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Drop #784 (2026-09-07): What The Shell?
Today’s Drop discusses useful tools for Bash scripting and terminal operations. It goes deep on the ‘declare’ command in Bash, explaining its various attributes for variable assignment. Additionally, it presents ‘rura,’ an interactive Rust terminal UI for building shell pipelines, and ‘mdfried,’ a terminal pager for viewing markdown files that supports enhanced formatting and image…
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Drop #782 (2026-08-26): Catechize, Complete, & Count
Today’s Drop discusses three neat CLI tools to enhance shell skills, tame code, and manage system processes. Witr identifies the lineage of running processes; zcomplete corrects shell commands based on typed command history; and, scc provides efficient line counting for codebases while offering analytical features like complexity assessments.
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Drop #781 (2026-08-25): Tuesday Morning Grab Bag
Today’s Drop highlights a few recent discoveries: Deepfield IP Checker, HTML-XML-utils, and MapTheNet. It describes how Deepfield’s IP Checker reveals if an IP has participated in DDoS attacks, while HTML-XML-utils provides utilities to manipulate HTML/XML files. MapTheNet explores web traffic through a unique classification approach.
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Bonus Drop #128 (2026-08-23): It’s Always DNS
The weekend Bonus Drop discusses several advanced DNS resources, focusing on ptrclassify, which categorizes IP addresses efficiently using structured tagging for traffic analysis. It introduces the new HTTPS DNS record type that enhances HTTP/3 connectivity and touches on dnstt, a tool for DNS tunneling.
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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 #125 (2026-08-02): The Dog Days Of Dotfiles
The Weekend Bonus Drop covers the repository “awesome-bash-alias”, which features an extensive README w/over 2,100 lines outlining advanced shell aliases & functions. It emphasizes safe, cross-platform usage, w/modules covering various tasks like file management and container commands. Notably, it includes confirmation mechanisms for destructive actions, promoting careful command usage throughout.
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Bonus Drop #123 (2026-07-19): Am I Bot Or Not?
The Weekend Bonus Drip explores the evolving bot landscape, focusing on the Known Agents directory that tracks over 2,000 AI crawlers and scrapers. It highlights recent regulatory changes, like New York’s Stealth Crawler Act and EDPB guidelines, which emphasize crawler identification for compliance. Additionally, it discusses post-quantum TLS as a new bot detection method.
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Bonus Drop #122 (2026-07-12): Web Of Wonders
Today’s (barely in-time) Drop discusses web resources like Vilistextum, an enduring HTML-to-ASCII converter, and Freedium Mirror, which circumvents Medium’s paywall. The “Milliseconds That Matter” section showcases a project that visualizes the web page loading process in detail.
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Bonus Drop #115 (2026-05-03): Terminal Velocity
The latest (and, hopefully final only- Bonus Drop) showcases a cadre of terminal emulators, highlighting their unique features and technologies. It covers OpenWarp, Macterm, rootshell, Rio, and Foot, each with distinct attributes related to performance, design, and underlying technology. The author discusses usability for different systems, emphasizing safety and configurations while noting trends toward AI…
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Bonus Drop #113 (2026-04-19): A Safety Throughline
Managed to crank out another Bonus Drop after a firehose of an onboarding week @ Censys. Today, we’ve got Kula, a Linux server monitoring tool that emphasizes security with deliberate mitigation measures. Also: SSH certificates improve key management, addressing the flaws of public key systems. Finally, an iTerm2 bug demonstrates vulnerabilities in terminal emulators, highlighting…
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