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  • Drop #595 (2025-01-21): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric version fo the Drop explores the term “Book” weight in typography, rooted in German nomenclature, but has led to confusion in its application, especially during the ITC era. Ohno Type Co. has developed Degular and Degular Mono typefaces for versatile design use, while Berkeley Mono 2.0 continues to evolve, providing options for modern…

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  • Drop #594 (2025-01-20): Tidying Up

    Today’s Drop discusses various technology topics, including misconceptions about Xiaohongshu’s “backdoor” , the dangers of malicious Google Ads mimicking legitimate software, enhancements for accessing Cooked.Wiki, and urgent Vite development server upgrades to address critical security vulnerabilities affecting older versions.

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  • Bonus Drop #72 (2025-01-10): What Comes Next

    The weekend Bonus Drop discusses various resources and thoughts to navigate challenges in democracy and engagement over the next few years. Andrea Pitzer’s podcast “Next Comes What” explores historical contexts of democracy, while the “If You Can Keep It” newsletter emphasizes local involvement in democratic processes. Additionally, Barbara Kruger’s digital work inspires creativity amidst these…

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  • Drop #593 (2025-01-16): WASSSSMM UP?!

    Today’s Drop focuses on WebAssembly (WASM) resources: “Water,” a web-based fluid simulation using SIMD support; wasmCloud, enabling portable application modules for distributed systems; and TinyWeb, a minimal Rust framework for client-side web apps that directly integrates with JavaScript.

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  • Drop #592 (2025-01-15): In Living Color

    Today’s colorful drop features Flexoki, a color scheme for coding and prose; the “Definitive Ranking of Pantone Colors of the Year”, and. Colorify Rocks’ tools for discovering harmonious color combinations, emphasizing accessibility through various free resources.

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  • Drop #591 (2025-01-14): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop pulls out the legal pad to scribble some prose about the intricate world of font licensing. It also celebrates `womxn` designers in typography, and showcases an elegant font family from a featured collection.

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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 #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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  • Bonus Drop #71 (2025-01-05): A ‘Flare’ For The Dramatic

    The 2025 inaugural Bonus Drop discusses Cap’n Proto—a high-performance data interchange format—and Cloudflare’s workerd, which enables running serverless functions using Cap’n Proto files. It also gives the lo-down on Cloudflare Workers AI, which offers free access to AI models via REST APIs, providing a foundation for deploying AI-powered applications easily.

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