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Drop #788 (2026-10-20): Ink & Insert Mode
Today’s Drop features Lilly, a terminal editor inspired by Vim, Sumi.css, a classless CSS framework for efficient styling, and Tegaki, a library that animates fonts in handwriting style.
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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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Bonus Drop #127 (2026-08-16): Weekend Grab Bag
The almost-too-late Bonus Drop discusses the benefits of creating bare repositories for independence from GitHub, introduces F2 as a powerful tool for file [re]organization, and highlights Organic Maps as a tracking-free alternative for navigation, emphasizing privacy concerns.
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Bonus Drop #112 (2026-04-12): The Drops Are (Mostly) Back!
The first Bonus Drop in quite a while has some seekrit updates and a new method for setting up S3-object storage at home using Versity S3 Gateway and Tailscale, detailing installation steps and configurations for enhanced security and accessibility.
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Drop #769 (2026-02-09): Mostly Mail And Meetings
Today’s Drop discusses two tools in the Google Workspace ecosystem: gog, a CLI that simplifies API access for Gmail and other services + msgvault, a local Gmail archiver enabling offline analysis using DuckDB; It also covers duckdb-oast, a community extension for analyzing OAST domains.
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Drop #768 (2026-02-05): Docs & Diagrams
Today’s Drop covers the release of Pandoc 3.9, whcih features a WASM build for client-side document processing, enhanced PDF support and configuration flexibility with JSON. It also pokes at mermaid-rs-renderer, a Rust-based tool for rendering Mermaid diagrams in various formats, and introduces Pretty Mermaid Skills which allows LLMs to generate and render Mermaid syntax into…
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Drop #753 (2026-01-05): Monday Morning Grab Bag
Today’s Drop discusses advancements in scrollytelling using CSS rather than JavaScript, the CSVW/FDP standards for enhancing CSV files with structured metadata, and Craig Silverman’s new OSINT media venture, Indicator, aimed at teaching verification skills amid rising disinformation.
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Drop #751 (2026-01-02): Fool Around And Find Out Friday
The Friday Drop covers: lint-http, a Rust-based forward proxy tool for analyzing HTTP traffic; a Cooked.wiki FOSS alternative along with the challenges food blogs face due to AI and LLMs in recipe content; and Columnar’s predictions for data infrastructure in 2026, focusing on Apache Arrow’s growth and the need for improved interoperability and accessibility in…
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Drop #746 (2025-12-26): Boxing Day Grab Bag
Today’s Drop discusses three main topics: mq, a Rust-based Markdown processing tool designed for structured data transformations; UBLOCKAI, a comprehensive blocklist of AI-generated content to enhance search engine results; and Friendly SQL, a guide featuring innovative SQL techniques for data manipulation in DuckDB.
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Drop #734 (2025-11-20): Fast And Powerful
Today’s Drop discusses three “fast & powerful” tools: hl, hk, and MPD. hl is a command-line tool for formatting and exploring logs quickly, hk is a high-performance Git hook manager that runs tasks in parallel to enhance Git workflows, and MPD is a music player daemon providing seamless audio management across multiple clients.
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