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Drop #708 (2025-09-11): Toss-Up Thursday
More is less, in today’s Drop since it’s most-ly featuring pagers, SQL tutorials, and a bonkers number of drop-in CSS themes to make you looks like a CSS, SQL, and terminal genius.
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Bonus Drop #97 (2025-09-07): Bridging, Building & Browsing
The Bonus Drop discusses the transition from Inoreader to FreshRSS, highlighting RSS-Bridge as a tool to convert websites into RSS feeds. It explores using SmolLM3 for named-entity recognition, and reviews Flow, a Chromium-based browser considered as a potential alternative to Arc after its acquisition by Atlassian.
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Drop #705 (2025-09-05): If It Walks Like A 🦆…
Today’s 🦆 Drop showcases DuckDB’s capabilities for processing NGINX logs and integrating with Observable Notebooks 2.0 for interactive SQL querying. It also introduces the Textplot extension for real-time visualizations in #DuckDB SQL queries.
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Bonus Drop #95 (2025-08-24): Vibe-less Coding; Vibe-ful Checking
The weekend Bonus Drop emphasizes the importance of security for vibe or vibe-less personal web apps, highlighting key strategies such as SSRF protection, rate limiting, robust CSRF tokens, & more. It also provides a plethora of prompts to help you infuse security into your vibe-coded creations.
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Drop #675 (2025-07-03): drop –upgrade
Today’s Drop features three kind-of-major updates to some froody FOSS. Deno 2.4 enhances developer experience with features like raw imports, OpenTelemetry integration, and improved Node.js compatibility; SQLite marks its 25th anniversary with performance upgrades like the sqlite3_rsync feature for faster sync; and, Ligolo-ng v0.8 introduces a web interface for collaborative tunneling, supporting multiple users effectively.
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Drop #672 (2025-06-27): If It Walks Like A…
We have another 🦆-billed Drop today, featuring: DuckPlot — an open-source JavaScript library for generating charts from DuckDB with automatic SQL generation; The mcp-visualization-duckdb package, which allows users to create visualizations through natural language queries, bypassing SQL; & DuckDB-QuickJS which integrates a JavaScript engine for flexible data processing within SQL, enhancing DuckDB’s analytical capabilities.
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Drop #669 (2025-06-23): Monday Morning (Barely) Grab Bag
The Monday Drop discusses 3 main topics: a Rube Goldberg-inspired data pipeline to archive X posts into #DuckDB, the #RStats package {fplot} for automating distribution plot creation in R, and an article from CSS-Tricks on advanced CSS color techniques, detailing color spaces and models for modern web development.
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Bonus Drop #86 (2025-06-15): I Think You May Be Projecting
The Weekend Bonus Drop covers two data engineering projects utilizing #DuckDB. The first project improves rock-climbing trip planning by integrating climbing routes with precise weather forecasts. The second project organizes Garmin activity data into a clean database. Both exemplify real-world engineering challenges for personal projects, emphasizing practical problem-solving and hands-on learning in data management.
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Drop #658 (2025-06-02): The [Duck] Lake House
Today’s Drop has a primer on data lakes and features DuckLake, which introduces a novel lakehouse architecture from the DuckDB folks that separates data management into three layers: storage, metadata, and computation. Using a database for metadata enhances performance and consistency, addressing issues present in traditional lakehouses. This design supports ACID transactions, schema evolution, and…
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Drop #656 (2025-05-26): A Different Kind Of Memor[y|ial] Day
Today’s Drop emerges from a brutal travel/work week for a Memor[y|ial] focused issue that takes a peek at the DuckDB 1.3.0 release, which enhances data analysis with external file caching, improving performance by 75%, and introduces recursive query functionality for complex data structures. It further showcases jOOQ enables type-safe SQL queries in Java/Kotlin and features…
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