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  • Drop #519 (2024-08-22): Cache Me If You Can

    Today’s Drop discusses creating a lightweight internet research setup by integrating SearXNG, Jina, and a small Go program to provide a caching layer for search results. SearXNG is a self-hostable metasearch engine, while Jina’s Reader endpoint converts URLs to Markdown. Through a combined CLI, we can preview search results in the terminal and access cached…

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  • Bonus Drop #58 (2024-08-18): One-Thing Well

    The weekend Bonus Drop features 3 projects, sfeed, gen-license, and gitnx. Each excel at specific functions. sfeed offers command-line tools for processing RSS and Atom feeds, gen-license generates software licenses through a simple command, and gitnr creates .gitignore files using templates from various sources.

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  • Drop #518 (2024-08-16): Clean As A Whistle

    The demand for SSDs is spiking due to AI infrastructure needs. To avoid the price hike, try cleaning up your existing storage! Today’ Drop explores tools like kondo for automatic artifact removal, sn for faster directory processing, and dust for a visual representation of disk usage. These tools can free up significant space in various…

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  • Drop #517 (2024-08-15): Thursdataday

    Three data-focused resources are featured in today’s Drop. “committed” offers lightweigth, remote monitoring of GitHub repository commits, “sq” enables query and manipulation across various structured data sources, and “CSVs Are Kinda Bad” proposes replacing CSV with DSV for improved data handling and parsing.

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  • Drop #513 (2024-08-08): TUI Thursday

    Today’s Drop covers three terminal user interface (TUI) tools! “oatmeal” is a clean interface for chatting with large language models, “discovery-rs” monitors multicast DNS services, and “otree” navigates JSON, TOML, and YAML files.

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  • Drop #512 (2024-08-07): The One With All The JSON Resources

    Today’s Drop features Janice, a cross-platform app for navigating JSON files; json.bash, a Bash library for creating JSON structures; and TickTick, a Bash library for transforming JSON into Bash variables.

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  • Bonus Drop #56 (2024-08-03): Knowledge Drop

    In today’s Knowledge Drop, we take a look at Vitale: a new TypeScript/JavaScript notebook system focusing on moldable development, enabling rapid feedback and supporting interactive React component development, data wrangling, and more.

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  • Drop #509 (2024-08-01): SQL Shenanigans

    Today’s Drop has some unique ways to use SQL ops in unconventional data sources through various tools. “pickaxe” allows SQL operations for web scraping’ “fselect” & “fsql” enables running SQL over the filesystem; and, “shellfs” is a DuckDB extension allowing shell command execution within SQL queries.

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  • Drop #508 (2024-07-31): Wild, Wild, Wednesday

    The Drop is caught up to Wed! Trail of Bits conducted a security audit of Homebrew, uncovering some concerns including executable code vulnerabilities and CI/CD issues. We look at the highlights in the Drop and shunt readers to the completel report for more details. I expanded my Mastodon-thread of the initial features of Apple Intelligence…

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  • Drop #506 (2024-07-29): Content-Type: text/html/markdown

    The super-tardy Monday Drop introduces the “url-knife” JavaScript library for manipulating plaintext and XML/HTML contents, as well as a “Gather CLI” tool for converting web URLs to Markdown documents, particularly useful for note-taking and RAG

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