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  • 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…

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Drop #618 (2025-03-10): Nothin’ But Bluesky

    Today’s thematic Drop features “The Blue Report,” which analyzes trending links on Bluesky using a scoring formula. It also explores the AT Protocol’s applications, emphasizing practical development. And, it introduces a study by Quelle and Bovet examines Bluesky’s network, revealing a left-center political bias and similarities to traditional social media, despite its decentralized nature. It…

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  • Drop #617 (2025-03-07): Themeless

    The Friday Drop highlights Xit, an experimental version control system built in Zig, and advocates for the use of text labels to improve user interface clarity. It also showcases a creative interpretation of the “Bad Apple” animation using SSH key randomart images.

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