha version of ggsql, a SQL syntax extension for visualizations, allowing folks to create charts directly from SQL queries without additional programming languages. It utilizes database computation for efficiency and offers a clean interface for SQL practitioners. Additionally, chartli provides a CLI tool…
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Drop #776 (2026-02-25): Typography Tuesday
Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses the role of typography as a uniquely human design element amidst an advancing “AI” landscape. It emphasizes that tools like “AI” struggle to replicate the nuance and cultural significance of human-crafted typefaces. Featured fonts include Television Sans, inspired by 1980s ads, and Sobremesa, designed for warmth and comfort.
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Drop #774 (2026-02-20): Let’s Get Visual
Today’s themed! Drop features 2 spiffy CSS resources and a rly cool tool. Modern CSS Code Snippets compares legacy and modern CSS patterns; ASCII Silhouettify converts images to ASCII art; and CSS Doodle is for creating generative art using CSS-like rules.
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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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