• Bonus Drop #81 (2025-04-06): Bonus²

    This weekend Bonus Drop discusses DuckDB’s integration with dbt for effective data transformation, enhancing workflows with features like spatial functions and reverse ETL. It also highlights shell command efficiency improvement tools and introduces Ollamacommit for generating Git commit messages locally, improving privacy and workflow for developers.


  • Drop #633 (2025-04-04): Friday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s theme-less Drop showcases Hollama, a user-friendly web interface for LLMs; Tactile Vega-Lite, which enhances accessibility in data visualization for blind users; and Pussh, a parallel SSH tool for managing commands across multiple servers.


  • Drop #631 (2025-03-31): Happy [Belated] BoothDay To You

    Today’s Drop covers three significant topics: Charles Booth’s transformative social research on urban poverty through innovative mapping, the alarming expansion of aggressive immigration enforcement under the Trump administration causing widespread disappearances, and a vital NIH grant termination tracker promoting transparency and accountability amid funding cuts. Each emphasizes the power of individual initiative and data in…


  • Bonus Drop #80 (2025-03-30): Shameless

    The Weekend [Shameless] Bonus Drop showcases a spiffy accessible color palette generator, a project that will help turn the “news” into a research corpus, and some updates on various personal projects.


  • Drop #627 (2025-03-25): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop covers Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, introduces. Hyperglot, and showcases the Kyiv Type Foundry.


  • Drop #626 (2025-03-24): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop discusses Djot, a new markup language enhancing Markdown’s capabilities, and Bean CMS, a minimal content management system built on redbean. It also outlines a “Clean Slate Protocol” to remove ⭐️’d GH repos.


  • Drop #625 (2025-03-20): I’ll Be RFCing You In All The Old Familiar Standards

    Today’s Drop visits three recent RFCs. RFC 9755, which enables UTF-8 support in IMAP4rev1 for international characters. RFC 9745 which introduces a standardized Deprecation header for APIs to inform users about endpoint lifecycle effectively; and, RFC 9748 which enhances NTP registries to improve security in time synchronization protocols.


  • Drop #624 (2025-03-19): Into The [AT]proto-Verse

    Today’s Drop explores ATproto-verse & shows how to build custom records w/only Bash/curl. It highlights the atmo.lol URL shortener, & takes a first stab at analyzing the current extent of the tangled.sh universe.


  • Drop #623 (2025-03-18): Typography^WResistance Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the drop tells the stories of three typefaces: VTC Garibaldi, VTC Ruby, and VTC Tatsuro. Each is designed to inspire hope and resistance.


  • Drop #619 (2025-03-11): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric Drop highlights Mixfont, a font generator for visualizing typeface pairings; Words of Type, a multilingual encyclopedia providing expert typography terms and community access; and Fleckled, a digital archive preserving letterpress fonts for modern designers, emphasizing authenticity and handcrafted quality.