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  • Drop #788 (2026-10-20): Ink & Insert Mode

    Today’s Drop features Lilly, a terminal editor inspired by Vim, Sumi.css, a classless CSS framework for efficient styling, and Tegaki, a library that animates fonts in handwriting style.

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  • Drop #787 (2026-10-19): Monday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop showcases the Nordwand Mono monospace coding font, the brand new, 0-dep Pele JS library for rendering diagrams, and the restored online Safety Sign Generator tool.

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  • Drop #786 (2026-10-13): Tuesday Morning Grab Bag

    Today’s Drop discusses modern browser fingerprinting techniques, the State of Devs survey for 2026, and the need for simpler web development practices. It highlights concerns about job insecurity and burnout among developers, mixed feelings about AI, and critiques the overly complex web development processes. A humorous site emphasizes returning to basic HTML.

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  • Bonus Drop #130 (2026-10-11): Hodepodge Edition

    The weekend Bonus Drop tries to make up for the Drop gap and discusses various updates, including the transition of the main rud[.]is blog to an Astro 7 static site and new features in Bootstrap version 6. It features a free font, Paper Mono, and reflects on Deno being acquired by Cloudflare, highlighting the challenges…

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  • Drop #783 (2026-08-27): Back In The Highlight Again

    The is-there-really-another-in-week-Drop?! showcases MicroLighter, an innovative syntax highlighter that enhances code editing while preserving the DOM; HTML advancements including new attributes that reduce JavaScript reliance; and Manuel Matuzović’s updated HTML Boilerplate for 2026, which offers comprehensive templates with modern features for web development.

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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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  • Drop #777 (2026-02-27): It’s Always DNS

    It’s all about DNS in today’s Drop! Geoff Huston developed ipasn.net, a user-friendly DNS-based IP-to-ASN lookup service that avoids complex query formatting. Hickory DNS is a Rust-native implementation, addresses memory safety issues in traditional DNS stacks, with future production plans by Let’s Encrypt. And Miek Gieben’s revised Go DNS library boasts significant performance enhancements, optimizing…

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  • Drop #774 (2026-02-19): Secured, Saved, Savvied, and Sublimed

    Today’s theme-less Drop discusses 4 topics: dotenvx, an enhanced .env management tool that improves security and multi-environment support; factbook.json, a project preserving the CIA World Factbook as structured JSON; and alpinestuff, a resource for learning Alpine.JS. Kanso Ink is also mentioned, offering terminal theme configurations.

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  • Drop #773 (2026-02-17): Typography Tuesday

    Today’s typography-focused drop features three highlights: M PLUS 1 Code, an open-source programming font from Japan known for its monospaced Latin and CJK support; FontPlop, apps for converting TTF/OTF fonts to web formats; and Font Gauntlet, a browser tool for proofing and animating variable fonts with local caching.

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  • Bonus Drop #110 (2026-02-14): Talk About The Weather

    Today’s Drop discusses three tools: Kaku, a macOS WezTerm fork enhancing ergonomics; Pake, a Tauri tool creating cross-platform desktop apps from URLs; and Fair Weather, a vanilla JS weather app scoring activities based on conditions.

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