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  • Drop #630 (2025-03-28): Fool Around To Find Out Friday

    Today’s Drop discusses recent tools and experiments in document preparation and bookmarking. John Maxwell shares insights on Typst as a LaTeX alternative, highlighting its ease of use and integration with Pandoc. Additionally, Shaarli is introduced as a self-hosted bookmarking tool, while Shellfirm aids terminal command safety through verification prompts.

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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 #622 (2025-03-17): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop covers Plonk.li — a new gist service on the ATproto network, storing pastes in Personal Data Servers to enhance data portability; Nash — a portable web-based note-taking app without server dependencies, supporting various formatting options;; and highlights Arc Browser’s new integrated ad blocker.

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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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  • Bonus Drop #78 (2025-03-09): Knot Your Parents’ Social-Enabled Git Collaboration Platform

    The Weekend Bonus Drop features Tangled, a new decentralized platform for Git-based collaboration, designed to enhance social coding while ensuring data ownership and ease of entry. Built on the AT Protocol, it allows developers to create “knots” for hosting repositories. The platform emphasizes community governance, security, and user-friendly interactions within a decentralized environment.

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  • Drop #614 (2025-02-28): Friday Morning Grab Bag

    The Friday Drop discusses enhancing productivity through macOS tips, the introduction of SmallJS as a modern web development tool inspired by Smalltalk, and emphasizes the significance of digital preservation tools

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  • Drop #611 (2025-02-24): Status Symbols

    Today’s Drop reviews three monitoring solutions: Static Status, a Bash script for generating status pages; Vigil, a Rust-based microservice monitor with flexible notifications; and cState, a Hugo-based static site generator with incident management.

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  • Drop #608 (2025-02-19): Someone To Watch Over You[r Files]

    Watch out for today’s Drop on filesystem monitors! Chokidar 4.0 significantly updates the Node.js file watcher; Caretaker is a Rust-based tool for monitoring files with TOML config; and, Systemd.path units offer built-in filesystem monitoring.

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  • Drop #603 (2025-02-12): Suggest • Static • Search

    The Drop has returned after a hiatus, and we focus, today, on some tech that was partly responsible for said hiatus. Zed’s new beta Edit Predictions kicks coding efficiency up a few notches; Eleventy (11ty) facilitates data-driven site generation, and Pagefind offers robust static site search capabilities.

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  • Drop #601 (2025-01-30): Toss-Up Thursday

    Today’s Drop contains (heh) a section on alternatives to Docker, discusses JSON-e for embedding context in JSON objects and features Mercator Extreme, a unique map projection for visualizing geography.

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