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Bonus Drop #129 (2026-09-27): We Are The Borg
The weekend Bonus Drop discusses implementing offsite backups for self-hosted bare Git repositories using Hetzner’s storage boxes and Borg Backup. It emphasizes the importance of ensuring reliable backups, describing Borg’s deduplication and encryption features, and detailing the chosen backup configuration and retention strategy while promoting interaction on social media for further assistance.
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Drop #786 (2026-09-20): zsh Modules
The weekend Drop is all about a feature of Zsh you are likely using, but not aware you are, and how you can use it to robustify your shell game: zsh modules. You’ll learn how to wield them well and improve performance of your scripts, tap into Zsh’s networking capabilities, and even use it to…
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Drop #785 (2026-09-14): Monday Morning Grab Bag
In today’s Drop, we cover Homebrew 7.0.0 — parallel installs, native brew vulns scanning, Linux Landlock sandboxing, Intel Macs demoted to Tier 3 — plus my new brew-sploits wrapper that flags which CVEs actually have public exploits, and a shell script beefer-upper-er and forensics tour of stat, readlink, command, file, ldd, and friends for answering…
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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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