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  • Drop #613 (2025-02-27): Let’s Get Visual

    Today’s Drop sports a timeline visualizing the evolution of Unix shells, the rDNS Map project mapping the IPv4 space using ClickHouse, and a digital recreation of Moses Harris’ 1766 color theory work.

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  • Drop #612 (2025-02-25): Typopgraphy Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop features Tendrilis, a script replacing the Latin alphabet with vine-like characters. It also takes a look at the serif revolution, and features two “instrumental” (free) fonts.

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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 #76 (2025-02-16): I’m Sensing A Theme

    The weekend Bonus Drop has a concise overview of the Rosé Pine and Catppuccin theme suites, and introduces a tutorial on creating JavaScript-free scroll progress indicators using modern CSS techniques.

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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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  • Drop #598 (2025-01-24): Development Distractions

    Today’s Drop features Fixi.js—a compact hypermedia control framework beneficial for inline editing, search interfaces, and lazy loading with modern JavaScript features. There’s a new CSS attr() function in town, and we peek at how use it to work with all CSS properties for dynamic styles. And, the CSS Flexbox Playground let us to experiment with…

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  • Drop #589 (2025-01-10): In The Zone

    Today’s Drop features three resources from HTML.ZONE: WASM’d and webbed MarkItDown; Awesome Homelab, a curated directory for open-source applications in personal server experimentation; and Beauty.Codes, which allows customizable code screenshots and snippet management.

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  • Drop #588 (2025-01-09): ⚔️ Random Acts Of Violence

    Today’s violent Drop discusses the resurgence of the tag and its CSS recreation by Ted Unangst, along with two neat games: rpg-cli, a Rust-based tool gamifying shell operations into an RPG experience, and Rogule, a daily browser-based, roguelike game.

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  • Drop #587 (2025-01-07): (Tardy) Typography Tuesday

    Today’s (tardy) typography-centric edition of the Drop discusses kinetic typography, a technique that animates text to express ideas through motion, and the Fast Font typeface, which enhances reading speed by bolding word beginnings. It also introduces CSS’s text-wrap: balance property, improving visual text layouts by evenly distributing text across lines for better readability.

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  • Drop #586 (2025-01-06): Scroll Out The Barrel

    Today’s Drop is all about “scrolling”, just in very different contexts. Blogscroll is a curated directory of personal websites, the seekrit middle section is all about accessibility; and Scrollama is a JavaScript library for implementing scrollytelling features efficiently.

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