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The Daily Drop: One Year On; Choose Your Own Mad Libs; Javascript and the next decade of data programming I had intended to hit the first anniversary of The Daily Drop pretty hard with stats, prospects, and a whole cadre of “Thank You”’s to, well, you! However, Whoop informed me that I made it into…

devdocs.io; Perplexity; Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS Programming note: I neglected to inform Bonus Drop receivers in advance of the hiatus this past weekend (food/fam engagements ate the remaining spare time), so that means I’ll find time intra-week for some extra crunchy goodness for y’all. devdocs.io This past weekend, as I was dishing out culinary…

gh-eco / gh-dash; Extended Prompts; Extensive (List Of) Quarto Extensions Sure, we acquire or use a tool, app, or utility for what it can directly do for us, but every so often you need just a bit more from it that — by itself — it cannot do. Luckily, allowing third-party components to extend the…

A taste of Vanilla JS topped with DuckDB all in a Vite shell We’ve been keeping tabs on DuckDB since the early days of The Drop, and I finally indulged in a recent experiment (GH) that is not-at-all (really) tied to WebR. This means I can justify pointing to it, along with some extra commentary…

CartoSVG; Placemark; SOZip We haven’t poked at maps 🗺️ in a while, so today we’ll start this Drop’s journey by navigating a path to two neat and free/freemium resources that help you make great maps without any programming skills. We’ll finish at a destination that may seem, at first glance, to not fit in with…

404 Not Found; Location, location, location; Caddy-Tailscale Today is April 4, making it “404” day1, so we’ll start off with some light discourse on, example of, and guidance for the dreaded “resource not found”, followed by some nginx location tip/tricks, and a neat new Caddy plugin by Tailscale. 404 Not Found As you no doubt…

trurl; aicmd; Splendid R Games I usually spend a portion of the weekend curating the Drop topics for the week, but I was way more distracted with WebR stuff than I usually am. I try not to use the Drops to pimp my own kit, so I’m not dropping any links, but if you watch…

Eleventy; Penthouse/Critical CSS There’s no foolin’ the next-level supporters of the Drop! Meaning: I deliberately avoided posting the Bonus Drop yesterday, lest have ye wondering if any given topic was duplicitous or faithful. Portions of non-Drop activities have leaked their way into these newsletters, including today’s. As I was creating my most recent web-centric WebR…

Gettin’ Graph-y With It While I have no doubt some percentage of Drop readers have explored the world of graph databases and may even use them as a daily driver, or at least in some task-specific ways. However, my Spidey-sense suggests that many of you are like me, and lean into rectangular data way more…

briefsky; Weather Spark; Innovative Wx Views Where I abide, Spring is finally upon us. While we still have a few plowed snow mounds decorating parking lot corners and light posts, it is most certainly an advent of allergy season. I’ve run my own personal weather station since I was a wee lad, and consider myself…